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General elections were held in Venezuela on Sunday 9 December 1973.[1] The presidential elections were won by Carlos Andrés Pérez of Democratic Action, who received 48.7% of the vote,[2] whilst his party won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 96.5%.[3]
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Turnout | 96.50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Carlos Andrés Pérez | AD–PRN | 2,130,743 | 48.71 | |
Lorenzo Fernández | Copei–FDP–MPI | 1,605,628 | 36.70 | |
Jesús Paz Galarraga | MEP–PCV | 221,239 | 5.06 | |
José Vicente Rangel | Movement for Socialism | 186,255 | 4.26 | |
Jóvito Villalba | Democratic Republican Union | 134,478 | 3.07 | |
Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas | National Opinion | 33,977 | 0.78 | |
Pedro Tinoco | PNI–MD | 29,399 | 0.67 | |
Martín Garcia | Democratic Socialist Party | 11,965 | 0.27 | |
Germán Borregales | National Action Movement | 9,331 | 0.21 | |
Pedro Segnini | Democratic National Front | 6,176 | 0.14 | |
Raimundo Verde Roja | Independent Democratic Movement | 3,754 | 0.09 | |
Alberto Solano | Emancipatory Force | 1,736 | 0.04 | |
Total | 4,374,681 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 4,374,681 | 95.69 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 196,880 | 4.31 | ||
Total votes | 4,571,561 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,737,152 | 96.50 | ||
Source: Nohlen |
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
Chamber | +/– | Senate | +/– | |||||
Democratic Action | 1,955,439 | 44.44 | 102 | +36 | 28 | +9 | ||
Copei | 1,330,514 | 30.24 | 64 | +5 | 13 | –3 | ||
Movement for Socialism | 232,756 | 5.29 | 9 | New | 2 | New | ||
People's Electoral Movement | 218,192 | 4.96 | 8 | –17 | 2 | –3 | ||
Nationalist Civic Crusade | 189,667 | 4.31 | 7 | –14 | 1 | –3 | ||
Democratic Republican Union | 140,462 | 3.19 | 5 | –13 | 1 | –2 | ||
Popular Democratic Front | 54,759 | 1.24 | 0 | –10 | 0 | –1 | ||
Communist Party of Venezuela | 52,754 | 1.20 | 2 | New | 0 | New | ||
Revolutionary Left Movement | 44,012 | 1.00 | 1 | New | 0 | New | ||
National Opinion | 32,751 | 0.74 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Integrationist National Party | 30,618 | 0.70 | 1 | New | 0 | New | ||
Progressive Independents | 27,528 | 0.63 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
Nationalist Unity Front | 15,537 | 0.35 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
National Action Movement | 12,588 | 0.29 | 0 | –1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Democratic Socialist Party | 12,238 | 0.28 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
Democratic National Front | 11,313 | 0.26 | 0 | –4 | 0 | –1 | ||
Popular Movement | 8,324 | 0.19 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
19 other parties | 30,313 | 0.69 | 0 | – | 0 | – | ||
Total | 4,399,765 | 100.00 | 200 | –14 | 47 | –5 | ||
Valid votes | 4,399,765 | 96.23 | ||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 172,422 | 3.77 | ||||||
Total votes | 4,572,187 | 100.00 | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 4,737,152 | 96.52 | ||||||
Source: Nohlen |
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