1973 Chilean parliamentary election

1973 Chilean parliamentary election

← 1969 4 March 1973 1989 →

Chamber of Deputies

All 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies

Party Vote % Seats +/– Confederation of Democracy (87 seats) PDC 29.07 50 −6 National 21.51 34 +1 Radical Democracy 1.94 2 New Radical Left 1.66 1 New Popular Unity (63 seats) Socialist 18.70 28 +13 Communist 16.36 25 +3 Radical 3.69 5 −19 MAPU 2.55 2 New Christian Left 1.15 1 New API 0.83 2 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Senate

25 of the 50 seats in the Senate

Party Vote % Seats +/– Confederation of Democracy (30 seats) PDC 33.88 19 −3 National 18.97 8 +3 Radical Left 1.56 3 New Popular Unity (19 seats) Socialist 17.84 7 +3 Communist 17.29 9 +3 Radical 5.77 2 −7 Christian Left – 1 New Other parties (1 seat) USOPO – 1 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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Parliamentary elections were held in Chile on 4 March 1973,^[1] They resulted in a victory for the Confederation of Democracy, an opposition alliance led by the National Party and the Christian Democratic Party. However, they were unable to secure the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate to remove President Salvador Allende from office.

The approval of Law No. 17,284 in 1970 led to a rise in voter participation. These elections marked the implementation of the reform on a nationwide scale, resulting in the highest level of voter engagement within the previous democratic system. Around 80.6% of the electorate (equivalent to 44% of the national population) were registered to vote, and 81% of the registered voters (approximately 3.7 million individuals) exercised their right to vote.^[2]