2016 Dominican Republic general election

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2016 Dominican Republic general election

15 May 2016
Registered	6,765,245
Presidential election
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Turnout	69.60% ( 0.63pp)
Candidate Danilo Medina Luis Abinader Party PLD PRM Running mate Margarita Cedeño Carolina Mejía Popular vote 2,847,438 1,613,222 Percentage 61.74% 34.98%
Presidential results by province
President before election Danilo Medina PLD Elected President Danilo Medina PLD

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General elections were held in Dominican Republic on 15 May 2016 to elect a president, vice-president and the Congress, as well as 20 deputies to the Central American Parliament, municipal councils, mayors and vice mayors.^[1][2] On 15 May 2015 Roberto Rosario, president of the Central Electoral Board, said that there would be about 4,300 seats up for election in the "most complex elections in history".^[3]