1991 Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election

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1991 Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election
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  1989 1 December 1991 1993  

All 198 seats in the Constitutional Assembly
100 seats needed for a majority
PartyVote %Seats
Colorado Party 55.1122
Authentic Radical Liberal Party 27.055
Constitution for All 11.019
Revolutionary Febrerista Party 1.21
Christian Democratic Party 0.91
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Paraguay on 1 December 1991. [1] The result was a victory for the Colorado Party, which won 122 of the 198 seats. Voter turnout was 51.7%. [2]

Contents

Following the elections, a new constitution was promulgated in 1992. It reintroduced the position of Vice President and allowed for the President to be elected by a plurality of the vote. [3] It also limited the President to a single five-year term, with no possibility of re-election even if the incumbent had only served a partial term. This provision meant that incumbent Andrés Rodríguez would have had to leave office in 1993 even without his promise to not run for a full term. [4]

Electoral system

The 198 members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at two levels:

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Colorado Party 409,73055.1122
Authentic Radical Liberal Party 201,04027.055
Constitution for All 81,86011.019
Revolutionary Febrerista Party 9,0941.21
Christian Democratic Party 6,5480.91
Workers' Party 0.60
Paraguayan Humanist Party 0.50
People, Nation and Solidarity0.10
Total198
Total votes743,546
Registered voters/turnout1,438,54351.69
Source: Nohlen, TSJE

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p425 ISBN   978-0-19-928358-3
  2. Nohlen, p426
  3. Nohlen, p417
  4. Cesar Insfran (June 20, 1992). "Paraguay celebrates new constitution". United Press International.