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Parliamentary elections were held inVenezuela on 6 December 2015[3] to elect the 164deputies and three indigenous representatives of theNational Assembly. They were the fourth parliamentary elections to take place after the1999 constitution, which abolished the bicameral system in favour of a unicameral parliament, and the first to take place after thedeath of PresidentHugo Chávez. Despite predictions from the opposition of a possible last-minute cancellation, the elections took place as scheduled, with the majority of polls showing theDemocratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) holding a wide lead over the rulingUnited Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its wider alliance, theGreat Patriotic Pole (GPP).
The political landscape leading up to the elections was heavily influenced by the severeeconomic crisis faced by the country, as well as a series ofprotests that took place in 2014, after which formerChacao mayor and leader ofPopular Will,Leopoldo López, was detained and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The scarcity of basic goods and highinflation were the central topics of discussion, with each party blaming their opponent as the cause. Introducing economic policies to counter the crisis, as well as granting amnesty topolitical prisoners, was the main campaign pledge of the MUD. The ruling PSUV, on the other hand, ran a campaign focused on overcoming what they called an "economic war" led by the right-wing against the Venezuelan people, as well as defending the legacy of Chávez and the social policies introducedduring his presidency.
The result was a decisive defeat for the PSUV, which lost control of the Assembly for the first time since 1999.[4] The MUD, composed of politicians opposed to the government of both Chávez and his successor, won 109 seats, and with the support of the three indigenous representatives, gained asupermajority of 112 seats against 55 won by the GPP. In terms of popular vote, the MUD received 7.7 million votes, an increase of 2.4 million from the2010 elections, becoming the most voted party in Venezuelan electoral history. In comparison, the GPP only managed to gain an additional 200,000 votes, to total 5.6 million votes.
Since the1999 Constitutional Assembly elections, the National Assembly was dominated by alliances supportive of PresidentHugo Chávez. In the2005 parliamentary elections, most opposition parties decided to withdraw, resulting in all seats being won by theFifth Republic Movement and other parties supportive of Chávez. For the2010 elections, an alliance of opposition parties was formed by theDemocratic Unity Roundtable to contest the elections, and managed to win 64 seats. ThePSUV, which was an alliance formed by Chávez from the Fifth Republic Movement and a number of smaller parties, won 96 seats, maintaining their majority, but lost their two-thirds and three-fifthssupermajority.Fatherland for All, a small left-wing party, won two seats.[5] After Chávez's death in 2013, his hand-picked successorMaduro wasnarrowly elected president, continuing Chávez' ideological influence.[6][7] In 2015, the Democratic Unity Roundtable alliance aimed to improve its result from last time and end the incumbent PSUV government,[8] while Maduro said he had faith in the voters giving the government a large majority.[9]
In 2014, a series of protests and demonstrations began in Venezuela. The protests have been attributed to inflation,violence andshortages in Venezuela. The protests have been largely peaceful,[10] though some have escalated and resulted in violence from both protesters and government forces. The government has accused the protests of being motivated by 'fascists' opposition leaders, capitalism and foreign influence,[11] and has itself been accused of censorship, supporting groups calledcolectivos using violence against protesters and politically motivated arrests.[12]
Starting from 2015, the 167 members of theNational Assembly were elected by amixed majoritarian system; 113 members were elected byplurality block voting in 87 constituencies. A total of 51 seats were elected byclosed listproportional representation based on the 23states and theCapital District. Seats were allocated using thed'Hondt method. The remaining three seats were reserved forindigenous peoples, and were elected by the community.[citation needed]
The opposition coalition held primaries on 17 May in 33 of the 87 electoral districts, choosing candidates for 42 seats; 125 additional candidates were expected to be hand-picked by 'consensus' among party leaders,[13] though the rules were later changed to require 40% of opposition candidates to be women and barred some popular opposition candidates from running, a move that experts called unconstitutional.[14] The PSUV held primaries in all 87 electoral districts on 28 June with the Bolivarian government stating there was a participation of 3,162,400 voters,[citation needed] though some observing the primaries noticed a large decrease of voters to less than 1 million participating, or about 10% of PSUV members.[14]
Graphical summary
Poll results are listed in the tables below in chronological order and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour.
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | PSUV/GPP | MUD | Others | Don't know | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IVAD[15][16] | 29 September 2014 | 800 | 27.6% | 45.2% | – | 27.2% | 17.6% |
| Consultores 21[16] | 21 September – 2 October 2014 | 1000 | 33% | 48% | – | 15% | |
| Datanálisis[17] | October 2014 | 1293 | 21.0% | 38.9% | 12.9% | 17.5% | 17.9% |
| Datanálisis[17] | November 2014 | 1300 | 18.8% | 39.8% | 15.5% | 17.5% | 21% |
| VARIANZAS[18][19] | 8–23 December 2014 | 1200 | 30.3% | 43.9% | 4.9%[note 1] | 20.9%[note 2] | 13.6% |
| Datanálisis[17] | January 2015 | 1000 | 17.3% | 45.9% | 13.8% | 17.4% | 28.6% |
| Keller y Asociados[20] | January 2015 | 1200 | 44% | 56% | – | – | 12% |
| Meganalisis[21] | 25 January 2015 | – | 21.0% | 29.0% | – | 26.8% | 8% |
| Datanálisis[22] | February 2015 | ? | 22.5% | 59.6% | 17.9% | – | 37.1% |
| ICS[23] | 10–20 February 2015 | 1300 | 43.6% | 31.6% | – | 24.8% | 12% |
| DatinCorp[24] | 8 February 2015 | 1200 | 23.83% | 47.83% | – | 17%[note 3] | 24% |
| Datanálisis[17][25] | March 2015 | 1000 | 19.0% | 42.6% | 8.8% | 21.3% | 23.6% |
| Keller y Asociados[26] | 26 February – 13 March 2015 | 1200 | 31% | 42% | 11% | 16% | 11% |
| Datanálisis[17] | April 2015 | 1000 | 25.0% | 45.8% | 6.5% | 16.5% | 20.8% |
| VARIANZAS[27] | 19 March – 2 April 2015 | 1200 | 33.7% | 46.1% | 7.8% | 12.5% | 12.4% |
| UCAB/Delphos[28] | 10–25 April 2015 | 1200 | 15.5% | 39.2% | – | 45.7%[note 4] | 23.7% |
| Hercón[29] | 1–15 May 2015 | 1200 | 28% | 52% | – | 19.8%[note 5] | 24% |
| DatinCorp[30] | May 2015 | 1200 | 18% | 48% | 21% | 14%[note 3] | 30% |
| Datanálisis[31] | 18–30 May 2015 | 1000 | 21.3% | 40.1% | 10.0% | 28.6% | 18.8% |
| Meganalisis[21] | 30 May 2015 | – | 19.5% | 17.6% | – | 28.7% | 1.9% |
| IVAD[32] | 28 May – 11 June 2015 | 1200 | 20.8% | 32.6% | 27.6 | 19%[note 6] | 11.8% |
| Datanálisis[33] | June 2015 | ? | 27% | 61% | 12% | – | 34% |
| Hercón[34] | 20–27 June 2015 | 2000 | 28.1% | 61.1% | – | 10.5% | 33% |
| ICS[35] | 6–27 July 2015 | 8000 (500 per state) | 45.3% | 37.6% | – | 17.1% | 7.7% |
| Datanálisis[17][36] | 10–23 July 2015 | 999 | 19.2% | 42.2% | 11.8% | 17.5% | 23% |
| DatinCorp[37] | July 2015 | 1197 | 20% | 42% | 14% | 23%[note 7] | 22% |
| Meganalisis[38] | August 2015 | – | 16.3% | 42.4% | – | 13.0% | 26.1% |
| IVAD[39] | 8–16 August 2015 | 1200 | 19.3% | 57.9% | – | 22.8% | 38.6% |
| Keller y Asociados[40] | 19 August – 5 September 2015 | 1200 | 27% | 53% | 11% | 9% | 26% |
| Datanálisis[41] | September 2015 | – | 21% | 44% | 35% | – | 23% |
| DatinCorp[42] | September 2015 | – | 20% | 53% | – | 33% | |
| Delphos | September 2015 | – | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 30% |
| Meganalisis[38] | September 2015 | – | 26.7% | 37.6% | – | 35.7% | 10.9% |
| Venebarómetro/IVAD[43] | 5–15 September 2015 | 1200 | 17.1% | 38.3% | 28.0% | 16.7% | 21.2% |
| Hercon[44] | 13–16 September 2015 | 1000 | 22.3% | 60.1% | 13.0% | 4.6% | 37.8% |
| Consultores 21[45] | 4–20 September 2015 | – | 35.8% | 57.8% | 3.7% | – | 22% |
| Hercon[46] | 5–20 September 2015 | 1200 | 30.3% | 62.3% | – | 7.3% | 32% |
| Consultores 21[47] | October 2015 | – | 34% | 55% | – | 21% | |
| Datanálisis[48] | October 2015 | – | 28.2% | 63.2% | – | 35% | |
| DatinCorp[49] | October 2015 | – | 20% | 47% | – | 27% | |
| DatinCorp[50] | October 2015 | – | 39% | 56% | – | 17% | |
| IVAD[51] | October 2015 | – | 22.1% | 41.8% | [note 1] | 19.7% | |
| Venebarómetro[52] | 11 October 2015 | – | 19.9% | 43.7% | – | 26.5% | 23.8% |
| Keller y Asociados[53] | 5–15 November 2015 | 1200 | 25% | 59% | 11% | 6% | 34% |
| IVAD[54] | 10–20 November 2015 | 1200 | 27.8% | 43.0% | 11.3% | 17.8% | 15.2% |
| Venebarómetro[55] | 8–22 November 2015 | 1200 | 27.6% | 42.7% | 11.1% | 18.7% | 15.1% |
| Hercón[56] | 10–25 November 2015 | 1200 | 31.6% | 60.1% | – | 8.2% | 28.5% |
| Meganalisis[57] | 18–26 November 2015 | 1200 | 28% | 63% | 6% | 3% | 35% |
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Leading up to the elections, serious issues have been raised about its fairness and credibility.[58] On 10 October 2015,Brazil pulled out of aUNASUR electoral mission to observe the Venezuelan election over what it said a lack of guarantees by the socialist government and its veto of the choice to head the delegation.[59] In a statement on 10 November 2015, Secretary General of theOrganization of American StatesLuis Almagro condemned Venezuela's electoral process, explaining that the ruling party, PSUV, has an unfair advantage with its ability to use public assets, media access, creating dubious voting sheets and by disqualifying opposition politicians, stating that "It's worrying that ... the difficulties only impact the opposition parties".[60]
After the election, the opposition MUD coalition was accused of vote-buying in the state ofAmazonas.[citation needed] TheSupreme Court suspended all four Amazonas delegates (one socialist and three opposition).[61] As of May 2018, these claims have not been proven.[62]
The United States has sought to influence Venezuelan political direction since the 1950s. For the 2015 elections this included mobilising through digital means.[63] Prior to the elections, theNational Endowment for Democracy (NED) provided a grant toNational Democratic Institute (NDI) for a project called "Venezuela: Improved Training and Communications Skills for Political Activists".[64] After aFreedom of Information Act request fromJacobin, NED provided documents detailing that about $300,000 were granted to the NDI to assist theVenezuelan opposition with workshops to coach politicians and activists on political messaging, especially onsocial media.[64] The program focused on usingFacebook as a means of building support for the opposition; a database of voters was collected andtargeted advertising on social media was utilized to swing government supporters vote for the opposition.[64] The NED said that the program was necessary to combat the Venezuelan government's control of themedia in Venezuela and that social media was less susceptible tocensorship.[64]
The project was first implemented in the2013 Venezuelan municipal elections and determined to successfully interact with more voters, with the program subsequently being used for the 2015 parliamentary elections.[64] The NDI claimed credit for the opposition's victory in the elections.[64]
The MUD won 109 of the 164 general seats and all three indigenous seats, which gave them asupermajority in the National Assembly, while the GPP won the remaining 55 seats.Voter turnout was just over 74 percent.[3]
The Great Patriotic Pole coalition led by the PSUV received 5,625,248 votes (40.92%) in the party-list vote. A total of 29 parties were members of the coalition, although six of them ran separately in some states.
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| Party | Party-list | Constituency | Total seats | |||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Democratic Unity Roundtable | 7,728,025 | 56.21 | 28 | 11,407,456 | 55.85 | 81 | 109 | |
| United Socialist Party of Venezuela | 5,203,487 | 37.85 | 23 | 7,911,444 | 38.74 | 32 | 55 | |
| Communist Party of Venezuela | 114,343 | 0.83 | 0 | 161,846 | 0.79 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Vision for My Country | 104,468 | 0.76 | 0 | 146,878 | 0.72 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tupamaro | 82,188 | 0.60 | 0 | 119,443 | 0.58 | 0 | 0 | |
| Red Flag Party | 61,700 | 0.45 | 0 | 61,402 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fatherland for All | 56,199 | 0.41 | 0 | 77,687 | 0.38 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Integration Movement–Unity | 50,434 | 0.37 | 0 | 74,719 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 | |
| Movement for Socialism | 37,405 | 0.27 | 0 | 56,720 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | |
| Networks Party | 33,663 | 0.24 | 0 | 46,090 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | |
| For Social Democracy | 29,647 | 0.22 | 0 | 42,650 | 0.21 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent Solidarity | 23,075 | 0.17 | 0 | 26,743 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent Party of Zulia | 22,771 | 0.17 | 0 | 22,362 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Unidad Democracia Renovadora | 21,857 | 0.16 | 0 | 28,777 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Electoral Movement | 18,678 | 0.14 | 0 | 24,884 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Venezuelan Popular Unity | 16,286 | 0.12 | 0 | 23,397 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary New Path | 12,209 | 0.09 | 0 | 18,403 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ecological Movement of Venezuela | 11,847 | 0.09 | 0 | 10,159 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents for National Community | 10,220 | 0.07 | 0 | 14,779 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
| Authentic Renewal Organization | 7,489 | 0.05 | 0 | 12,960 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
| Venezuelan Revolutionary Currents | 7,383 | 0.05 | 0 | 10,494 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Republican Bicentennial Vanguard | 7,362 | 0.05 | 0 | 10,478 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alliance for Change | 7,106 | 0.05 | 0 | 10,384 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary Party of Work | 6,303 | 0.05 | 0 | 8,800 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic Unity | 5,924 | 0.04 | 0 | 7,454 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |
| Organised Youth of Venezuela | 5,849 | 0.04 | 0 | 9,022 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |
| Organized Socialist Party in Venezuela | 5,049 | 0.04 | 0 | 6,739 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Organizados para Gobernar Gente Nueva | 4,349 | 0.03 | 0 | 6,355 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Labour Movement | 3,965 | 0.03 | 0 | 5,271 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Free Voters | 3,857 | 0.03 | 0 | 4,959 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Democratic Republican Union | 3,471 | 0.03 | 0 | 4,027 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sovereign Unity | 3,304 | 0.02 | 0 | 1,659 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| National Opinion | 3,274 | 0.02 | 0 | 2,849 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Youth in National Action with Bimba | 2,737 | 0.02 | 0 | 3,224 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Movimiento Conciencia de País | 2,582 | 0.02 | 0 | 3,657 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Think Democracy | 2,536 | 0.02 | 0 | 3,948 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Democratic Party for Peace and Liberty | 2,196 | 0.02 | 0 | 3,545 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Allied Democrats of Free Expression | 2,190 | 0.02 | 0 | 3,288 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent People | 1,994 | 0.01 | 0 | 2,169 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Social Order | 1,796 | 0.01 | 0 | 2,020 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| We Continue to Carabobo | 1,755 | 0.01 | 0 | 2,855 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Labour Power | 1,562 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,422 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Workers' Party | 1,295 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,922 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialism and Liberty Party | 1,229 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,140 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Intercultural Pluriethnic Movement of Venezuela | 1,125 | 0.01 | 0 | 970 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Venezuelan Independent Will Voters | 1,001 | 0.01 | 0 | 977 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Good Land | 882 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,165 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Renovación en Democracia Nacimiento Alternativo | 848 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,604 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Majority | 727 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,116 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent Movement for the Love of Monagas | 712 | 0.01 | 0 | 1,971 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Orientation Party | 683 | 0.00 | 0 | 604 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Movement 100 | 635 | 0.00 | 0 | 1,104 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alpha Project | 582 | 0.00 | 0 | 1,268 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independent Merideños Progressives | 531 | 0.00 | 0 | 515 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| People on the Street | 525 | 0.00 | 0 | 516 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Multi-Ethnic Peoples of Amazonas | 516 | 0.00 | 0 | 531 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Socialist Generation | 495 | 0.00 | 0 | 469 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| People of Vargas | 488 | 0.00 | 0 | 1,069 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sixth Republic | 482 | 0.00 | 0 | 609 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Revolutionary Unity | 467 | 0.00 | 0 | 640 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sucre Awakens Liberation Movement | 426 | 0.00 | 0 | 730 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Socialist Renewal Movement | 275 | 0.00 | 0 | 253 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Pact | 253 | 0.00 | 0 | 149 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Labor Party Towards Socialism | 155 | 0.00 | 0 | 57 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Organised Independent Party | 86 | 0.00 | 0 | 64 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolucionario Independiente Organizado Social | 59 | 0.00 | 0 | 59 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Everyone United for Amazonas | 59 | 0.00 | 0 | 36 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vanguardia Popular | 353 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Others | 379 | 0.00 | 0 | 1,088 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
| Indigenous seats | 3 | |||||||
| Total | 13,747,450 | 100.00 | 51 | 20,424,397 | 100.00 | 113 | 167 | |
| Valid votes | 13,747,450 | 95.23 | 13,130,975 | 90.39 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 688,138 | 4.77 | 1,396,519 | 9.61 | ||||
| Total votes | 14,435,588 | 100.00 | 14,527,494 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 19,496,365 | 74.04 | 19,496,365 | 74.51 | ||||
| Source:CNE | ||||||||
| States/districts won by the MUD |
| States/districts won by the GPP |
| State | MUD | GPP | Others | Margin | State total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Capital District | 662,926 | 57.23% | 460,871 | 39.79% | 34,443 | 2.97% | 202,055 | 17.45% | 1,158,240 |
| Amazonas | 33,069 | 49.81% | 30,868 | 46.49% | 2,447 | 3.69% | 2,201 | 3.32% | 66,384 |
| Anzoátegui | 451,973 | 59.34% | 288,789 | 37.91% | 20,890 | 2.74% | 163,184 | 21.43% | 761,652 |
| Apure | 93,666 | 44.79% | 110,834 | 53.00% | 4,611 | 2.21% | −17,168 | −8.21% | 209,111 |
| Aragua | 468,964 | 54.07% | 375,304 | 43.27% | 22,975 | 2.75% | 94,660 | 10.80% | 867,243 |
| Barinas | 217,630 | 55.68% | 166,471 | 42.59% | 6,694 | 1.71% | 51,159 | 13.09% | 390,795 |
| Bolívar | 387,771 | 59.57% | 242,849 | 37.30% | 20,309 | 3.12% | 144,922 | 22.26% | 650,929 |
| Carabobo | 644,642 | 58.57% | 439,195 | 39.91% | 16,619 | 1.51% | 205,447 | 18.67% | 1,100,456 |
| Cojedes | 77,395 | 46.39% | 87,585 | 52.50% | 1,826 | 1.09% | −10,190 | −6.11% | 166,806 |
| Delta Amacuro | 27,087 | 36.20% | 43,813 | 58.55% | 3,922 | 5.24% | −16,726 | −22.35% | 74,822 |
| Falcón | 252,620 | 54.14% | 196,425 | 42.10% | 17,484 | 3.75% | 56,195 | 12.05% | 466,529 |
| Guárico | 168,934 | 48.35% | 175,857 | 50.33% | 4,588 | 1.31% | −6,923 | −1.98% | 349,379 |
| Lara | 504,122 | 54.67% | 388,685 | 42.15% | 29,184 | 3.17% | 115,437 | 12.52% | 921,991 |
| Mérida | 280,251 | 63.33% | 145,585 | 32.89% | 16,676 | 3.77% | 134,666 | 30.43% | 442,512 |
| Miranda | 838,292 | 58.96% | 546,718 | 38.45% | 36,762 | 2.59% | 291,574 | 20.51% | 1,421,772 |
| Monagas | 227,635 | 51.55% | 201,182 | 45.56% | 12,705 | 2.88% | 26,453 | 5.99% | 441,522 |
| Nueva Esparta | 151,122 | 60.89% | 93,365 | 37.62% | 3,692 | 1.49% | 57,757 | 23.27% | 248,179 |
| Portuguesa | 186,905 | 43.96% | 228,409 | 53.72% | 9,833 | 2.31% | −41,504 | −9.76% | 424,774 |
| Sucre | 201,753 | 49.04% | 196,080 | 47.66% | 13,548 | 3.29% | 5,673 | 1.38% | 411,381 |
| Táchira | 392,709 | 65.55% | 175,103 | 29.23% | 31,229 | 5.21% | 217,606 | 36.33% | 599,041 |
| Trujillo | 180,300 | 49.48% | 168,503 | 46.25% | 15,525 | 4.26% | 11,797 | 3.24% | 364,328 |
| Vargas | 99,734 | 52.27% | 85,453 | 44.78% | 5,609 | 2.94% | 14,281 | 7.48% | 190,796 |
| Yaracuy | 148,481 | 48.09% | 156,601 | 50.71% | 3,674 | 1.19% | −8,120 | −2.63% | 308,756 |
| Zulia | 1,030,044 | 60.24% | 620,703 | 36.30% | 58,932 | 3.45% | 409,341 | 23.94% | 1,709,679 |
| Total | 7,728,025 | 56.21% | 5,625,248 | 40.92% | 394,177 | 2.87% | 2,102,777 | 15.30% | 13,747,450 |
| Source:CNE | |||||||||
According to the Associated Press, celebrations and fireworks could be heard in the streets of Caracas following the MUD victory.[65] In a speech following the results, President Maduro acknowledged his party's defeat, saying that, despite these "adverse results", Venezuela's democracy and constitution had triumphed; while calling for peace, re-evaluation, he attributed the opposition's victory to an intensification of the "economic war".[65][66] A defiant Maduro said he would give no quarter to the Venezuelan opposition in spite of his own party's crushing defeat in last weekend's mid-term parliamentary elections. Maduro vowed to block "the counter-revolutionary right" from taking over the country. "We won't let it," he said.[4] The leader of the MUD,Jesús Torrealba, told supporters after their party's victory that "The country wants change and that change is beginning today".[65]Henrique Capriles Radonski, a leading opposition politician, stated "The results are as we hoped. Venezuela has won. It's irreversible".[66]
Venezuelan bonds grew across the board about one to three cents after the announcement of MUD's victory in the elections, with one researcher at Exotix brokerage stating, "It's better than we expected. Polls suggested a victory but whether that translated into seats was another question. Also, (the government) seem to have accepted the result".[67]
Mauricio Macri,president-elect of Argentina, had announced that he would request to remove Venezuela fromMercosur, as the government was not respecting democratic doctrines. He declined this plan when Maduro acknowledged the defeat of his party.[68] However, a year after the election, on 1 December 2016, Venezuela was suspended from Mercosur.[69]
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