L Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile

L Period of the Chilean Congress
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Overview
Jurisdiction	Chile
Term	11 March 1998 (1998-03-11) – 11 March 2002 (2002-03-11)
Senate
Members	47
Party control	Christian Democratic Party
Chamber of Deputies
Members	120
Party control	Christian Democratic Party

The XLIX legislative period of the Chilean Congress was elected in the 1997 Chilean parliamentary election and served until 11 March 2002. ^[1]

List of Senators

Constituency	Senator	Party	Votes	%
I[c]	Fernando Flores	PPD	47 159	30,51 %
	Jaime Orpis	UDI	38 093	24,65 %
II[c]	Carmen Frei	DC
	Carlos Cantero	RN
III[c]	Ricardo Núñez	PS	42 263	43,03 %
	Baldo Prokurica	RN	38 212	38,90 %
IV[c]	Jorge Pizarro	DC
	Evelyn Matthei	UDI
V[c]	Sergio Romero Pizarro	RN	127 706	39,72 %
	Carlos Ominami	PS	92 419	28,74 %
VI[c]	Nelson Ávila	PPD	137 125	38,53 %
	Jorge Arancibia	Ind-UDI	136 464	38,35 %
VII[c]	Andrés Zaldívar	DC
	Jovino Novoa	UDI
VIII[c]	Alejandro Foxley	DC
	Carlos Bombal	UDI
IX[c]	Rafael Moreno Rojas	DC
	Andrés Chadwick	UDI
X[c]	Juan Antonio Coloma Correa	UDI	104 179	40,84 %
	Jaime Gazmuri	PS	77 828	30,51 %
XI[c]	Hernán Larraín	UDI	66 767	44,22 %
	Jaime Naranjo	PS	42 395	28,08 %
XII[c]	Hosain Sabag	DC
	José Antonio Viera Gallo	PS
XIII[c]	Mariano Ruiz-Esquide	DC
	Mario Ríos Santander	RN
XIV[c]	Alberto Espina	RN	62 813	48,50 %
	Roberto Muñoz Barra	PPD	35 051	27,06 %
XV[c]	Jorge Lavandero [a]	DC	81 002	35,36 %
	José García Ruminot	RN	79 009	34,48 %
XVI[c]	Gabriel Valdés	DC
	Marco Cariola	UDI
XVII[c]	Rodolfo Stange	UDI
	Sergio Páez Verdugo	DC
XVIII[c]	Antonio Horvath	Ind-RN	13 096	34,93 %
	Adolfo Zaldívar	DC	11 302	30,15 %
XIX[c]	José Ruiz de Giorgio	DC
	Sergio Fernández Fernández	UDI

Appointed Senators 2002–2006

Institution	Senator	Party
Supreme Court	Marcos Aburto	Ind
	Enrique Zurita	Ind
Army	Julio Canessa	Ind
Navy	Jorge Martínez Busch	Ind
Air Force	Ramón Vega Hidalgo	Ind
Carabineros	Fernando Cordero Rusque	Ind
Comptroller General	Enrique Silva Cimma	PRSD
University of Chile Rectorate	Augusto Parra Muñoz	PRSD
Minister of State	Edgardo Boeninger	DC

List of deputies

District Deputy Party Votes % 1[d] Iván Paredes Ind-PS 26 886 37,68 % Rosa González Román UDI 10 835 15,18 % 2[d] Fulvio Rossi Ind-PS 24 480 29,18 % Ramón Pérez Opazo [b] Ind-UDI 17 454 20,80 % 3[d] Waldo Mora DC 14 433 22,08 % Mario Escobar Urbina UDI 13 745 21,03 % 4[d] Manuel Rojas Molina UDI 37 033 35,75 % Pedro Araya Guerrero DC 32 338 31,22 % 5[d] Antonio Leal PPD 29 382 51,05 % Carlos Vilches RN 10 960 19,04 % 6[d] Jaime Mulet DC 17 378 42,38 % Alberto Robles PRSD 8947 21,82 % 7[d] Víctor Manuel Rebolledo PPD 22 178 27,57 % Mario Bertolino RN 17 884 22,23 % 8[d] Patricio Walker DC 43 516 45,35 % Francisco Encina PS 19 544 20,37 % 9[d] Adriana Muñoz PPD 23 380 39,44 % Darío Molina UDI 13 673 23,06 % 10[d] Alfonso Vargas RN 38 631 31,42 % María Eugenia Mella DC 28 800 23,42 % 11[d] Patricio Cornejo DC 26 798 27,84 % Marcelo Forni UDI 22 395 23,27 % 12[d] Arturo Longton Guerrero RN 29 874 29,20 % Juan Bustos PS 27 217 26,60 % 13[d] Laura Soto PPD 34 527 26,53 % Carmen Ibáñez RN 32 113 24,68 % 14[d] Gonzalo Ibáñez UDI 59 822 41,34 % Rodrigo González Torres PPD 47 593 32,89 % 15[d] Samuel Venegas PRSD 20 353 26,49 % Carlos Hidalgo González Ind-RN 18 741 24,39 % 16[d] Patricio Melero UDI 52 806 41,86 % Zarko Luksic DC 38 762 30,73 % 17[d] Pablo Longueira UDI 61 319 40,63 % María Antonieta Saa PPD 49 986 33,12 % 18[d] Guido Girardi PPD 98 491 58,39 % Carlos Olivares DC 10 930 6,48 % 19[d] Patricio Hales PPD 44 193 41,15 % Cristian Leay UDI 36 994 34,44 % 20[d] Cristian Pareto DC 53 474 26,47 % Mario Varela Herrera UDI 49 844 24,68 % 21[d] Marcela Cubillos UDI 61 584 37,01 % Jorge Burgos DC 37 787 22,71 % 22[d] Alberto Cardemil RN 42 772 39,40 % Carolina Tohá Ind-PPD 32 965 30,36 % 23[d] Julio Dittborn Cordua UDI 80 016 44,67 % Pía Guzmán Mena RN 46 675 26,06 % 24[d] María Angélica Cristi RN 47 346 38,52 % Enrique Accorsi PPD 41 239 33,55 % 25[d] Ximena Vidal PPD 42 072 28,28 % Felipe Salaberry UDI 41 504 27,89 % 26[d] Carlos Montes Cisternas PS 69 183 50,99 % Lily Pérez RN 49 810 36,71 % 27[d] Iván Moreira UDI 65 777 42,45 % Eliana Caraball DC 36 832 23,77 % 28[d] Darío Paya UDI 47 756 32,23 % Rodolfo Seguel DC 40 010 27,01 % 29[d] Maximiano Errázuriz RN 69 786 42,83 % Isabel Allende Bussi PS 57 164 35,09 % 30[d] José Antonio Kast UDI 48 025 35,45 % Edgardo Riveros DC 30 056 22,18 % 31[d] Gonzalo Uriarte UDI 60 495 42,00 % Jaime Jiménez Villavicencio DC 39 036 27,10 % 32[d] Alejandro García-Huidobro UDI 35 695 41,16 % Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek PPD 28 689 33,08 % 33[d] Juan Pablo Letelier PS 58 666 53,41 % Eugenio Bauer UDI 29 594 26,94 % 34[d] Alejandra Sepúlveda Ind-DC 29 123 34,16 % Juan Masferrer UDI 28 154 33,03 % 35[d] Aníbal Pérez Lobos PPD 23 923 33,67 % Ramón Barros UDI 20 665 29,08 % 36[d] Sergio Correa UDI 41 777 38,83 % Boris Tapia DC 26 676 24,80 % 37[d] Sergio Aguiló PS 34 195 42,81 % Pablo Prieto Ind-UDI 21 446 26,85 % 38[d] Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca RN 23 035 34,27 % Pablo Lorenzini DC 21 771 32,39 % 39[d] Jorge Tarud PPD 33 067 41,75 % Osvaldo Palma RN 23 363 29,50 % 40[d] Ignacio Urrutia Ind-UDI 25 907 36,67 % Guillermo Ceroni PPD 20 460 28,96 % 41[d] Rosauro Martínez Ind-RN 44 476 38,50 % Carlos Abel Jarpa PRSD 23 150 20,04 % 42[d] Nicolás Monckeberg RN 47 839 43,60 % Felipe Letelier PPD 33 436 30,47 % 43[d] Víctor Barrueto PPD 35 877 35,14 % Jorge Ulloa UDI 38 326 37,53 % 44[d] Andrés Egaña UDI 48 403 32,78 % José Miguel Ortíz DC 52 037 35,25 % 45[d] Alejandro Navarro Brain PS 48 990 45,46 % Edmundo Salas DC 22 125 20,53 % 46[d] Camilo Escalona PS 33 291 37,22 % Iván Norambuena UDI 28 902 32,32 % 47[d] Víctor Pérez Varela UDI 45 328 34,70 % José Pérez Arriagada PRSD 40 201 30,77 % 48[d] Francisco Bayo Veloso RN 18 130 28,02 % Edmundo Villouta DC 14 996 23,17 % 49[d] José Antonio Galilea RN 16 764 26,41 % Jaime Quintana PPD 15 865 25,00 % 50[d] Germán Becker Alvear RN 39 801 37,68 % Eduardo Saffirio DC 35 487 33,59 % 51[d] Eugenio Tuma PPD 25 082 40,32 % Eduardo Díaz del Río UDI 20 156 32,40 % 52[d] René Manuel García RN 23 370 38,43 % Fernando Meza Moncada PRSD 16 781 27,59 % 53[d] Roberto Delmastro Ind-RN 25 866 34,85 % Exequiel Silva DC 22 445 30,24 % 54[d] Enrique Jaramillo PPD 27 706 36,16 % Gastón von Mühlenbrock Ind-UDI 23 902 31,20 % 55[d] Sergio Ojeda Uribe DC 24 752 33,26 % Javier Hernández UDI 23 479 31,55 % 56[d] Carlos Recondo UDI 19 992 29,17 % Fidel Espinoza PS 18 436 26,90 % 57[d] Eduardo Lagos Herrera PRSD 20 565 27,37 % Carlos Kuschel RN 19 004 25,29 % 58[d] Claudio Alvarado UDI 26 203 40,48 % Gabriel Ascencio DC 23 206 35,85 % 59[d] Pablo Galilea RN 14 918 40,29 % Leopoldo Sánchez Grunert PPD 7812 21,10 % 60[d] Rodrigo Álvarez Zenteno UDI 26 081 41,76 % Pedro Muñoz Aburto PS 17 302 27,70 %

Notes

1. Senator Jorge Lavandero (DC) was removed from office after being re-elected in 2001 and later convicted of repeated sexual abuse against four minors. He was replaced by his list mate Guillermo Vásquez Úbeda (PRSD) for the remainder of the term.
2. Ramón Pérez died on 12 June 2005, being replaced by his list-mate, Néstor Jofré (RN)

References

1. Chile, BCN Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de. "Historia Política, Periodo 1998–2002". bcn.cl. Retrieved 2025-09-27.