Chile Elections 2021: What percentage of citizens turned out to vote in the general elections on Sunday?

53% of the nearly 15 million people called to vote in the Chilean presidential elections this Sunday He abstained from exercising his right to vote, according to the percentage of participation that is extracted this Monday from the Electoral Service of the country with 99.9% of the polls scrutinized.

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Specifically, 7,115,590 attended to deposit their ballot to elect the successor of the current president, Sebastian Piñera, which represents 47.6% of the roll, below the 50.9% that was obtained in the plebiscite on the constituent process held in October 2020 and slightly higher than the 46.7% of the first round of the previous presidential elections , in 2017.

Low turnout became chronic in Chile since voluntary suffrage was implemented in 2012 and since then only last year’s plebiscite exceeded 50% participation.

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Last June, for the holding of the first regional elections in the country’s history, only 19.6% participation was registered, the minimum since Chile returned to democracy in 1990.

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In the presidential elections this Sunday, Chileans focused their votes on the extreme right Jose Antonio Kast and the leftist Gabriel Boric above the other five applicants present on the ballots, but none of them obtained more than 50% of the preferences, so they will contest the first magistracy in the second round, scheduled for next December 19.

With the scrutiny practically over, closet, 55-year-old former deputy and lawyer who has defended the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) on several occasions, won 27.94% of the votes; while Boric, a 35-year-old deputy and champion of a leftist formation that has the support of the Communist Party, reaped 25.69%.

Both are united by being representatives of political forces founded a few years ago and by collecting the vote disenchanted with the current institutional framework, but their government programs differ completely in their political, economic and social nature.

In addition to the presidential elections, Chile this Sunday elected 27 new senators to renew an Upper House that from 2022 will have 50 seats; and the total of 155 deputies, reconfiguring the correlation of forces within the National Congress.

With the preliminary results, everything indicates that in none of the Chambers will there be clear majorities and that both right-wing and left-wing groups will be forced to articulate support.

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