2009 Chilean parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on December 13, 2009, in conjunction with the presidential election.[1] The totality of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 18 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election.

2009 Chilean parliamentary election
December 13, 2009
All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
18 out of 38 seats in the Senate
61 deputies and 20 senators seats needed for a majority
Turnout87.70%
  First party Second party
 
Party Concert & Together We Can Coalition for Change
Last election 65 D & 20 S, 51.76% 54 D & 17 S, 38.72%
Seats won 57 D / 19 S 58 D / 16 S
Seat change 8 D / 1 S 4 D / 1 S
Deputies' vote 2,934,378 2,874,674
Percentage 44.35% 43.45%
Swing 7.41 pp 4.38 pp
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The centre-right Coalition for Change improved on the Alliance for Chile's result in 2005 by winning 58 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, while the governing center-left Concertación (CPD) was reduced to 57 seats. The election was notable because the election of three communist MP's (Jorge Teillier, Hugo Gutiérrez and Lautaro Carmona) and the defeat of the current Speaker of the Chamber Rodrigo Álvarez (UDI) in hands of a younger (RN) Marcela Sabat. Also is disappointing to the Government not to be able to break the dubbing of the center-right in Las Condes. In the career to the Senate the surprise was Joaquín Lavín's defeat.

Legislation

According to the Chilean Constitution, the citizens could exercise the right to suffrage, or, those who have expired 18 years of age and have not been condemned to a sorrow superior to 3 years of prison (a distressing sorrow). To take part in the elections it was needed to be before inscribed in the electoral records and to present the bond of identity. The requirements to register were a 18-year-old major being in the day of the election and to have Chilean nationality or to be a resident foreigner for more than five years in the country (that one credits with a certificate expressed by the respective provincial governor). The right to vote was remaining suspended by interdiction in case of dementia, for being accused by crime that deserves a distressing sorrow or for crime for terrorism and for sanction of the Constitutional Court (in conformity to the article 19 n. º 15 clause 7. º of the Constitution).

In agreement to the legislation of the epoch, the process of inscription in the electoral records was voluntary, but after having registered, the elector was forced to support to perpetuity and only it could apologize for reasons of health or for being located to more than 300 kilometres of distance of the place of voting, fact of the one that can leave witness him in the Carabineers' most nearby unit of Chile. In case of not helping or not to take up office as member of table, the electors could be condemned to the payment of fines. Though on March 27, 2009 there was promulgated by the chairwoman Michelle Bachelet the law that establishes the automatic inscription of the voters and that allows the voluntary voting of these, 4 the entry in force of the above mentioned regulation was not applicable in these elections due to the lack of the law that was regulating sayings procesos.5 The election with voluntary vote materialized in the municipal elections of 2012.

Candidates

Concert & Together We Can fore more democracy
The Former presidents of Chile, together in a Concertación Conference in 2009.

The A list conformed after the union of two political coalitions that had taken part separately in the elections of 2005. On one hand the Concert of parties for democracy, which was grouping to the center-left parties that since 1990 governed the country. In the other hand the left-wing Together We Can More, that it suffered an internal division after the exit of the Humanist Party.

The reason of this strange union was, the Binomial System that get out the political left from the National Congress since 1994.

The largest party inside the A list was the Christian Democrats, with the leadership of Juan Carlos Latorre who was chief of the Eduardo Frei's presidential campaign. The Socialists joined with the senator Camilo Escalona, PPD with the deputy Pepe Auth. The Radicals led by Senator Gómez, and the Communist Party with the leadership of Guillermo Teillier.

Coalition for Change
Presentation of the Coalition for the Change. Fernando Flores speaks.

The Alliance for Chile for the elections of 2009, began with an important step, by means of I arrive of two precandidates, one of them the senator Pablo Longueira, and the mayor of Concepción, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, both of the Independent Democratic Union, who demonstrated his availability of postulating to this post, using the regular conduits inside the coalition, nevertheless, both rejected such an option to present only a presidential candidate, who would be Sebastián Piñera.

In March, 2009, two Congressmen of the Alliance for Chile obtained the speaker of the Senate and the speaker of the Deputies' Chamber, by means of an agreement with the independent bench and with the Concert, respectively. The above mentioned agreements were not lacking in polemic, since the Senator who postulated the alliance to preside at the above mentioned organism, Jovino Novoa, was duramente criticized for personeros of the Concert in view of his past as member of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime.

In spite of the critiques, the Alliance for Chile awarded a political victory on having presided at both chambers of the National Congress and some of the most influential commissions of the same one, which, they waited in the conglomerate opponent, he was benefiting Sebastián Piñera's candidacy.

After having integrated the list Clean Chile, Vote Happy, one was generated fail between the charter members of ChileFirst with regard to the position that would take the party opposite to the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2009. Whereas Jorge Schaulsohn and Senator Flores supported the candidate of the Alliance for Chile Sebastián Piñera,[2] the deputy Esteban Valenzuela rejected to join with the center-right and resigned ChileFirst to endorse Marco Enríquez-Ominami's candidacy.[3] The support to Piñera on the part of ChileFirst was made official on May 6, 2009, when one presented the "Coalition for the Change", electoral agreement between the Alliance for Chile, ChileFirst and other political minor movements.

New Majority for Chile

New Majority for Chile was a political coalition that grouped the Ecologist party of Chile, the Humanist Party of Chile, and diverse political and independent movements that supported the candidacy of the independent Marco Enríquez-Ominami for the presidential election of 2009. Between the movements and groups without political legal constitution that they it shaped are the Regionalist Movement,[4] the Movement Unified of Sexual Minorities (MUMS),[5] the Movement SurDA and the Progressist Network.[6]

Slogans
Party Slogan
Christian DemocratWith you, will live better. Live dreaming a new sun
Radical Social DemocratA change must be Radical
SocialistSocialist Heart
PPDLet's break the Ice
Communist¡United we can!
RNWith your vote today it's possible
UDIThe motor of popular change.
RegionalistWe are hope, We are future
HumanistWe are the new majority

Chilean Chamber of Deputies elections
↓
58 2 3 57
Coalition for Change Ind PRI Concert & Together We Can
↓
37 18 3 2 3 19 18 11 5 3 1
UDI RN   Ind PRI PDC PPD PS PRSD PC  
 Official and final results.[7]
List Parties Candidates
 Number of votes
 % of votes
 Elected
 Net change
in seats
 % of seats
 Change in %
of vote
  Concert & Together We Can for more democracy Total List A1202,934,37844.357-847.5+0.7%
Christian Democratic 39940,26514.219-115.8-6.5%
For Democracy 27839,74412.718-315.0-2.7%
Socialist 24653,3679.911-49.2-0.2%
Social Democrat Radical 14251,4563.85-24.2+0.3%
Communist 9133,7182.03+32.5-3.1%
List A Independents 5115,8281.71-10.8-0.2%
  Coalition for Change Total List B1202,874,67443.458+448.3+4.4%
UDI 561,525,00023.137+430.8+0.7%
National Renewal 511,178,39217.818-115.0+3.7%
ChileFirst 418,0210.20-0.0-
List B Independents 9153,2612.33+12.5+1%
  Clean Chile, Vote Happy Total List D92356,7985.43-2.5-
Regionalist 63264,4664.03-2.5-
MAS 726,4400.40-0.0-
List D Independents 2265,8921.00-0.0-
  New Majority for Chile Total List C79302,6274.60-0.0-
Humanist 3895,1771.40-0.0-0.1%
Ecologist 23,8150.10-0.0-
List C Independents 39206,6353.10-0.0-
Independents out of pact 18147,3792.22+21.67+1.3%
Total4296,615,856100.0120100.0

List of elected deputies 2010-2014
DistrictDeputyPartyVotes%
1[d] Orlando Vargas Pizarro Ind-PPD 22 425 30,01 %
Nino Baltolú Rasera UDI 17 644 23,61 %
2[d] Hugo Gutiérrez Gálvez PCCh 28 217 30,31 %
Marta Isasi Barbieri Ind-UDI 28 884 31,02 %
3[d] Felipe Ward Edwards UDI 24 618 37,36 %
Marcos Espinoza Monardes PRSD 16 223 24,62 %
4[d] Pedro Araya Guerrero PRI 27 268 24,60 %
Manuel Rojas Molina UDI 37 241 33,59 %
5[d] Lautaro Carmona Soto PCCh 17 022 27,87 %
Carlos Vilches Guzmán UDI 13 159 21,55 %
6[d] Giovanni Calderón Bassi UDI 8 330 19,26 %
Alberto Robles Pantoja PRSD 11 582 26,77 %
7[d] Marcelo Díaz Díaz PS 32 673 36,74 %
Mario Bertolino Rendic RN 18 037 20,28 %
8[d] Matías Walker Prieto DC 28 948 27,21 %
Pedro Velásquez Seguel Ind. 25 919 24,37 %
9[d] Adriana Muñoz D'Albora PPD 15 332 25,29 %
Luis Lemus Aracena PRI 15 735 25,95 %
10[d] Eduardo Cerda García DC 30 017 21,94 %
Andrea Molina Oliva Ind-UDI 36 000 26,31 %
11[d] Gaspar Rivas Sánchez RN 21 634 20,22 %
Marco Antonio Núñez Lozano PPD 49 801 46,55 %
12[d] Arturo Squella Ovalle UDI 30 108 24,75 %
Marcelo Schilling Rodríguez PS 24 124 19,83 %
13[d] Aldo Cornejo Gonález DC 40 582 31,04 %
Joaquín Godoy Ibáñez RN 38 183 29,20 %
14[d] Rodrigo González Torres PPD 41 168 25,89 %
Edmundo Eluchans Urenda UDI 45 829 28,82 %
15[d] Víctor Torres Jeldes DC 18 102 21,11 %
María José Hoffmann Opazo UDI 20 585 24,00 %
16[d] Gabriel Silber Romo DC 48 333 29,39 %
Patricio Melero Abaroa UDI 58 306 35,45 %
17[d] Karla Rubilar Barahona RN 46 572 33,15 %
María Antonieta Saa Díaz PPD 45 798 32,60 %
18[d] Cristina Girardi Lavín PPD 51 669 34,35 %
Nicolás Monckeberg Díaz RN 40 782 27,11 %
19[d] Patricio Hales Dib PPD 39 126 38,12 %
Claudia Nogueira Fernández UDI 38 297 37,31 %
20[d] Pepe Auth Stewart PPD 49 981 20,70 %
Mónica Zalaquett Said UDI 56 168 23,26 %
21[d] Jorge Burgos Varela DC 52 982 29,79 %
Marcela Sabat Fernández RN 48 732 27,40 %
22[d] Felipe Harboe Bascuñán PPD 42 060 38,66 %
Alberto Cardemil Herrera RN 38 949 35,80 %
23[d] Ernesto Silva Méndez UDI 60 272 27,95 %
Cristián Monckeberg Bruner RN 77 484 35,93 %
24[d] Enrique Accorsi Opazo PPD 31 383 23,19 %
María Angélica Cristi Marfil UDI 44 969 33,24 %
25[d] Ximena Vidal Lázaro PPD 43 794 30,81 %
Felipe Salaberry Soto UDI 28 444 20,01 %
26[d] Carlos Montes Cisternas PS 71 173 50,44 %
Gustavo Hasbún Selume UDI 36 438 25,82 %
27[d] Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes PPD 47 765 31,89 %
Iván Moreira Barros UDI 53 683 35,84 %
28[d] Guillermo Teillier del Valle PCCh 49 040 33,52 %
Pedro Browne Urrejola RN 31 882 21,79 %
29[d] Osvaldo Andrade Lara PS 55 152 29,88 %
Leopoldo Pérez Lahsen RN 45 464 24,63 %
30[d] Ramón Farías Ponce PPD 29 335 19,27 %
José Antonio Kast Rist UDI 53 423 35,10 %
DistrictDeputyPartyVotes%
31[d] Denise Pascal Allende PS 52 763 32,23 %
Gonzalo Uriarte Herrera UDI 60 833 37,16 %
32[d] Juan Luis Castro González PS 27 772 30,76 %
Alejandro García-Huidobro UDI 31 346 34,71 %
33[d] Ricardo Rincón González DC 38 057 32,45 %
Eugenio Bauer Jouanne UDI 26 504 22,60 %
34[d] Alejandra Sepúlveda Orbenes PRI 42 771 45,55 %
Javier Macaya Danús UDI 17 130 18,24 %
35[d] Juan Carlos Latorre Carmona DC 30 300 38,83 %
Ramón Barros Montero UDI 29 622 37,96 %
36[d] Roberto León Ramírez DC 51 476 42,93 %
Celso Morales Muñoz UDI 35 732 29,80 %
37[d] Sergio Aguiló Melo PS 31 649 37,69 %
Germán Verdugo Soto RN 32 864 39,14 %
38[d] Pablo Lorenzini Basso DC 29 320 38,32 %
Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca Ramírez Ind-UDI 15 844 20,71 %
39[d] Jorge Tarud Daccarett PPD 38 626 46,26 %
Romilio Gutiérrez Pino UDI 22 487 26,93 %
40[d] Guillermo Ceroni Fuentes PPD 32 643 44,75 %
Ignacio Urrutia Bonilla UDI 19 323 26,49 %
41[d] Carlos Abel Jarpa Wevar PRSD 24 093 19,12 %
Rosauro Martínez Labbé RN 42 385 33,64 %
42[d] Jorge Sabag Villalobos DC 32 174 28,59 %
Frank Sauerbaum Muñoz RN 22 861 20,33 %
43[d] Cristián Campos Jara PPD 33 622 31,35 %
Jorge Ulloa Aguillón UDI 30 309 28,26 %
44[d] José Miguel Ortiz Novoa DC 45 379 27,04 %
Enrique van Rysselberghe Herrera UDI 44 735 26,65 %
45[d] Clemira Pacheco Rivas PS 38 379 33,80 %
Sergio Bobadilla Muñoz UDI 29 272 25,78 %
46[d] Iván Norambuena Farías UDI 34 852 35,77 %
Manuel Monsalve Benavides PS 30 360 31,16 %
47[d] José Pérez Arriagada PRSD 46 606 33,80 %
Juan Lobos Krause UDI 51 937 37,67 %
48[d] Mario Venegas Cárdenas DC 20 102 29,80 %
Gonzalo Arenas Hodar UDI 17 223 25,54 %
49[d] Fuad Chahín Valenzuela DC 20 212 30,26 %
Enrique Estay Peñaloza UDI 16 009 23,97 %
50[d] René Saffirio Espinoza DC 37 017 30,83 %
Germán Becker Alvear RN 33 785 28,14 %
51[d] Joaquín Tuma Zedán PPD 16 327 24,36 %
José Manuel Edwards Silva RN 11 275 16,82 %
52[d] Fernando Meza Moncada PRSD 22 116 32,72 %
René Manuel García García RN 20 726 30,66 %
53[d] Alfonso de Urresti Longton PS 32 433 38,71 %
Roberto Delmastro Naso RN 25 360 30,27 %
54[d] Enrique Jaramillo Becker PPD 29 004 37,43 %
Gastón von Mühlenbrock Zamora UDI 19 978 25,78 %
55[d] Sergio Ojeda Uribe DC 23 623 30,44 %
Javier Hernández Hernández UDI 22 108 28,49 %
56[d] Fidel Espinoza Sandoval PS 39 245 51,30 %
Carlos Rencodo Lavanderos UDI 18 792 24,57 %
57[d] Patricio Vallespín López DC 33 782 38,60 %
Marisol Turres Figueroa UDI 28 552 32,62 %
58[d] Gabriel Ascencio Mansilla DC 17 457 23,10 %
Alejandro Santana Tirachini RN 27 098 35,86 %
59[d] René Alinco Bustos PPD 9381 22,90 %
David Sandoval Plaza UDI 12 902 31,50 %
60[d] Carolina Goic Boroevic DC 22 498 34,00 %
Miodrag Marinovic Solo De Zaldívar Ind. 17 512 26,47 %

Chilean Senate elections
↓
17 1 19 1
Coalition for Change Ind Concert & Together We Can  
↓
8 8 1 1 9 1 4 5 1
UDI RN   Ind PDC   PPD PS  
 Includes results from 9,793 out of 9,934 ballot boxes (98.58%). (Source: Interior Ministry.)
List Parties Candidates Elected (2009) Old seats (2005) Total seats % of Seats Net Change
in seats		 % of Votes Number of Votes
Concert & Together We Can for more democracy Total List A189101950.0-143.3820,147
Christian Democratic 845923.7+316.6314,145
For Democracy 431410.5+113.8262,503
Socialist 423513.2-39.2175,017
Social Democrat Radical 20112.6-23.668,482
Coalition for Change Total List B17971642.1-145.2856,593
National Renewal || 8 || 6 || 2 || 8 || 21.0||||20.2||382,728
UDI || 7|| 3 || 5 || 8 || 21.0||-1||21.3||403,741
Independents List B20000.03.770,124
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Total List D100112.6-16.4122,041
Regionalist || 6 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0.0 ||-1||2.4||46,730
MAS || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2.6||||colspan=2|Did not contest
Independents List D40000.04.075,311
New Majority for Chile Total List C70000.04.992,240
Humanist || 4 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0.0||||0.7||12,974
Independents List C30000.04.279,266
  Independents out of pact10112.60.24,461

Tarapacá-Arica and Parinacota
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change UDI Jaime Orpis 56,390 33.5 Hold his seat
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Independent Salvador Urrutia 47,087 29.3
Concertación Socialist Fulvio Rossi 45,639 26.8 New senator
Coalition for Change National Renewal Julio Lagos 12,348 7.3
Concertación Christian Democratic Daniel Espinoza 6,919 4.1

Atacama
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change National Renewal Baldo Prokurica 34,79333.0 Hold his seat
Concertación Socialist Isabel Allende Bussi 28,24026.8 New senator
Concertación For Democracy Antonio Leal 19,69318.7
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Jaime Mulet Martínez 18,58017.6
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Robinson Peña 2,1262.0
Coalition for Change UDI Cristián Letelier 1,9091.8

Valparaiso East
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Concertación Christian Democratic Ignacio Walker 76,71621.1 New senator
Concertación Social Democrat Radical Nelson Ávila 64,12417.6 Lost his seat
Coalition for Change UDI Marcelo Forni 71,64519.7
Coalition for Change National Renewal Lily Pérez 83,59523.0 New senator
New Majority for Chile Independent Carlos Ominami 60,94516.7
New Majority for Chile Independent Cristián García-Huidobro 2,5090.7
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Independent Lautaro Velásquez 4,4221.2

Valparaíso West
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Concertación For Democracy Ricardo Lagos Weber 123,62633.2 New senator
Coalition for Change National Renewal Francisco Chahuán 105,12328.2 New senator
Coalition for Change UDI Joaquín Lavín 103,76227.9
Concertación Christian Democratic Hernán Pinto 22,4476.00
New Majority for Chile Independent Juan Guzmán 14,7844.0
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Raúl Silva 2,7730.7

Maule North
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change UDI Juan Antonio Coloma 96,84435.2 Hold his seat
Concertación Christian Democratic Andrés Zaldívar 86,26631.3 Holding in a new seat
Concertación Socialist Jaime Gazmuri 67,58624.6 Lost his seat
Coalition for Change National Renewal Robert Morrison 17,5486.3
New Majority for Chile Humanist Mercedes Bravo 6,9422.5

Maule South
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change UDI Hernán Larraín 67,46143.1 Hold his seat
Concertación Christian Democratic Ximena Rincón 48,60731.0 New senator
Concertación Socialist Jaime Naranjo 32,86721.0 Lost his seat
Coalition for Change Independent Juan Ariztía 6,1103.9
New Majority for Chile Humanist Marilén Cabrera 1,5671.0

Araucanía North
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change National Renewal Alberto Espina 52,08238.5 Hold his seat
Concertación For Democracy Jaime Quintana 40,12029.7 New senator
Concertación Christian Democratic Tomás Jocelyn-Holt 7,4815.5
Coalition for Change Independent Cecilia Villouta 7,2555.4
New Majority for Chile Humanist Juan Enrique Prieto 1,6111.2
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Independent Roberto Muñoz 20,12614.9
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Independent Enrique Sanhueza 6,5744.9
Source[8]

Araucanía South
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Concertación For Democracy Eugenio Tuma Zedan 74,20729.1 New senator
Coalition for Change National Renewal José García Ruminot 57,26022.4 Hold his seat
Coalition for Change UDI Ena von Baer 56,57822.2
Concertación Christian Democratic Francisco Huenchumilla 51,33820.1
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Eduardo Díaz 11,4644.5
New Majority for Chile Humanist Luis Fernando Vivanco 2,7791.1
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Independent José Villagrán 1,5120.6
Source[9]

Aysen
 
Pact Party Candidate Votes % Result
Coalition for Change National Renewal Antonio Horvath 14,19334.6 Hold his seat
Concertación Christian Democratic Patricio Walker 11,29327.5 New senator
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Eduardo Cruces 6,95817.0
Clean Chile, Vote Happy Regionalist Paz Foitzich 4,61311.2
Concertación Social Democrat Radical Ernesto Velasco 3,9409.6
Source[10]

References
  1. Cronograma Electoral Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Servel
  2. Infinita, Schaulsohn se Asume Piñerista Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. La Nación, Valenzuela dejó Chile Primero por apoyo a Piñera
  4. http://www.regionalistas.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=28%5B%5D Acuerdo entre el el PH, PE, el Movimiento Regionalista, Progresistas en Red y el MUMS
  5. http://www.mums.cl/sitio/contenidos/noticias/not_2009_09_14_01.htm Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Mums inscribe candidatos por la diversidad sexual al Parlamento
  6. http://www.tomashirsch.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=216:fuerzas-progresistas-alternativas-y-de-izquierda-acuerdan-lista-parlamentaria-que-busca-aglutinar-nueva-mayoria-&catid=9:noticias%5B%5D Acuerdan lista parlamentaria para aglutinar nueva mayoría
  7. Tricel via Interior Ministry Archived 2012-11-12 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. "Votación Candidatos por Circunscripción 14". Sitio histórico electoral. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  9. Elecciones.gov.cl Archived 2010-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Votación candidatos por Cicunscripción 15, La Araucanía Sur, senadores 2009
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