Dominican Republic general election, 1994

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Dominican Republic presidential election, 1994
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Nominee Joaquín Balaguer José Francisco Peña Gómez Juan Bosch
Party PSRC PRD PLD
Popular vote1,275,4601,253,179395,653
Percentage43.3%41.6%13.1%
President before election

Joaquín Balaguer
PSRC

Elected President

Joaquín Balaguer
PSRC

General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 1994. [1] Joaquín Balaguer of the Social Christian Reformist Party won the presidential election, whilst the Dominican Revolutionary Party-led alliance won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 87.6%. [2]

Dominican Republic country in the Caribbean

The Dominican Republic is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and third by population with approximately 10 million people, of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.

Joaquín Balaguer President of the Dominican Republic

Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was the President of the Dominican Republic who served three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and 1986 to 1996.

Social Christian Reformist Party

The Social Christian Reformist Party is a Christian democratic right-wing political party in the Dominican Republic formed by the union of the Partido Reformista and the Partido Revolucionario Social Cristiano. Some of the PRSC's founders and leaders were originally business leaders and Roman Catholics who opposed the communist, socialist, democratic socialist and social democratic tendencies of Juan Bosch, of the PRD and PLD, respectively.

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Despite reforms after the 1990 elections, including a new electoral roll, these elections were also branded fraudulent. [3] Following the election an agreement known as the Pact for Democracy (Pacto por la Democracia) was reached, which shortened the presidential term to two years, allowing new elections to be held in 1996 in which Balaguer would not run (for the first time since 1966). [3]

The Pact for Democracy is known by Dominicans as the agreement, act and / or agreement reached by José Francisco Peña Gómez and Joaquín Balaguer after the change in the electoral results of the 1994 elections in which Peña Gómez was the winner and Joaquín Balaguer He altered the results declaring himself winner of the elections.

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Joaquín Balaguer Social Christian Reformist Party 1,275,46043.3
José Francisco Peña Gómez Dominican Revolutionary Party 1,253,17941.6
Juan Bosch Dominican Liberation Party 395,65313.1
Jacobo Majluta Azar Independent Revolutionary Party 68,9102.3
Antonio Reynoso Movement for Independence, Unity and Change 22,5480.8
Invalid/blank votes147,646-
Total3,163,396100
Source: Nohlen

Congress

PartyVotes%HouseSenate
Seats+/-Seats+/-
PRD-UD-PRI-BIS-PQD-ASD-PNVC 1,244,44141.957-15-
PRSC-PDP 1,160,40539.150-14-
Dominican Liberation Party 467,61715.813-1-
Institutional Democratic Party95,8193.20-0-
Movement of National Reconciliation0New0New
Party of the Dominican People0000
National Renaissance Party 0New0New
Invalid/blank votes182,556-----
Total3,150,8381001200300
Source: Nohlen

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References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p247 ISBN   978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p248
  3. 1 2 Nohlen, p242
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