Sunday 11/24/2024 08:24 p.m. m.
89.4% of Uruguayan voters voted in the second round of the presidential elections held this Sunday, according to information provided by the Electoral Court, a percentage slightly lower than that of the first round (89.6%), held on the 27th. October and in which the members of Parliament were also elected.
“The background says that in the runoff a little less people vote than in the national elections. We were almost at the same percentage,” said Ana Lía Piñeyrúa, a member of the Electoral Court, who explained that the usual thing in the second round is that a Approximately ten percent of the electorate abstains in a country where voting is mandatory.
Some 2.7 million Uruguayans (out of a total population of 3.4 million) were called to the polls this Sunday, in a day that passed without incident, highlighted the judge of the Electoral Court, who spoke of “a good lesson “.
In the 2019 second round, which gave victory to Luis Lacalle Pou, of the National Party, 90 percent of voters voted.
This Sunday, the vote projections of two polling companies, Cifra and Opción Consultores, give the candidate of the opposition Frente Amplio, Yamandú Orsi, as the winner of the Uruguayan presidential elections, according to data provided two hours after the closing of the voting centers.
According to the consulting firm Cifra, Orsi has obtained 49.5% of the votes, while the candidate of the ruling National Party, Álvaro Delgado, has obtained 46.9%. Meanwhile, Opción Consultores points out that Orsi has achieved 48.7% of the votes, compared to 46.7% for Delgado.
These are, however, vote projections, not official results, since so far, the Electoral Court of Uruguay has not provided partial results of the count.
