Elections in Chile are held nationwide,including the presidency,parliament,regional offices,and municipal positions. Chilean citizens and foreign residents with legal residency of at least five years,who are 18 years or older on election day,are eligible to vote. Previously,voting was voluntary,but since 2023,it has become compulsory.
The Green Ecologist Party was a Chilean political party and one of South America's members of the global green movement.
General elections were held in Chile on 11 December 1993 to elect the President,members of the Chamber of Deputies and elected members of the Senate. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the Concertación alliance was elected president,and the alliance also won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and maintained its majority in the Senate. As of 2024,this is the most recent presidential election that did not result in a runoff.
General elections were held in Chile on Sunday 13 December 2009 to elect the president,all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 18 of the 38 members of the Senate were up for election. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote,a second round was held between the top two candidates—Sebastián Piñera and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle—on Sunday 17 January 2010. Piñera won the runoff with 52% of the vote and succeeded Michelle Bachelet on 11 March 2010.
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Chile a score of 66 on a scale from 0 to 100. When ranked by score,Chile ranked number 29 among the 180 countries in the Index,where the country ranked number 1 is perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison with worldwide scores,the best score was 90,the average score was 43,and the worst score was 11. For comparison with regional scores,the highest score among the countries of the Americas was 76,the average score was 43 and the lowest score was 13.
Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio is a Chilean-French,filmmaker,politician,and perennial candidate. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and ran for President of the Republic as independent,where he finished third with 20% of the vote. He is currently the leader of the Progressive Party,which he founded in 2010.
Jorge Félix Arrate Mac Niven is a Chilean lawyer,economist,writer and politician. He has been Minister of State in the governments of Chilean presidents Salvador Allende (1970–1973),Patricio Aylwin (1990–1994),and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1994–2000). A long-time member of the Socialist Party of Chile arrate was during much of the 1990s the leader of the eponymous Arratismo faction in the party. During the indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet (1998–2000) Arrate was positive to the prospect of Pinochet being judged abroad. Given that his was contrary to the government stance he was removed from his post as minister in June 1999. In 2009,he was appointed as candidate for president of Chile in representation of the political alliance Juntos Podemos Más and other leftist political movements,obtaining 6.21 percent of the total votes in the elections of that year.
The Coalition for Change was a presidential and parliamentary electoral coalition that groups the supporters of Sebastián Piñera for the 2009-10 Chilean presidential election. Its predecessor was the Alliance for Chile. The constituent parties are the Independent Democratic Union,National Renewal,ChileFirst,the movements Grand North,and Christian Humanism.
General elections were held in Chile on 17 November 2013 to elect the president,all 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies,20 of the 38 members of the Senate and 278 members of regional boards. All elected members would serve a four-year term,aside from the Senators would serve for eight years. All the newly elected authorities began their terms on 11 March 2014.
Rafael Gumucio Araya is a Chilean writer and comedian.
Franco Aldo Parisi Fernández is a Chilean business engineer and economist. He received recognition for doing radio and television programs about economy along with his brother Antonino Parisi,and has been nicknamed "the economist of the people". In 2012 he launched his independent candidacy for president for the 2013 elections in Chile. Parisi ideologically identifies himself as a social liberal. In November 2021 he reached the third place of votes in the first round of the presidential elections,behind JoséAntonio Kast and Gabriel Boric.
The MAS Region,known until 2014 as Broad Social Movement was a Chilean left-wing political party founded by Alejandro Navarro in 2008.
The Progressive Party was a political party in Chile. It was founded in 2010 by former Socialist deputy and presidential candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami. It is the political successor of the coalition New Majority for Chile.
General elections were held in Chile on 19 November 2017 to elect the president,all 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies,23 of the 43 members of the Senate and 278 members of regional boards. All elected members would serve a four-year term,aside from the senators would serve for eight years.
The presidential primaries of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia of 2009 were the method of election of the presidential candidate of such a Chilean coalition for the 2009 presidential election. Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle,former President of Chile (1994–2000),a member of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and candidate for his party,the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) and the Party for Democracy (PPD),and JoséAntonio Gómez,a militant and candidate of the Radical Social Democratic Party.
The presidential primaries of the Nueva Mayoría in 2013 were the method of election of the Chilean presidential candidate of the political parties Christian Democrat,Radical Social-Democrat,For Democracy,Socialist,Movimiento Amplio Social,Communist and Citizen Left and,in addition to the left-wing and center-left independents,grouped in the "Nueva Mayoría" pact,for the 2013 election. On that same date,the conglomerate also planned to hold its parliamentary primaries in districts and/or districts where appropriate;However,on 1 May it was decided that such primaries would not be carried out at the official level.
Hernán Valdés was a Chilean writer,best known for his book Tejas Verdes,the first published account of the repression carried out by the military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet.
General elections were held in Chile on 21 November 2021,including presidential,parliamentary and regional elections. Voters went to the polls to elect the President of the Republic to serve a four-year term,27 of 50 members of the Senate to serve an eight-year term in the National Congress,all 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies to serve a four-year term in the National Congress,and all 302 members of the regional boards to serve a three-year term. Following an electoral reform in 2015,the Senate increased its membership from 38 to 43 in 2017 and grew to its full size of 50 seats after this election.
Álvaro Escobar Rufatt is a Chilean actor,television presenter,lawyer,musician,journalist,radio personality and politician. He was a deputy of the Republic of Chile for District No. 20,which included the communes of Cerrillos,Estación Central and Maipúduring the 2006–2010 period. He is mainly known as an actor and television presenter,although he has been involved in many professional activities.
The Progressive Homeland was a Chilean political party founded in October 2022. It is considered the successor of the Progressive Party (PRO),a formation led by former congressman and former presidential candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami. Its registration was accepted by the Electoral Service of Chile (Servel) in August 2023.
