1958 Venezuelan general election
7 December 1958
Presidential election
Turnout93.42%
 
Candidate Rómulo Betancourt Wolfgang Larrazábal Rafael Caldera
Party Democratic Action URD–PCV Copei
Popular vote 1,284,092 903,479 423,262
Percentage 49.18% 34.61% 16.21%
President before election

Edgar Sanabria
Independent

 Elected President

Rómulo Betancourt
Democratic Action

General elections were held in Venezuela on 7 December 1958.[1] The presidential elections were won by Rómulo Betancourt of Democratic Action, who received 49.2% of the vote,[2] whilst his party won 73 of the 132 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 32 of the 51 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 93.4% in the presidential election and 92.1% in the Congressional elections.[3]

The Soviet Union covertly supported Wolfgang Larrazábal in the elections.[4]

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Rómulo BetancourtDemocratic Action1,284,09249.18
Wolfgang LarrazábalURD–PCV–MENI903,47934.61
Rafael CalderaCopei–IR–PST423,26216.21
Total2,610,833100.00
Valid votes2,610,83395.91
Invalid/blank votes111,2204.09
Total votes2,722,053100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,913,80193.42
Source: Nohlen

Congress

PartyVotes%Seats
Chamber+/–Senate+/–
Democratic Action1,275,97349.4573–1032–6
Democratic Republican Union690,35726.7634+3011+10
Copei392,30515.2018+26+2
Communist Party of Venezuela160,7916.237+42+1
Republican Integration19,4240.750New0New
Socialist Workers' Party15,4760.600New0New
Independent National Electoral Movement14,9080.580New0New
Socialist Party of Venezuela10,9830.430000
Total2,580,217100.00132+2251+5
Valid votes2,580,21796.10
Invalid/blank votes104,7323.90
Total votes2,684,949100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,913,80192.15
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p555 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p580
  3. ↑ Nohlen, p556
  4. ↑ Levin, Dov H. (2016-09-19). "Partisan electoral interventions by the great powers: Introducing the PEIG Dataset". Conflict Management and Peace Science. 36 (1): 88–106. doi:10.1177/0738894216661190. ISSN 0738-8942. S2CID 157114479.
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