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Chile presidential election 2017 Results Voting Live Dates Opinion Exit Poll
Chile presidential election Dates 2017
Chile presidential election Date: 19 November 2017
A general election in Chile is scheduled to be held, according to the Constitution, on Sunday 19 November 2017, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections.
Voters will go to the polls to elect:
- A President of the Republic to serve a four-year term.
- Twenty three of 43 members of the Senate to serve an eight-year term in the National Congress.
- The full 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies to serve a four-year term in the
- National Congress.
- The full 278 members of the regional boards to serve a four-year term.
All the newly-elected authorities will begin their terms on 11 March 2018.
Chile presidential election Voting Live 2017
- In the presidential race, if none of the candidates secure an bsolute majority of the valid votes, a runoff election is to be held on 17 December 2017. The Constitution bars Michelle Bachelet, the incumbent president, from seeking immediate reelection.
- Following an election reform in 2015, the Chamber of Deputies will grow in size to 155 members from the current 120, while the Senate will increase its membership from 38 to 43 after this election, and to 50 following the election in 2021.
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This will be the first non-primary election in which Chileans will be able to vote from abroad. Also, for the first time, a 40% gender quota will be established for candidates of each political party in parliamentary elections.
Electoral system of Chile
Current electoral system.Each electoral district and senatorial constituency directly elects two representatives. That is, 120 deputies and 38 senators, in total. Chile is the only country in the world with two-seat electoral districts nationwide.
Candidates for Chile presidential election
Marco Enríquez-Ominami
Carolina Goic
Alejandro Guillier
José Antonio Kast
Alejandro Navarro
Sebastián Piñera
Chile Parties and leaders
Christian Democratic Party
Socialist Party
Party for Democracy
National Renewal
Social Democrat Radical Party
Communist Party
Citizen Left
Chile presidential election past election results
Candidate |
Party/coalition |
First round |
Second round |
||
Votes |
% |
Votes |
% |
||
Michelle Bachelet |
PS/New Majority |
3,075,839 |
46.70 |
3,470,379 |
62.16 |
Evelyn Matthei |
UDI/Alliance |
1,648,481 |
25.03 |
2,111,891 |
37.83 |
Marco Enríquez-Ominami |
PRO/Chile Changes, If You Want It |
723,542 |
10.98 |
||
Franco Parisi |
Independent |
666,015 |
10.11 |
||
Marcel Claude |
PH/Everybody to La Moneda |
185,072 |
2.81 |
||
Alfredo Sfeir |
Green Ecologist Party |
154,648 |
2.34 |
||
Roxana Miranda |
Equality Party |
81,873 |
1.24 |
||
Ricardo Israel |
Regionalist Party of the Independents |
37,744 |
0.57 |
||
Tomás Jocelyn-Holt |
Independent |
12,594 |
0.19 |
||
Valid votes |
6,585,808 |
100.00 |
5,582,270 |
100.00 |
|
Null votes |
66,935 |
0.99 |
82,916 |
1.45 |
|
Blank votes |
46,268 |
0.69 |
32,565 |
0.57 |
|
Total votes |
6,699,011 |
100.00 |
5,697,751 |
100.00 |
|
Registered voters/turnout |
13,573,143 |
49.35 |
13,573,143 |
41.97 |
|
Voting age population/turnout |
13,232,940 |
50.62 |
13,232,940 |
43.05 |