Chilean parliamentary election, 2005

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The 2005 Chilean parliamentary election took place on December 11, 2005, in conjunction with the presidential election. All of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were contested, while 20 out of 38 seats in the Senate were up for election (even-numbered regions and the metropolitan region). Deputies serve for a period of four years, while senators serve for a period of eight years. Reelection is permitted.

According to national legislation, all Chilean citizens may participate in the election (that is, all Chilean nationals over the age of 18 qualified by law to do so), as well as foreign residents with over five years of stay in the country (under certain conditions). In any case, all electors must register first in the Electoral Register if they want to vote. Once registered, voting is mandatory. Over seven million people voted in the election (less than half of the total population).

Major parties

The Chamber of Deputies prior to this election was composed of 62 CPD deputies (23 Christian Democrats, 20 PPD, ten Socialists, six PRSD and three independents), 57 APC deputies (31 UDI, 18 RN and eight independents) and one independent (off-pact).

The Senate prior to this election was composed of 38 directly elected senators and nine non-elected senators (institutional senators, or senators for life). Among the elected, 20 seats are held by the CPD (eleven Christian Democrats, five Socialists, three PPD and one PRSD) and 18 by the APC (six independents, six UDI and six RN). A constitutional reform in 2005 eliminated non-elected senators starting on March 11, 2006, the day the newly elected senators were sworn in.

Of the Senate seats being contested, eleven were held by the CPD (ten Christian Democrats and one Socialist) and nine by the APC (four independents, three UDI and two RN).

Election results

Elected candidates

These results are based on official information given by the Election Qualifier Tribunal (Tricel) on January 29, 2006.

Elected candidates appear in bold. (R) indicates candidates running for reelection. Strikethrough names indicate candidacies rejected by the Electoral Service (Servel).

Chamber of Deputies

Dist.	Democratic Coalition	Alliance	Together We Can Do More	Independent Regional Force	Independents
1	Rolando Caviedes (PDC)	Ximena Valcarce (RN)	Juan Riveros (PC)	Bernardo Olivos (PAR)	Nino Baltolú
	(R) Iván Paredes (PS)	(R) Rosa González (UDI)	Ricardo Pacheco (PH)	Wanda Clemente (Ind.)
2	Raúl Bagioli (PDC)	Espártago Ferrari (RN)	Pedro Cisterna (PC)	Marta Isasi (PAR)	none
	(R) Fulvio Rossi (PS)	Julio Lagos (UDI)	Sara Chávez (Ind.)	Eduardo Alberto Prieto (PAR)
3	(R) Waldo Mora (PDC)	Raúl Salinas (RN)	Daniel Ramírez (PC)	Jorge Godoy (Ind.)	Esteban Velásquez
	Marcos Espinosa (PRSD)	Felipe Ward (UDI)	Francisco Avendaño (PH)	Miguel Urrelo (Ind.)
4	(R) Pedro Araya (PDC)	Daniel Guevara (Ind.)	Luis Sagredo (PC)	Raúl Zepeda (Ind.)	none
	Hernán Rivera (Ind.)	(R) Manuel Rojas (UDI)	Pedro Luque (PH)	Rosa Pérez (Ind.)
5	Erick Villegas (PDC)	René Aedo (RN)	Gastón Quezada (PC)	Jorge Cuello (PAR)	Carlos Vilches
	(R) Antonio Leal (PPD)	Alberto Calvo (UDI)	Carlos Toro (PH)
6	(R) Jaime Mulet (PDC)	Berta Torres (RN)	Isabel Irribarren (PC)	Cristián Tapia (Ind.)	none
	(R) Alberto Robles (PRSD)	José Luis Uriarte (UDI)	Lorena Ortega (PH)
7	Ricardo Cifuentes (PDC)	(R) Mario Bertolino (RN)	Eric Campos (PC)	none	none
	Marcelo Díaz (PS)	Francisco Eguiguren (UDI)	Luis Vega (PC)
8	(R) Patricio Walker (PDC)	Alberto Gallardo (RN)	Miguel Solís (PC)	none	none
	(R) Francisco Encina (PS)	Fernando Cordero (UDI)	Mario González (PH)
9	Renán Fuentealba (PDC)	Fernando Goncalves (RN)	Julio Ugas (PC)	none	Agapito Santander
	(R) Adriana Muñoz (PPD)	(R) Darío Molina (UDI)	Rubén Ruiz (PC)
10	(R) María Eugenia Mella (PDC)	(R) Alfonso Vargas (RN)	Daniel Jadué (PC)	none	none
	Marco Enríquez-Ominami (PS)	Alfonso Ríos (UDI)	Jaime Romero (PH)
11	(R) Patricio Cornejo (PDC)	Gaspar Rivas (RN)	Mario Méndez (PC)	none	none
	Marco Núñez (PPD)	(R) Marcelo Forni (UDI)	Carlos Muñoz (PH)
12	Humberto de la Maza (PDC)	Amelia Herrera (RN)	Danilo Ahumada (PC)	none	none
	(R) Juan Bustos (PS)	Osvaldo Urrutia (UDI)	Martín Ristempart (PH)
13	Álex Avsolomovich (PDC)	Joaquín Godoy (RN)	Óscar Aroca (PC)	none	none
	(R) Laura Soto (PPD)	Luis Parot (UDI)	Rafael Henríquez (PH)
14	Raúl Allard (PDC)	Francisco Chahuán (RN)	Felipe Zavala (PC)	none	none
	(R) Rodrigo González (PPD)	(R) Gonzalo Ibáñez (UDI)	Luis Aravena (Ind.)
15	Osvaldo Badenier (PDC)	(R) Carlos Hidalgo (Ind.)	Maximiliano Miranda (PC)	none	Sergio Velasco
	(R) Samuel Venegas (PRSD)	Edmundo Eluchans (UDI)	Aníbal Reyna (Ind.)
16	Gabriel Silber (PDC)	Peter Retamales (RN)	Carmen Hertz (PC)	none	none
	Fanny Pollarolo (PS)	(R) Patricio Melero (UDI)	Osvaldo Toro (PH)
17	Sergio Espejo (PDC)	Karla Rubilar (RN)	Jorge Insunza (PC)	none	none
	(R) María Antonieta Saa (PPD)	Álvaro Cruzat (UDI)	Juan López (PH)
18	(R) Carlos Olivares (PDC)	Pedro Pablo Díaz (RN)	Óscar Hernández (PC)	none	none
	Guido Girardi Briere (PPD)	Miguel Schweitzer (UDI)	José Antonio Salinas (PH)
19	Mauricio Castro (PDC)	Pablo Rochet (RN)	Germán Llanca (Ind.)	none	Alejandro Reyes
	(R) Patricio Hales (PPD)	Claudia Nogueira (UDI)	Nicolás García (Ind.)
20	Luis Pareto (PDC)	Roberto Sepúlveda (RN)	Juan Andrés Lagos (PC)	none	none
	Álvaro Escobar (PPD)	(R) Mario Varela (UDI)	Valdemar Sanhueza (Ind.)
21	(R) Jorge Burgos (PDC)	Juan Guillermo Vivado (RN)	Jaime Gajardo (PC)	none	none
	Patricia Silva (PS)	(R) Marcela Cubillos (UDI)	Juan Carlos Gálvez (PH)
22	Ricardo Hormazábal (PDC)	Carmen Ibáñez (RN)	Claudia Pascual (PC)	none	none
	(R) Carolina Tohá (PPD)	(R) Alberto Cardemil (Ind.)	Claudia Manríquez (PH)
23	Clemente Pérez (PDC)	Cristián Monckeberg (RN)	Antonieta Vera (PC)	none	none
	Leopoldo Sánchez (PPD)	(R) Julio Dittborn (UDI)	Carlos Padilla (PH)
24	Marigen Hornkohl (PDC)	Francisco López (RN)	Francisco Villa (PC)	none	none
	(R) Enrique Accorsi (PPD)	(R) María Angélica Cristi (UDI)	Susana Córdova (PH)
25	Marcelo Ortiz (PDC)	Raquel Argandoña (RN)	Amaro Labra (PC)	none	José Pedro Weinstein
	(R) Ximena Vidal (PPD)	(R) Felipe Salaberry (UDI)	Juan Enrique Prieto (PH)
26	Gonzalo Duarte (PDC)	Miguel Navarro (RN)	Julio Oliva (PC)	none	Pedro Ávalos
	(R) Carlos Montes (PS)	Gustavo Alessandri (UDI)	Raúl Florcita Alarcón (PH)
27	(R) Eliana Caraball (PDC)	Carlos Contreras (RN)	Ercides Martínez (PC)	none	none
	Tucapel Jiménez (Ind.)	(R) Iván Moreira (UDI)	Mónica Quilodrán (Ind.)
28	(R) Rodolfo Seguel (PDC)	Julio Ibarra (RN)	Eduardo Contreras (PC)	none	none
	Jorge Insunza (PPD)	(R) Darío Paya (UDI)	Claudina Núñez (PC)
29	Teresa Montrone (PDC)	(R) Maximiano Errázuriz (RN)	Manuel Hernández (PC)	none	none
	(R) Isabel Allende (PS)	Pablo Desbordes (UDI)	Patricio Bell (PH)
30	(R) Edgardo Riveros (PDC)	Rosa Oyarce (RN)	Sergio Castro (PC)	none	none
	Ramón Farías (PPD)	(R) José Antonio Kast (UDI)	Tania Figueroa (PH)
31	Francisco Puga (PDC)	Alberto Haddad (RN)	Marcela Mallea (PC)	none	none
	Denise Pascal (PS)	(R) Gonzalo Uriarte (UDI)	Luis Leoncio Álvarez (PH)
32	Juan Ramón Godoy (Ind.)	Luis Díaz (RN)	Pedro Aravena (PC)	none	none
	(R) Esteban Valenzuela (PPD)	(R) Alejandro García-Huidobro (UDI)	Guido Oyarzún (PH)
33	Carlos Dupré (PDC)	Félix Ortiz (Ind.)	Carlos Poblete (PC)	none	none
	Alejandro Sule (PRSD)	(R) Eugenio Bauer (UDI)	Sergio Mella (PH)
34	(R) Alejandra Sepúlveda (PDC)	Rodrigo Montt (Ind.)	José Figueroa (PC)	none	none
	Alba Gallardo (PS)	(R) Juan Masferrer (UDI)	José Tejo (PH)
35	Juan Carlos Latorre (PDC)	César Molfino (Ind.)	Patricio Martínez (PC)	none	none
	Rubén Andino (PS)	(R) Ramón Barros (UDI)	Mauro Pantoja (PH)
36	Roberto León (PDC)	Matías Carrozzi (RN)	Wladimir Pulgar (PC)	none	Moisés Lucero
	Raúl Bravo (PS)	(R) Sergio Correa (UDI)	María Eliana Astaburuaga (PH)
37	Christian Suárez (PDC)	Germán Verdugo (RN)	Edgardo Cáceres (PC)	none	none
	(R) Sergio Aguiló (PS)	(R) Pablo Prieto (UDI)	Óscar Vega (Ind.)
38	(R) Pablo Lorenzini (PDC)	(R) Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca (RN)	José Oróstica (PC)	none	none
	Roberto Celedón (Ind.)	Eduardo Prieto (UDI)	Marcelo Mardones (Ind.)
39	Yenny Molina (Ind.)	(R) Osvaldo Palma (RN)	Mario Ibarra (PC)	none	none
	(R) Jorge Tarud (PPD)	Christian Chadwick (UDI)	Roberto Gutiérrez (PH)
40	Ulises Urzúa (Ind.)	Juan Carlos Muñoz (RN)	Edgar Cifuentes (PC)	none	none
	(R) Guillermo Ceroni (PPD)	(R) Ignacio Urrutia (UDI)	Juan Carlos Márquez (Ind.)
41	Claudio Huepe (PDC)	(R) Rosauro Martínez (RN)	Cristián Muñoz (PC)	none	none
	(R) Carlos Abel Jarpa (PRSD)	Alejandro Arrau (UDI)	Claudio Ávila (Ind.)
42	Jorge Sabag (PDC)	(R) Nicolás Monckeberg (RN)	Luis Soto (PC)	none	José Roberto Santos
	(R) Felipe Letelier (PPD)	René Barba (UDI)	Camilo Cabezas (PH)
43	Sergio Micco (PDC)	Frank Sauerbaum (RN)	Alejandro Sepúlveda (PC)	none	Patricio Pinto
	Raúl Súnico (PS)	(R) Jorge Ulloa (UDI)	Patricia Beltrán (PH)		Elicia Herrera
44	(R) José Miguel Ortiz (PDC)	Francisca Van Rysselberghe (Ind.)	Freddy Cabrera (PC)	none	Félix González
	Maria Angélica Fuentes (PPD)	(R) Andrés Egaña (UDI)	Loreto Muñoz (PH)
45	Germán Acuña (PDC)	Bernardo Ulloa (Ind.)	Iván Quintana (PC)	none	none
	Clemira Pacheco (PS)	Sergio Bobadilla (UDI)	Isaías Gutiérrez (Ind.)
46	Edmundo Salas (PDC)	Ana Eugenia García Aillón (RN)	Guillermo Teillier (PC)	none	none
	Manuel Monsalve (PS)	(R) Iván Norambuena (UDI)	Jorge Venegas (Ind.)
47	Marcelo Urrutia (PDC)	Gonzalo Arellano (RN)	Julio Aránguiz (PC)	none	none
	(R) José Pérez (PRSD)	Juan Lobos (UDI)	Jorge Monje (PH)
48	Mario Venegas (PDC)	(R) Francisco Bayo (RN)	Domingo Marileo (PC)	Romnel Edgardo Aravena (ANI)	Sofía Painiqueo
	Ricardo Navarrete (PRSD)	Gonzalo Arenas (UDI)	Juan Varela (Ind.)
49	Víctor Gárate (PDC)	Cristián Barra (RN)	Mauricio Teillier (PC)	Julio Villablanca (ANI)	none
	(R) Jaime Quintana (PPD)	Enrique Estay (UDI)	Mario Poo (Ind.)	Eduardo Díaz (Ind.)
50	(R) Eduardo Saffirio (PDC)	(R) Germán Becker (RN)	Javier Chávez (PC)	Guillermo Allende (ANI)	Sergio Castillo
	Carlos González (PRSD)	Gonzalo Navarrete (UDI)	Carlos Carter (PH)		Luis Seguel
51	(R) Eduardo Díaz (Ind.)	Hernán Viguera (RN)	Antonieta Faúndez (PC)	Laura Soto Ibacache (ANI)	Fernando Troncoso
	(R) Eugenio Tuma (PPD)	René Fernández (UDI)	Jorge Zambrano (PH)
52	Mario Acuña (PDC)	(R) René Manuel García (RN)	Francisco Painevilo (PC)	Miguel Ángel Arteaga (ANI)	none
	(R) Fernando Meza (PRSD)	Alejandro Martini (UDI)	Pablo González (PH)
53	(R) Exequiel Silva (PDC)	(R) Roberto Delmastro (Ind.)	Marcia Klein (PC)	Fredi Kirshbom (ANI)	none
	Alfonso de Urresti (PS)	Sebastián Donoso (UDI)	Beatriz Hermosilla (Ind.)
54	Ricardo Halabí (PDC)	Ewald Wittke (RN)	Pedro Ruiz (PC)	Félix Montiel (ANI)	none
	(R) Enrique Jaramillo (PPD)	(R) Gastón Von Muhlenbrock (UDI)		Guillermo Holtheuer (Ind.)
55	(R) Sergio Ojeda (PDC)	Beatriz Díaz (Ind.)	Patricio Miranda (PC)	Jaime Moreira (Ind.)	none
	Fernando Soto (PS)	(R) Javier Hernández (UDI)	Claudio Soto (Ind.)
56	Carlos Tudela (PDC)	Harry Jurgensen (RN)	Andrea Oyarzún (PC)	Jorge Blaessinger (Ind.)	none
	(R) Fidel Espinoza (PS)	(R) Carlos Recondo (UDI)	Antonio Caileo (Ind.)
57	Patricio Vallespín (PDC)	Eduardo Becker (RN)	Renato Alvarado (PC)	Pablo Muñoz (Ind.)	none
	Sergio Galilea (PPD)	Marisol Turres (UDI)
58	(R) Gabriel Ascencio (PDC)	Alejandro Santana (RN)	Mario Contreras (PC)	Minor Braniff (Ind.)	none
	Juan José Cárcamo (PPD)	(R) Claudio Alvarado (UDI)	Luis Veloso (Ind.)
59	Eduardo Santelices (PDC)	(R) Pablo Galilea (RN)	Yasna Jara (PC)	Mercedes Mayorga (Ind.)	none
	René Alinco (PPD)	Max Larraín (UDI)	Walter Ramírez (Ind.)
60	Carolina Goic (PDC)	René Bobadilla (Ind.)	Jeannette Antonin (PC)	none	Miodrag Marinovic
	Lidia Amarales (PPD)	(R) Rodrigo Álvarez (UDI)	Jaime Agurto (Ind.)

Source: Tricel/Servel.

Senate

Cons.	Democratic Coalition	Alliance	Together We Can Do More	Independent Regional Force	Independents
2nd	(R) Carmen Frei (PDC)	(R) Carlos Cantero (RN)	Salvador Barrientos (PC)	Luis Thompson (Ind.)	none
	José Antonio Gómez (PRSD)	Cristián Leay (UDI)	José Gabriel Feres (PH)	Humberto Zuleta (Ind.)
4th	(R) Jorge Pizarro (PDC)	Arturo Longton (RN)	Luis Aguilera (PC)	none	none
	Jorge Arrate (PS)	(R) Evelyn Matthei (UDI)	Joaquín Arduengo (PH)
7th	(R) Andrés Zaldívar (PDC)	Roberto Fantuzzi (Ind.)	Gonzalo Rovira (Ind.)	none	none
	Guido Girardi (PPD)	(R) Jovino Novoa (UDI)	Eduardo Artés (Ind.)
8th	Soledad Alvear (PDC)	Lily Pérez (RN)	Manuel Riesco (PC)	none	none
	Gonzalo Martner (PS)	Pablo Longueira (UDI)	Efrén Osorio (PH)
9th	Aníbal Pérez (PPD)	Ramón Achurra (Ind.)	Carmen Moncada (Ind.)	none	none
	Juan Pablo Letelier (PS)	(R) Andrés Chadwick (UDI)	Marilén Cabrera (PH)
12th	(R) Hosain Sabag (PDC)	Alberto Gyhra (Ind.)	Hugo Corvalán (Ind.)	none	none
	Alejandro Navarro (PS)	Carlos Bombal (UDI)	Wilfredo Alfsen (PH)
13th	(R) Mariano Ruiz-Esquide (PDC)	(R) Mario Ríos (RN)	Marta Morales (PC)	none	none
	Eleodoro Torres (Ind.)	Víctor Pérez (UDI)	Gloria Mujica (PH)
16th	Eduardo Frei (PDC)	Andrés Allamand (RN)	Guillermo Tripailaf (PC)	Raúl Silva (ANI)	none
	Marcos Saldías (PRSD)		Hugo Gerter (Ind.)	Carlos Boero (ANI)
17th	(R) Sergio Páez (PDC)	Carlos Kuschel (RN)	Irma Alvarado (PC)	José Luis Cáceres (Ind.)	none
	Camilo Escalona (PS)	Joaquín Brahm (UDI)	Tomás Bize (Ind.)	Mario Osses (Ind.)
19th	Zarko Luksic (PDC)	Eduardo Catalán (Ind.)	José Foppiano (Ind.)	none	Carlos Bianchi
	Pedro Muñoz (PS)	(R) Sergio Fernández (UDI)	Fernando Ortiz (PH)		Manuel Barrera

Source: Tricel/Servel.

Results by list and party

e • d Chilean parliamentary election results

Coalitions and parties		Chamber of Deputies			Senate
		Votes	%	Seats	Votes (2005)	% (2005)	Seats 20051	Seats 20012	Total
A	Independent Regional Force (Fuerza Regional Independiente)	77,213	1.17	1	30,344	0.63	0	0	0
	-National Alliance of Independents (Alianza Nacional de los Independientes)	20,191	0.31	0	13,076	0.27	0	0	0
	-Regionalist Action Party of Chile (Partido de Acción Regionalista de Chile)	26,698	0.40	1	no candidates
	-Independents List A	30,324	0.46	0	17,268	0.36	0	0	0
B	Concert of Parties for Democracy (Concertación de Partidos Por la Democracia)	3,417,207	51.76	65	2,658,998	55.73	11	9	20
	-Christian Democrat Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano)	1,370,501	20.76	20	1,418,089	29.72	5	2	7
	-Party for Democracy (Partido por la Democracia)	1,017,956	15.42	21	512,296	10.73	1	2	3
	-Socialist Party of Chile (Partido Socialista de Chile)	663,561	10.05	15	576,045	12.07	4	4	8
	-Social Democrat Radical Party (Partido Radical Socialdemócrata)	233,564	3.54	7	114,515	2.40	1	1	2
	-Independents List B	131,625	1.99	2	38,053	0.79	0	0	0
C	Together We Can Do More (Juntos Podemos Más)	488,618	7.40	0	286,074	5.99	0	0	0
	-Communist Party of Chile (Partido Comunista de Chile)	339,547	5.14	0	104,687	2.19	0	0	0
	-Humanist Party (Partido Humanista)	102,842	1.56	0	69,927	1.46	0	0	0
	-Independents List C	46,229	0.70	0	111,460	2.33	0	0	0
D	Alliance for Chile (Alianza por Chile)	2,556,386	38.72	54	1,777,290	37.25	8	9	17
	-Independent Democrat Union (Unión Demócrata Independiente)	1,475,901	22.36	33	1,028,925	21.56	5	4	9
	-National Renewal (Renovación Nacional)	932,422	14.12	19	515,185	10.79	3	5	8
	-Independents List D	148,063	2.24	2	233,180	4.88	0	0	0
Independents out of pact		62,387	0.94	0	18,275	0.38	1	0	1
Total valid votes		6,601,811	100.00	120	4,770,981	100.00	20	18	38
Source: Tricel via Interior Ministry 1 Only 20 out of 38 seats were contested in this election. 2 These 18 seats were contested in the 2001 election.

See also

• Elections in Chile
• List of political parties in Chile

External links

• (Spanish) Results from the Ministry of Interior
• (Spanish) Electoral Service (Servel)
• (Spanish) Election Qualifier Tribunal (Tricel)