Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on 16 December 2001.[1] The Concert of Parties for Democracy alliance remained the largest faction in the Chamber of Deputies, but saw its majority in the Chamber reduced to just two seats.
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All 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||||||||||||
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18 of 49 seats in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Results
editSenate
edit| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won | Not up | Total | ||||||||
| Concertación | Christian Democratic Party | 395,728 | 22.84 | 2 | 10 | 12 | ||||
| Socialist Party | 254,905 | 14.71 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Party for Democracy | 219,335 | 12.66 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| Social Democrat Radical Party | 19,025 | 1.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 888,993 | 51.32 | 9 | 11 | 20 | |||||
| Alliance for Chile | National Renewal | 342,045 | 19.74 | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| Independent Democratic Union | 263,035 | 15.18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||||
| Independents | 157,639 | 9.10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 762,719 | 44.03 | 9 | 9 | 18 | |||||
| Communist Party | 45,735 | 2.64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Humanist Party | 6,465 | 0.37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Liberal Party | 1,407 | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Independents | 27,096 | 1.56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Appointed senators | – | – | 9 | |||||||
| Former presidents | – | – | 2 | |||||||
| Total | 1,732,415 | 100.00 | 18 | 20 | 49 | |||||
| Valid votes | 1,732,415 | 87.72 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 242,602 | 12.28 | ||||||||
| Total votes | 1,975,017 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,307,154 | 85.60 | ||||||||
| Source: SERVEL, Nohlen, IPU, World Factbook | ||||||||||
Chamber of Deputies
edit| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concertación | Christian Democratic Party | 1,162,210 | 18.92 | 23 | –15 | ||
| Party for Democracy | 782,333 | 12.73 | 20 | +4 | |||
| Socialist Party | 614,434 | 10.00 | 10 | –1 | |||
| Social Democratic Radical Party | 248,821 | 4.05 | 6 | +2 | |||
| Independents | 135,191 | 2.20 | 3 | +3 | |||
| Total | 2,942,989 | 47.90 | 62 | –7 | |||
| Alliance for Chile | Independent Democratic Union | 1,547,209 | 25.18 | 31 | +14 | ||
| National Renewal | 845,865 | 13.77 | 18 | –5 | |||
| Independents | 327,121 | 5.32 | 8 | +2 | |||
| Total | 2,720,195 | 44.27 | 57 | +10 | |||
| Communist Party | 320,688 | 5.22 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Humanist Party | 69,692 | 1.13 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Liberal Party | 3,475 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |||
| Independents | 86,964 | 1.42 | 1 | –1 | |||
| Total | 6,144,003 | 100.00 | 120 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 6,144,003 | 87.34 | |||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 890,289 | 12.66 | |||||
| Total votes | 7,034,292 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 8,075,446 | 87.11 | |||||
| Source: SERVEL | |||||||
References
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3