1991 Paraguayan Constitutional Assembly election
Paraguay
1 December 1991
198 seats in the Constitutional Assembly
100 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader % Seats
Colorado 55.1 122
PLRA 27.0 55
Constitution for All 11.0 19
PRF 1.2 1
PDC 0.9 1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Paraguay on 1 December 1991.[1] The result was a victory for the Colorado Party, which won 122 of the 198 seats. Voter turnout was 51.7%.[2]

Following the elections, a new constitution was promulgated in 1992. It reintroduced the position of Vice President and allowed for the President to be elected by a plurality of the vote.[3] It also limited the President to a single five-year term, with no possibility of re-election even if the incumbent had only served a partial term. This provision meant that incumbent Andrés Rodríguez would have had to leave office in 1993 even without his promise to not run for a full term.[4]

Electoral system

The 198 members of the Constituent Assembly were elected via Closed list proportional representation (D'Hondt method) with the following distribution:

  • 140 members from a national list
  • 58 members from 16 multi-member constituencies of between two and nine seats corresponding to the Departments of Paraguay (except for the three Departments of the Chaco region, which were grouped into one district) and the Capital District

Results

PartyVotes%Seats
Colorado Party409,73055.1122
Authentic Radical Liberal Party201,04027.055
Constitution for All81,86011.019
Revolutionary Febrerista Party9,0941.21
Christian Democratic Party6,5480.91
Workers' Party0.60
Paraguayan Humanist Party0.50
People, Nation and Solidarity0.10
Total198
Total votes743,546–
Registered voters/turnout1,438,54351.69
Source: Nohlen, TSJE

References

  1. ↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p425 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p426
  3. ↑ Nohlen, p417
  4. ↑ Cesar Insfran (June 20, 1992). "Paraguay celebrates new constitution". United Press International.
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