The Electoral Court ended the departmental scrutiny on Monday a little over a week after the end of the referendum for the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), which ratified the 135 articles that were under consideration.
With the sum of 36,080 votes observed, the final result reaffirmed the triumph of the No, which widened the difference in its favor and obtained (counting the blank votes) 50.01% of the votes. On the other hand, the Yes option collected slightly less than half of the adhesions: 48.6%.
Almost 134,000 fewer people participated in these elections (2,298,937) than in November 2019 (85% versus 90% participation of those qualified). In this context, the Yes had a slight growth with respect to the ballot between Daniel Martínez and Graciela Villar and Luis Lacalle Pou and Beatriz Argimón, but it was not enough to defeat the ruling party.
In percentage terms, the Yes obtained 0.2 tenths more (it went from 48.4% to 48.6%). In addition to prevailing in Paysandú, something that it had not achieved in the second round two years ago, the left was able to shorten differences in Río Negro and Treinta y Tres, while in the north of the country the difference in favor of the ruling party grew: Rivera and Artigas were the departments where the difference grew more.
For its part, the No went from 49.9% to 50.01%. Blank votes totaled 1.3% of the total.
Those canceled were 82,463 (3.59% of the total).
