Senate of Uruguay

Chamber of Senators

Cámara de Senadores
Chamber of Senators ; Cámara de Senadores
50th Legislature
Type
Type	Upper house of the General Assembly of Uruguay
History
Founded	4 October 1830
Leadership
President of the Senate	Carolina Cosse (Broad Front) ; since 1 March 2025
Structure
Seats	30
Political groups	Government Broad Front (16); Opposition (14) National Party (9); Colorado Party (5);
Elections
Voting system	Party-list proportional representation; D'Hondt method
Last election	27 October 2024
Next election	27 October 2029
Meeting place
	The Senate into the Palacio Legislativo
Website
	Official website

The Chamber of Senators of Uruguay (Cámara de Senadores de Uruguay), or Senate, is the upper house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (Asamblea General de Uruguay). It has 30 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation; the vice-president presides over the chamber's sessions.

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The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article Ninety-eight of the Uruguayan Constitution. It also requires that the senators must be at least 30 years old and have been Uruguayan citizens for seven years.^[2] In addition to the functions that it performs jointly with the House of Representatives through the General Assembly, it stands out as a competence that falls solely on the House of Senators to open a public trial to those accused by the House of Representatives or the Junta Departamental, in their case, and pronounce sentence for the sole purpose of separating them from their positions, by two-thirds of the total number of its components.^[3]

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Party		Senate
Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Broad Front	1,071,826	43.86	16	+3
	National Party	655,426	26.82	9	–1
	Colorado Party	392,592	16.07	5	+1
	Sovereign Identity	65,796	2.69	0	New
	Open Cabildo	60,549	2.48	0	–3
	Partido Ecologista Radical Intransigente	33,461	1.43	0	0
	Constitutional Environmentalist Party	11 865	0.49	0	New
	Independent Party	41,618	1.70	0	0
	Popular Unity-Workers' Party	10 102	0.41	0	0
	For Necessary Changes Party	3,183	0.14	0	New
	Republican Advance Party	1,909	0.08	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		85,106	–	–	–
Total		2,443,901	100.00	30	0
Source: Corte Electoral

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