2023 Paraguayan general election

2023 Paraguayan general election

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Presidential election
Turnout63.29% (Increase 2.05pp)
 
Candidate Santiago Peña Efraín Alegre Paraguayo Cubas
Party Colorado Concertación PCN
Running mate Pedro Alliana Soledad Núñez Stilber Valdez
Popular vote 1,291,209 830,302 692,429
Percentage 43.93% 28.25% 23.56%


President before election

Mario Abdo Benítez
Colorado

Elected President

Santiago Peña
Colorado

Parliamentary election

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
Chamber of Deputies (41 seats for a majority)
Colorado Santiago Peña 47.43 48 +6
PLRA Efraín Alegre 19.66 17 0
PCN Paraguayo Cubas 8.24 4 +3
CN2023 Efraín Alegre 7.80 6 New
PPQ Sebastián Villarejo 3.27 1 −2
PEN Fernando Camacho 2.94 2 0
Yo Creo Miguel Prieto 2.33 2 New
Senate (23 seats needed for a majority)
Colorado Santiago Peña 45.73 23 +6
CN2023 Efraín Alegre 24.35 12 New
PCN Paraguayo Cubas 11.50 5 +4
PEN Fernando Camacho 5.15 2 0
PPQ Sebastián Villarejo 2.51 1 −2
Guasú Front Fernando Lugo 2.11 1 −5
Yo Creo Miguel Prieto 1.95 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Paraguay on 30 April 2023 to elect the president, vice president, National Congress, and departmental governors.[1] The incumbent president Mario Abdo Benítez and vice president Hugo Velázquez Moreno, both of the Colorado Party, were ineligible for re-election.

The Colorado candidate, former Finance Minister Santiago Peña, defeated both PLRA president Efraín Alegre from the Concertación alliance and former senator Paraguayo Cubas from the populist National Crusade Party. The election marked another victory for the long-dominant Colorado Party, which also won the majority of congressional and governor races.[2] Both Peña and the vice president-elect Pedro Alliana were set to take office on 15 August 2023.

  1. ^ "El 30 de abril de 2023 Paraguay elegirá a su nuevo presidente". ultimahora.com (in European Spanish). 16 December 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
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