Election Resources on the Internet:
Presidential and Legislative Elections in Chile, Part I
by Manuel Álvarez-Rivera
   

Two decades ago, the Republic of Chile began its transition to democracy when Chilean voters rejected extending the presidential mandate of General Augusto Pinochet in a referendum held on October 5, 1988. A succession of popularly elected, civilian regimes have ruled the South American country since 1990, but some aspects of Pinochet's authoritarian legacy persist to this day, most notably among them the binomial electoral system, which will be described in Part II of this presentation.

National- and regional-level results are available here for the following presidential and legislative elections:

      December 11, 2005-January 15, 2006       President       Senate       Chamber of Deputies      
      December 16, 2001               Senate       Chamber of Deputies      
      December 12, 1999-January 16, 2000       President                      
      December 11, 1997               Senate       Chamber of Deputies      
      December 11, 1993       President       Senate       Chamber of Deputies      
      December 14, 1989       President       Senate       Chamber of Deputies      

The election statistics presented in this space come from results published by the Interior Ministy's Historical Elections Site.

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