Venezuelan presidential election, 1983
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General elections were held in Venezuela
on 4 December 1983. The presidential elections were won by Jaime Lusinchi
of Democratic Action
, who received 58.4% of the vote, whilst his party won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 87.3%.
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
on 4 December 1983. The presidential elections were won by Jaime Lusinchi
Jaime Lusinchi
Jaime Ramón Lusinchi is a Venezuelan politician who was the President of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the External debt, populist policies, currency depreciation, inflation and corruption that exacerbated the crisis of the political...
of Democratic Action
Democratic Action
Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...
, who received 58.4% of the vote, whilst his party won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 87.3%.
President
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaime Lusinchi Jaime Lusinchi Jaime Ramón Lusinchi is a Venezuelan politician who was the President of Venezuela from 1984 to 1989. His term was characterized by an economic crisis, growth of the External debt, populist policies, currency depreciation, inflation and corruption that exacerbated the crisis of the political... |
AD Democratic Action Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period... -URD Democratic Republican Union The Democratic Republican Union is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constitutional assembly, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election... -VOI |
3,775,341 | 58.4 |
| Rafael Caldera Rafael Caldera Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez was president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999.Caldera taught sociology and law at various universities before entering politics. He was a founding member of COPEI, Venezuela's Christian Democratic party... |
Copei-ICC-NGD-CIMA-FUN-MIO | 2,166,467 | 33.5 |
| Teodoro Petkoff Teodoro Petkoff Teodoro Petkoff Malec is a Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. As Minister of Planning he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's... |
MAS Movement for Socialism (Venezuela) Movement for Socialism is a center-left political party in Venezuela.-History:The Movement for Socialism is a social-democratic political party in Venezuela. MAS was founded in 1971 by a faction of the Communist Party of Venezuela, with a view to emphasising a socialist message... -MIR Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela) The Revolutionary Left Movement , was a left-wing Marxist political party in Venezuela... -IRE |
223,194 | 3.5 |
| José Vicente Rangel José Vicente Rangel José Vicente Rangel Vale is a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for President three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez, successively becoming Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, and Vice President in Chávez's government.-Political activism:His political activism began... |
MEP-PCV Communist Party of Venezuela The Communist Party of Venezuela is a Marxist-Leninist political party, and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela... -NA-LS Socialist League (Venezuela) The Socialist League was a Venezuelan political party. It was established in 1973 in a split from the Revolutionary Left Movement, and merged into PSUV in 2007. The League was co-founded by Jorge Antonio Rodriguez; he was its Secretary General when he was murdered on 25 July 1976, having been... -GAR-SI |
221,918 | 3.4 |
| Américo Martín | Revolutionary Left Movement Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela) The Revolutionary Left Movement , was a left-wing Marxist political party in Venezuela... |
52,287 | 1.0 |
| Jorge Olavarria | National Opinion | 32,254 | 0.5 |
| Gonzalo Pérez | National Integration Movement | 19,528 | 0.3 |
| Luis Rangel | National Rescue | 8,820 | 0.1 |
| Andrés Velásquez Andrés Velásquez Andrés Velásquez is a Venezuelan politician associated with Radical Cause . Formerly the general secretary of the steelworkers union of SIDOR, he became one of the leaders of Radical Cause after the death of its founder, Alfredo Maneiro, in 1982... |
Radical Cause Radical Cause The Radical Cause is a working class political party in Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez... |
5,917 | 0.1 |
| Vinicio Romero | National Confidence | 3,236 | 0.1 |
| Alberto Solano | Emancipatory Force | 1,650 | 0.0 |
| Juan Iarra Riverol | Venezuelan Nationalist Party | 1,363 | 0.0 |
| Adolfo Alcala | Independent Voters | 1,077 | 0.0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 331,443 | – | |
| Total | 6,792,208 | 100 | |
| Source: Nohlen | |||
Congress
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | +/- | Senate | +/- | |||
| Democratic Action Democratic Action Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period... |
3,284,166 | 49.9 | 113 | 28 | ||
| Copei | 1,887,226 | 28.7 | 60 | |||
| 14 | ||||||
| Movement for Socialism Movement for Socialism (Venezuela) Movement for Socialism is a center-left political party in Venezuela.-History:The Movement for Socialism is a social-democratic political party in Venezuela. MAS was founded in 1971 by a faction of the Communist Party of Venezuela, with a view to emphasising a socialist message... |
377,795 | 5.7 | 10 | |||
| 2 | 0 | |||||
| National Opinion | 130,022 | 2.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Electoral Movement | 129,263 | 2.0 | 3 | |||
| 0 | 0 | |||||
| Democratic Republican Union Democratic Republican Union The Democratic Republican Union is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constitutional assembly, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election... |
125,458 | 1.9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Communist Party of Venezuela Communist Party of Venezuela The Communist Party of Venezuela is a Marxist-Leninist political party, and the oldest continuously existing party in Venezuela... |
115,162 | 1.7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Revolutionary Left Movement Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela) The Revolutionary Left Movement , was a left-wing Marxist political party in Venezuela... |
103,923 | 1.6 | 2 | |||
| 0 | 0 | |||||
| New Alternative | 68,729 | 1.0 | 1 | New | 0 | New |
| Independents with Change | 63,822 | 1.0 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| Socialist League Socialist League (Venezuela) The Socialist League was a Venezuelan political party. It was established in 1973 in a split from the Revolutionary Left Movement, and merged into PSUV in 2007. The League was co-founded by Jorge Antonio Rodriguez; he was its Secretary General when he was murdered on 25 July 1976, having been... |
53,506 | 0.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National Integration Movement | 59,870 | 0.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Radical Cause Radical Cause The Radical Cause is a working class political party in Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez... |
35,304 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LNR (OLVARRIA) | 29,642 | 0.5 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| Majoritarian Independent Committee | 18,762 | 0.3 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| National Rescue | 15,083 | 0.2 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| Revolutionary Action Group | 15,033 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationalist Unity Front | 12,262 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Democratic Generation | 10,288 | 0.2 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| MIO | 10,020 | 0.2 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| 29 other parties | 35,563 | 0.5 | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Invalid/blank votes | 244,281 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 6,825,180 | 100 | 200 | +1 | 44 | 0 |
| Source: Nohlen | ||||||