Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Paraguay on 1 December 1991.[1] The result was a victory for the Colorado Party, which won 122 of the 198 seats. Voter turnout was 51.7%.[2]
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All 198 seats in the Constitutional Assembly 100 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
Following the elections, a new constitution was promulgated in 1992. It reintroduced the position of Vice President and allowed for the President to be elected by a plurality of the vote.[3] It also limited the President to a single five-year term, with no possibility of re-election even if the incumbent had only served a partial term. This provision meant that incumbent Andrés Rodríguez would have had to leave office in 1993 even without his promise to not run for a full term.[4]
The 198 members of the Constituent Assembly were elected by closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at two levels:
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Colorado Party | 409,730 | 55.1 | 122 | |
Authentic Radical Liberal Party | 201,040 | 27.0 | 55 | |
Constitution for All | 81,860 | 11.0 | 19 | |
Revolutionary Febrerista Party | 9,094 | 1.2 | 1 | |
Christian Democratic Party | 6,548 | 0.9 | 1 | |
Workers' Party | 0.6 | 0 | ||
Paraguayan Humanist Party | 0.5 | 0 | ||
People, Nation and Solidarity | 0.1 | 0 | ||
Total | 198 | |||
Total votes | 743,546 | – | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,438,543 | 51.69 | ||
Source: Nohlen, TSJE |