General elections were held inUruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside adouble referendum.^[1] The result was a narrow victory for theColorado Party, which won the most seats in theChamber of Deputies and theSenate and received the most votes in the presidential election.

Tabaré Vázquez of theBroad Front received the most votes of any presidential candidate. However, former presidentJulio Maria Sanguinetti returned to office by virtue of the Colorados receiving the most votes of any party. Under the multi-candidateLey de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Vázquez finished just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-upNational Party, even though he won over 121,000 more votes than Sanguinetti. At the time, this was the best showing for a third party since the presidential system was reinstituted with the1967 constitution.

They were the last presidential elections conducted under theLey de Lemas system, which had been used for much of the 20th century and had been reinstituted in 1967. In 1996 areferendum amended the constitution to restrict each party to a single presidential candidate, effective from the1999 elections.

Party		Presidential candidate	Votes	%	Seats
					Chamber	+/–	Senate	+/–
	Colorado Party	Julio María Sanguinetti	500,767	24.68	32	+2	11	+2
		Jorge Batlle Ibáñez	102,551	5.05
		Jorge Pacheco Areco	51,936	2.56
		Jorge Barreiro	227	0.01
		al lema	947	0.05
		Total	656,428	32.35
	National Party	Alberto Volonté	301,698	14.87	31	–8	10	–2
		Juan Andrés Ramírez	264,258	13.02
		Carlos Julio Pereyra	65,666	3.24
		al lema	1,762	0.09
		Total	633,384	31.21
	Broad Front–Progressive Encounter	Tabaré Vázquez	621,226	30.61	31	+10	9	+2
	New Space	Rafael Michelini	104,773	5.16	5	–4	1	–1
	Partido Verde Eto-Ecologista	Rodolfo Tálice	5,498	0.27	0	0	0	0
	Party of the Sun	Mabel Portillo	2,258	0.11	0	New	0	New
	Civic Union	Luis Pieri	2,063	0.10	0	New	0	New
	Blue Party	Roberto Canessa	1,645	0.08	0	New	0	New
	Party for Social Security	Elías Yaffalian	828	0.04	0	New	0	New
	Workers' Party	Juan Vital Andrada	378	0.02	0	0	0	0
	Eastern Alliance	Federico Silva Ledesma	333	0.02	0	New	0	New
	Righteous Movement	Bolívar Espínola	161	0.01	0	0	0	0
	Democratic Labour Party	Pompeyo Giansanti	120	0.01	0	New	0	New
	Republican Party	Ademar Álvarez Franco	117	0.01	0	New	0	New
	Progressive Movement	Elías Perdomo	69	0.00	0	New	0	New
Total			2,029,281	100.00	99	0	31	+1
Valid votes			2,029,281	95.31
Invalid/blank votes			99,964	4.69
Total votes			2,129,245	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			2,330,154	91.38
Source:Electoral Court

• Mieres, Pablo.Elecciones 1994: una nueva fase de la transformación electoral en el Uruguay(PDF) (in Spanish). Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved12 June 2014.

• Politics Data Bank at the Social Sciences School – Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

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