2013 Chilean presidential primaries

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Presidential primaries of the Alianza and Nueva Mayoría, 2013
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  Pablo Longueira Montes.jpg Andres Allamand Zavala.jpg
Candidate Pablo Longueira Andrés Allamand
Party UDI National Renewal
Alliance Alliance Alliance
Popular vote414,380392,221
Percentage51.37%48.63%
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Candidate Michelle Bachelet Andrés Velasco
Party Socialist Independent
Alliance New Majority New Majority
Popular vote1,561,563278,056
Percentage73.06%13.01%
  Claudio Orrego sobre fondo negro (Headshot).jpg Jose Antonio Gomez Urrutia, ministro de justicia (3).jpg
Candidate Claudio Orrego José Antonio Gómez
Party PDC Social Democrat Radical
Alliance New Majority New Majority
Popular vote189,582108,222
Percentage8.87%5.06%

The Chilean presidential primaries of 2013 were held in Chile on Sunday 30 June 2013. It was the first such election to be run by the government under a new primary law published in December 2012.

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According to the law, primaries are voluntary, but its results are binding. The two main political coalitions decided to participate: Former president Michelle Bachelet won the Nueva Mayoría primary with 73% of the vote, while former senator and minister Pablo Longueira won the Alianza primary with 51%.

Longueira withdrew on 17 July and was replaced by Evelyn Matthei, who had not participated in the primaries. Bachelet defeated Matthei in the runoff election held on 15 December 2013.

Candidates

Alianza candidates

Both candidates were officially registered on 1 May 2013. [1] Affiliates from both Alianza parties (RN and UDI) plus independent electors were allowed to vote.

CandidateRemarks
Andres Allamand.jpg
Andrés Allamand
(RN)		The former Minister of Defense said on 22 April 2012 that he was willing to participate with Laurence Golborne and Pablo Longueira (both also ministers) in a three-way primary. [2] He was proclaimed as candidate by his party on 6 November 2012. [3]
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Pablo Longueira
(UDI)		The Minister of Economy was proclaimed as his party's candidate minutes after the resignation of then candidate Laurence Golborne on 29 April 2013. He left his cabinet post a day later. [4]

Declined candidacy

Nueva Mayoría candidates

All four candidates were officially registered on 30 April 2013. [8] Affiliates from all Nueva Mayoría parties plus independent electors were allowed to vote.

CandidateRemarks
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Michelle Bachelet
(PS)		The former president from 2006 to 2010 declared her intention to run for the presidency on 27 March 2013 during an act in El Bosque Commune (a poor suburb of Santiago), a few hours after arriving from New York City, where she had been working as head of UN Women before quitting two weeks before. [9] On 7 April 2013 the Broad Social Movement (MAS) proclaimed Bachelet as their candidate. [10] On 13 April 2013 Bachelet was proclaimed by the PS and the PPD, [11] as agreed on in December 2012. [12] On 25 May 2013 both the Communist Party [13] and the Citizen Left movement [14] decided to support Bachelet's candidacy.
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José Antonio Gómez
(PRSD)		Current senator. He says he will compete in a Concertación primary as long as they are held in a transparent way. Otherwise he says he may run directly as president outside of the coalition. [15] On 30 June 2013 he was proclaimed by the PRSD as their pre-candidate for a Concertación primary. [16]
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Claudio Orrego
(PDC)
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PDC primary ballot.

A primary was held on 19 January 2013 to determine the Christian Democratic Party's pre-candidate for the presidency. This primary was organized by the party and not under the new primary law. The contenders were Claudio Orrego and Ximena Rincón. Orrego won the primary with 59% of the vote. [17]

  • Claudio Orrego, former minister and mayor, had said in January 2012 that he would seek reelection as mayor of Peñalolén in the October 2012 election, but that he did not rule out running for president. [18] However, on 3 March 2012 he launched his candidacy for the presidency. [19]
  • Ximena Rincón, senator, had expressed her willingness to compete in a Concertación primary during a television interview on 23 December 2011. [20]
Provisional results [21]
CandidateVotes%Result
Claudio Orrego 33,17559.2PDC candidate
Ximena Rincón 22,85340.8
Valid votes56,028100.0
Null and blank votes2350.4
Total votes56,263100.0
Andres Velasco.jpg
Andrés Velasco
(Ind.)		Former Finance Minister during President Michelle Bachelet's tenure. He said he was willing to compete in a Concertación primary only if Bachelet decides not to run for reelection. [22] In May 2012 he declared he had changed his mind and that now he would compete regardless of Bachelet's participation. [23] He officially launched his pre-candidacy on 16 November 2012. [24] On 2 May 2013, already registered to compete in primaries, he condemned the Nueva Mayoría pact for failing to register candidates for legislative primary elections and threatened to quit the competition and run directly in the November election. [25] On 6 May 2013 he backpedaled, after party leaders pledged to carry out legislative primary elections wherever there were more than two candidates. [26]

Primary results

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Primary ballot for independent electors.
Primary ballot for Nueva Mayoria-party affiliates. Cedula A Primarias Presidente 2013.png
Primary ballot for Nueva Mayoría-party affiliates.
Primary ballot for Alianza-party affiliates. Cedula B Primarias Presidente 2013.png
Primary ballot for Alianza-party affiliates.

Official and final results.

Ballot
number		CandidatePartyVotes %Result
(A) Nueva Mayoría primary
1 Michelle Bachelet PS 1,565,26973.07Nueva Mayoría candidate
2 José Antonio Gómez PRSD 108,3655.05
3 Claudio Orrego PDC 189,7528.85
4 Andrés Velasco Ind.278,68413.01
Total valid votes2,142,070100.00
(B) Alianza primary
5 Pablo Longueira UDI 415,08751.37Alianza candidate
6 Andrés Allamand RN 392,91548.62
Total valid votes808,002100.00
Total valid votes2,950,07297.98
Null votes45,9861.52
Blank votes14,8320.49
Total votes3,010,890100.00
Eligible voters13,307,18222.63% turnout
Voting age population13,087,16123.01% turnout

Source: Tricel via Servel.

Timeline

Michelle Bachelet casting her vote. Michelle Bachelet vota primarias 2013.jpg
Michelle Bachelet casting her vote.

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