2013 Paraguayan general election

2013 Paraguayan general election

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Presidential election

Candidate Horacio Cartes Efraín Alegre Mario Ferreiro Party Colorado PLRA Avanza País Running mate Juan Afara Rafael Filizzola Cynthia Brizuela Speratti Popular vote 1,104,169 889,451 141,716 Percentage 48.48% 39.05% 6.22%

President before election Federico Franco PLRA Elected President Horacio Cartes Colorado

Parliamentary election

All 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies All 45 seats in the Senate

Party Leader % Seats +/– Chamber of Deputies (41 seats for a majority) Colorado Lilian Samaniego 40.99 44 +14 PLRA Ramón Gomez Verlangieri 29.25 27 0 UNACE Carmelo Banitez 6.58 2 −13 Guasú Front Fernando Lugo 5.46 1 New PEN 4.84 2 +2 Avanza País Mario Ferreiro 3.78 2 New PPQ Roberto Campos 2.84 1 −2 APC 0.70 1 New Senate (23 seats needed for a majority) Colorado 38.50 19 +4 PLRA 26.17 13 −1 Guasú Front 10.60 5 New PDP 6.44 3 +2 Avanza País 5.21 2 New UNACE 4.03 2 −7 PEN 3.49 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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General elections were held in Paraguay on 21 April 2013.^[1] They resulted in a victory for the Colorado Party, which had ruled the country for 60 years before losing power in 2008. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Horacio Cartes, who defeated Efraín Alegre of the Paraguay Alegre alliance.^[2] The Colorado Party also won the most seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.