2014 Uruguayan general election

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Registered	2,620,791
Turnout	90.51% (first round) 0.60pp 88.58% (second round) 0.60pp
Presidential election
Nominee Tabaré Vázquez Luis Lacalle Pou Party Socialist National Alliance Broad Front Running mate Raúl Sendic Jorge Larrañaga Popular vote 1,241,568 955,741 Percentage 56.50% 43.50%
President before election José Mujica Broad Front Elected President Tabaré Vázquez Broad Front
Parliamentary election
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Chamber Broad Front Tabaré Vázquez 49.45 50 0 National Luis Lacalle Pou 31.94 32 +2 Colorado Pedro Bordaberry 13.33 13 −4 Independent Pablo Mieres 3.20 3 +1 Popular Unity Gonzalo Abella 1.17 1 +1 Senate Broad Front Tabaré Vázquez 49.45 15 −1 National Luis Lacalle Pou 31.94 10 +1 Colorado Pedro Bordaberry 13.33 4 −1 Independent Pablo Mieres 3.20 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Presidential election first round results Presidential election second round results Parliamentary election results by constituency

General elections were held inUruguay on 26 October 2014, alongside aconstitutional referendum. As no presidential candidate received an absolute majority in the first round of voting, arunoff took place on 30 November.Primary elections to determine each party's presidential candidate had been held on 1 June.

Incumbent PresidentJosé Mujica was ineligible to run owing to a constitutional limit on serving consecutive terms. The governingBroad Front nominated Mujica's predecessor,Tabaré Vázquez, as its candidate. Vázquez came within a few thousand votes of a first-round victory and advanced to the runoff withNational Party candidateLuis Alberto Lacalle Pou, son of former presidentLuis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera. In the runoff, Vázquez was returned to office with the widest margin since the run-off system was first implemented in 1999. The Broad Front also maintained its majority in theChamber of Deputies, winning 50 of the 99 seats.

The president was elected using thetwo-round system, with a run-off required if no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round. The 30 members of theSenate were elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency.^[1] The 99 members of theChamber of Representatives were elected by proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies based on thedepartments. Seats are allocated using thehighest averages method.^[2]

The elections were held using thedouble simultaneous vote method, whereby voters cast a single vote for the party of their choice for the presidency, the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives.

Presidential primaries were held on 1 June to select the candidates. The following list shows the presidential candidates elected to take part in the October presidential elections.

Party		Candidate		Ideology	Previous result
					Votes (%)	Seats
	Broad Front		Tabaré Vázquez	Democratic socialism Social democracy	47.96%	50 / 99 16 / 30
	National Party		Luis Lacalle Pou	Conservatism Christian democracy	29.07%	30 / 99 9 / 30
	Colorado Party		Pedro Bordaberry	Liberalism	17.02%	17 / 99 5 / 30
	Independent Party		Pablo Mieres	Christian humanism Christian democracy	2.49%	2 / 99 0 / 30
	Popular Unity		Gonzalo Abella	Marxism	0.67%	0 / 99 0 / 30
	Ecologist Radical Intransigent Party		César Vega	Green liberalism	Did not contest
	Workers' Party		Rafael Fernández	Trotskyism	Did not contest

There were around 250,000 new voters in this election, many of them not used to traditional media.^[3] Campaign managers and advertising agents took notice of this new trend, and implemented an important portion of their campaign viasocial media.^[4]

Within the Broad Front coalition, theMovement of Popular Participation won six seats in the Senate, theLiber Seregni Front won three and theSocialist Party won two.^[5] Following the second round of the presidential elections, the Broad Front gained an extra seat in the Senate, giving them a majority, as Vice PresidentRaúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez automatically became a member.^[5]

Party		Presidential candidate	First round		Second round		Seats
			Votes	%	Votes	%	Chamber	+/–	Senate	+/–
	Broad Front	Tabaré Vázquez	1,134,187	49.45	1,241,568	56.50	50	0	15	–1
	National Party	Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou	732,601	31.94	955,741	43.50	32	+2	10	+1
	Colorado Party	Pedro Bordaberry	305,699	13.33			13	–4	4	–1
	Independent Party	Pablo Mieres	73,379	3.20			3	+1	1	+1
	Popular Unity	Gonzalo Abella	26,869	1.17			1	+1	0	0
	Partido Ecologista Radical Intransigente	César Vega	17,835	0.78			0	New	0	New
	Workers' Party	Rafael Fernández	3,218	0.14			0	New	0	New
Total			2,293,788	100.00	2,197,309	100.00	99	0	30	0
Valid votes			2,293,788	96.70	2,197,309	94.66
Invalid/blank votes			78,329	3.30	124,066	5.34
Total votes			2,372,117	100.00	2,321,375	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			2,620,791	90.51	2,620,791	88.58
Source:Corte Electoral

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