Latin America
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Mexican General Election of 2000
On July 2, 2000, Vicente Fox of the National Action Party defeated the Institutional Revolutionary Party's Francisco Labastida 42....
Brazilian Presidential Election of 1989
Brazil's November 15 and December 17 rounds were the first direct presidential election since 1960, following two decades of milit...
Brazilian Presidential Election of 2002
On October 27, 2002, Lula, the metalworker and PT founder defeated in 1989, 1994, and 1998, finally won, taking 61.3 percent of th...
Argentine General Election of 1983
The October 30, 1983 election, the first free national vote since 1973, gave the Radical Civic Union's Raul Alfonsin 51.7 percent ...
Chilean Presidential Election of 1970
On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende, a Marxist running for the fourth time, won a 36.6 percent plurality over conservative Jorg...
Chilean Plebiscite of 1988
The October 5, 1988 yes-or-no plebiscite, written into the 1980 constitution, asked Chileans for eight more years of Augusto Pinoc...
Venezuelan Presidential Election of 1998
Amid collapse after the 1989 Caracazo riots, banking crises, and entrenched corruption, former paratrooper Hugo Chavez, jailed aft...
Nicaraguan General Election of 1990
The February 25, 1990 election, mandated by the 1987 Central American peace plan, united the contra war, the economy's collapse, a...
Mexican General Election of 2018
On July 1, 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, running for the third time after narrow and disputed losses in 2006 and a defeat in ...