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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
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General elections were held in Paraguay on 9 May 1993.[1] They were the first free elections in the country's 182-year history,[2] the first with no military candidates since 1928,[3] and the first since the adoption of a new constitution the previous summer. The presidential election was the first regular presidential election since the overthrow of longtime leader Alfredo Stroessner in 1989; incumbent Andrés Rodríguez was in office by virtue of winning a special election for the remainder of Stroessner's eighth term.
Rodríguez had promised not to run for re-election for a full term and was prevented from doing so by the new constitution, which barred a sitting president from re-election even if they had only served a partial term.[4] Juan Carlos Wasmosy of the Colorado Party won the presidential election with 41.8 percent of the vote. He took office on 15 August, becoming the first civilian to hold the post in 39 years.
The Colorado Party remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, but lost the absolute majority it had held since 1963. The opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party and National Encounter Party together held a majority of the seats in both chambers, later supplemented by the Colorado Reconciliation Movement, which broke away from the Colorado Party.[5] Voter turnout was 69.0% in the presidential elections, 67.6% in the Chamber elections and 69.4% in the Senate elections.[6]