Elections in Pichilemu

This is a list of elections in Pichilemu, since the Chilean transition to democracy in 1989. Seventeen elections have occurred since then, including five municipal ones, and a special one in 2009, held in the Pichilemu City Council, which elected Roberto Córdova Carreño as mayor of the city, succeeding Marcelo Cabrera Martínez, elected in 2008, but held office for a short period of time.

Presidential elections

Presidential election, 1989

The presidential election of 1989 was held on that year's 14 December. There were three candidates: Hernán Büchi Buc, representing Democracy and Progress, currently known as the Alliance for Chile; Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera, founding member of the Progressive Union of the Centrist Center (UCC); and Patricio Aylwin Azócar, member of the Christian Democrat Party of the Concert of Parties for Democracy (Concertación).

The 1989 elections were the first since the Chilean transition to democracy, after a national plebiscite decided that the military regime of Augusto Pinochet would not continue, and that a president and a congress would be elected.

Patricio Aylwin was eventually elected president of Chile with a 55.17 per cent of the total valid votes, an absolute majority; in Pichilemu, he got a lesser percentage: 46.23; despite of this, he got the majority of votes.

Results

Presidential election, 1993

The second Chilean presidential election since the military regime of Augusto Pinochet ended was held on 11 December 1993. The President elected in this election would hold the office between 1994 and 2000.

There were six candidates for the presidency of Chile: Manfred Max-Neef, from the Ecologist Party (PE); Eugenio Pizarro Poblete, a Catholic priest, member of the Communist Party (PCCh); Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, son of former president Eduardo Frei Montalva, member of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) of the Concert of Parties for Democracy (Concertación); Cristián Reitze Campos, of the Humanist Party; Arturo Alessandri Besa, of the Alessandri family (grandson of former President Arturo Alessandri Palma and nephew of his son, also former President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez), member of the Independent Democrat Union; and José Piñera Echenique, brother of President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, as independent.

The elections were won by Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, who obtained the absolute majority in the national elections, getting 57.98 per cent of the total valid votes; in Pichilemu, he obtained an even larger percentage: 65.56%.

Results

Presidential election, 1999–2000

The third presidential election since 1989 took place on December 12, 1999. As Joaquín Lavín, candidate of the Alianza por Chile, and Ricardo Lagos, candidate of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia obtained nationally an absolute majority (each achieved about a 47 per cent), there was a runoff election on January 16, 2000; Lagos became the President-elect of Chile, being elected nationally with a 51.31% of the votes. Ricardo Lagos was sworn in on March 11, 2000.

There were, originally, two candidates representing the Concertación. Lagos, of the Socialist Party (PS), faced open primaries against Andrés Zaldívar, from the Christian Democrat Party (PDC). Lagos eventually won the national open primaries. On the other side, Lavín, member of the Independent Democrat Union (UDI) was the most popular candidate in the Alianza; previously, he had been mayor of Las Condes, and would become after the elections mayor of Santiago (elected in 2000), taking some "extravagant" measures such as creating a beach on the banks of the Mapocho River.

First round, 1999

The first round of the 1999 presidential election was held on that year's December 12. There were six candidates in the election: Arturo Frei Bolívar, from the Progressive Union of the Centrist Center (UCC); Sara Larraín Ruiz-Tagle, an independent politician; Gladys Marín Millie, from the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh); Tomás Hirsch Goldschmidt, of the Humanist Party of Chile (PH); Ricardo Lagos Escobar, of the Socialist Party of Chile (PS); and Joaquín Lavín Infante, from the Independent Democrat Union (UDI).

Together, Frei, Larraín, Marín, and Hirsch would received about a 4 per cent of the votes, while Ricardo Lagos and Joaquín Lavín received each a 47 per cent. As none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority nationally, a runoff election was scheduled for January 16, 2000.

In Pichilemu, the results were similar to the national scene, though not exactly the same: Frei, Larraín, Marín, and Hirsch together got about a 4 per cent; Joaquín Lavín achieved a 44.77 per cent of the vote; Ricardo Lagos, the Concertación candidate, obtained a 52.55 per cent of the vote, an absolute majority.

Results

Runoff, 2000

Results

Presidential election, 2005–2006

First round, 2005

Results

Runoff, 2006

Results

Presidential election, 2009–2010

First round, 2009

Results

Runoff, 2010

Results

Parliamentary elections

Parliamentary election, 1989

Results for Senators

Results for Deputies

Parliamentary election, 1993

Results for Deputies

Parliamentary election, 1997

Results for Senators

Results for Deputies

Parliamentary election, 2001

Results for Deputies

Parliamentary election, 2005

Results for Senators

Results for Deputies

Parliamentary election, 2009

Results for Deputies

Municipal elections

Municipal election, 1992

Results

Municipal election, 1996

Results

Municipal election, 2000

Results

Municipal election, 2004

Results for Mayors

Results for Councillor

Municipal election, 2008

Results for Mayors

Results for Councillor

Special elections

City council's mayor election, 2009

During a meeting of the Pichilemu City Council on September 1, 2009, and after several political controversies affected the municipality, the members of the council elected fellow councillor Roberto Córdova Carreño as the successor of Marcelo Cabrera Martínez as mayor of the city, since the latter was banned permanently from holding public offices; candidate for councillor of the city in the previous year's election Patricio Morales Acevedo succeeded Córdova, and assumed as such on October 16, 2009. The results of the election, according to Pichilemu News, are the following:

See also

• History of Pichilemu