1989 Paraguayan general election

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1989 Paraguayan general election
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  1988 1 May 1989 1991  
Presidential election
  Andres Rodriguez Portrait.jpg Domingo Laino (cropped).jpg
Candidate Andrés Rodríguez Domingo Laíno
Party Colorado PLRA
Popular vote882,957241,829
Percentage76.59%20.98%

Resultados de las elecciones presidenciales de Paraguay de 1953-1989.svg
Results by department

President before election

Andrés Rodríguez
Colorado

President-elect

Andrés Rodríguez
Colorado

Parliamentary election

All 72 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
37 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
Colorado Andrés Rodríguez 74.4748+8
PLRA Domingo Laíno 20.1921New
PRF Fernando Sánchez 2.102New
Radical Liberal 1.321−12
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Early general elections were held in Paraguay on 1 May 1989 to elect the president and Chamber of Deputies. [1] They were the first held since longtime president Alfredo Stroessner was toppled in a military coup on 3 February, seven months after being sworn in for an eighth term. For the first time in several years, the opposition was allowed to contest the elections more or less unmolested; the Communists were the only party that was banned from taking part. [2] [3]

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Andrés Rodríguez, who had led the coup and had been serving as provisional president since then, was elected president in his own right [3] [2] running on the Colorado Party ticket. The Colorado Party also won 48 of the 72 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 52%.

The legislative elections were called after Rodríguez dissolved the previous Congress in February, citing a provision of the constitution that allowed the president to do so if they felt Congress had acted in a manner that distorted the separation of powers. Rodríguez used the new elections as a tool to purge pro-Stroessner "militants" from the Colorado caucus. The presidential elections were held because the constitution required new elections if a president died, resigned, or was permanently disabled less than two years into their term. That same provision stipulated that the winner would not serve a full five-year term, but only the remainder of the previous president's term. [3] In this case, Rodríguez won the right to serve the remainder of Stroessner's term, which was due to end in 1993.

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Andrés Rodríguez Colorado Party 882,95776.59
Domingo Laíno Authentic Radical Liberal Party 241,82920.98
Fernando Vera Sánchez  [ es ] Revolutionary Febrerista Party 11,0070.95
Secundino Núñez Medina Christian Democratic Party 8,0320.70
Carlos Ferreira Ibarra Liberal Party 4,4230.38
Blas Manuel Mangabeira Unified Radical Liberal Party 3,5450.31
Carlos Gustavo Callizo Parini Paraguayan Humanist Party 1,0580.09
Total1,152,851100.00
Valid votes1,152,85199.04
Invalid/blank votes11,1970.96
Total votes1,164,048100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,226,06152.29
Source: Justicia Electoral

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Colorado Party 845,82074.4748+8
Authentic Radical Liberal Party 229,32920.1921New
Revolutionary Febrerista Party 23,8152.102New
Radical Liberal Party 15,0831.331–12
Christian Democratic Party 11,6741.030New
Liberal Party 5,5440.490–7
Unified Radical Liberal Party 3,4760.310New
Paraguayan Humanist Party 1,0690.090New
Total1,135,810100.0072+12
Valid votes1,135,81098.10
Invalid/blank votes21,9711.90
Total votes1,157,781100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,226,06152.01
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p425 ISBN   978-0-19-928358-3
  2. 1 2 Nohlen, p416
  3. 1 2 3 History Library of Congress Country Studies