Venezuelan presidential election, 1988
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General elections were held in Venezuela
on 4 December 1988. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Andrés Pérez
of Democratic Action
, who received 52.9% of the vote, whilst his party won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 81.9% in the presidential election and 81.7% in the Congressional elections.
President Jaime Lusinchi
backed Octavio Lepage
to succeed him as the party's candidate for the election, but in a primary election
the party chose Carlos Andrés Pérez
, (previously president from 1973 to 1978).
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 1988. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez , also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho , was a Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to...
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 52.9% of the vote, whilst his party won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 81.9% in the presidential election and 81.7% in the Congressional elections.
Background
Democratic ActionDemocratic 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...
President 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...
backed Octavio Lepage
Octavio Lepage
Octavio Lepage Barreto, was Acting President of Venezuela from 21 May 1993 to 5 June 1993....
to succeed him as the party's candidate for the election, but in a primary election
Primary election
A primary election is an election in which party members or voters select candidates for a subsequent election. Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election....
the party chose Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez , also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho , was a Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to...
, (previously president from 1973 to 1978).
President
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez , also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho , was a Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to... |
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... |
3,879,024 | 52.9 |
| Eduardo Fernández | Copei | 2,963,015 | 40.4 |
| 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... |
200,479 | 2.7 |
| Godofredo Marín | Authentic Renewal Organisation | 62,896 | 0.9 |
| Ismenia Vellalba | 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... |
61,684 | 0.8 |
| Jorge Olavarria | National Opinion | 32,254 | 0.5 |
| Edmundo Chirinos | 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... |
59,034 | 0.8 |
| Vladimir Gessen | New Democratic Generation | 27,833 | 0.4 |
| 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... |
24,561 | 0.3 |
| Gastón Guisandes | National Opinion | 10,720 | 0.1 |
| David Nieves | 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... |
10,065 | 0.1 |
| Jorge Olavarria | LNR | 9,969 | 0.1 |
| Alberto Marini Urdaneta | Nationalist Unity Front | 5,821 | 0.1 |
| Luis Hernández Campos | Nationalist Civic Crusade | 2,589 | 0.0 |
| Luis Alfonso Godoy | Nosotros PSN | 2,532 | 0.0 |
| Leopoldo Díaz Bruzual | New Alternative | 2,528 | 0.0 |
| Alejandro Peña Esclusa Alejandro Peña Esclusa Alejandro Peña Esclusa is a Venezuelan politician, leader of the Venezuelan NGO Fuerza Solidaria and president of the pan-Latin-American NGO UnoAmérica... |
PUV | 2,168 | 0.0 |
| Rómulo Abrue Duarte | FEVO | 1,513 | 0.0 |
| José Rojas Contreras | New Order | 1,176 | 0.0 |
| Hernández Escarrá Quintara | MNV | 1,412 | 0.0 |
| Alberto Solano | Emancipatory Force | 818 | 0.0 |
| Napoleón Barrios | MPDIN | 736 | 0.0 |
| Arévalo Tovar Yajur | ONI | 432 | 0.0 |
| Rómulo Yordi Carvajal | PUEBLO | 382 | 0.0 |
| Invalid/blank votes | 187,276 | – | |
| Total | 7,518,663 | 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... |
3,123,790 | 43.3 | 97 | |||
| 22 | ||||||
| Copei | 2,247,236 | 31.1 | 67 | 20 | ||
| 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... |
733,421 | 10.2 | 18 | 3 | ||
| New Democratic Generation | 236,833 | 3.3 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Radical Cause Radical Cause The Radical Cause is a working class political party in Venezuela, part of the Venezuelan opposition to president Hugo Chavez... |
117,562 | 1.6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Electoral Movement | 116,621 | 1.6 | 2 | |||
| 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... |
103,883 | 1.4 | 2 | |||
| 0 | 0 | |||||
| Formula 1 | 93,228 | 1.3 | 2 | New | 0 | New |
| Authentic Renewal Organisation | 92,117 | 1.3 | 2 | New | 0 | New |
| National Opinion | 351,709 | 4.9 | 1 | |||
| 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... |
1 | |||||
| 0 | 0 | |||||
| 56 other parties | 0 | – | 0 | – | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 283,635 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 7,500,085 | 100 | 201 | +1 | 46 | +2 |
| Source: Nohlen | ||||||