2024 Uruguayan general election

General elections will be held in Uruguay on Sunday 27 October 2024. If no presidential candidate receives a majority in the first round of voting, a runoff will take place on Sunday 24 November 2024.

2024 Uruguayan general election
2024
President before election

Luis Lacalle Pou
National Party

 Elected President

TBD

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Background

Incumbent President Luis Lacalle Pou, who won the 2019 elections, is ineligible to run due to constitutional term limits. As a result, the governing National Party has to nominate a new candidate.

Electoral system

The President of Uruguay is elected using the two-round system, with a run-off held if no candidate receives 50% of the vote in the first round. The 30 members of the Senate are elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency.. The vice president, elected on the same ballot as the president, become president of the Senate, with his vote being determining in case of tie[1] The 99 members of the Chamber of Representatives are elected by proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies based on the departments. Seats are allocated using the highest averages method.[2]

The elections are held using the double simultaneous vote method, whereby voters cast a single vote for the party of their choice for all three of the Presidency, the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives.

Candidates

Presidential primaries will be held in April or June to select the candidates. So far, the politicians with highest stakes of taking part in this process are as follows:

References
  1. Electoral system IPU
  2. Electoral system IPU
  3. "Lacalle y Orsi: un arranque entre "señales", "simbolismo" y una corbata "colorada" en el medio". El Observador (in Spanish). 26 November 2020.


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