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1968 Venezuelan general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1968 Venezuelan general election
country	Venezuela (1954)
previous_election	1963 Venezuelan general election
previous_year	1963
next_election	1973 Venezuelan general election
next_year	1973
election_date	1 December 1968
module	{{Infobox election
embed	yes
election_name	Presidential election
type	presidential
ongoing	no
registered	4,134,928
turnout	96.73% ( 4.46pp)
image1	Rafael Caldera en 1967.jpeg
nominee1	Rafael Caldera
party1	Copei
popular_vote1	1,083,712
percentage1	29.13%
image2	Gonzalo Barrios 1968.jpg
nominee2	Gonzalo Barrios
party2	Democratic Action (Venezuela)
popular_vote2	1,050,806
percentage2	28.24%
image4	Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas 1950.jpg
nominee4	Miguel Burelli
party4	Democratic Republican Union
popular_vote4	826,758
percentage4	22.22%
image5	Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa.jpg
nominee5	Luis Prieto
party5	People's Electoral Movement (Venezuela)
popular_vote5	719,461
percentage5	19.34%
map_image	Mapa de las elecciones presidenciales de Venezuela de 1968.svg
title	President
before_election	Raúl Leoni
before_party	Democratic Action
after_election	Rafael Caldera
after_party	Copei

General elections were held in Venezuela on 1 December 1968. The presidential election was won by Rafael Caldera of Copei, who received 29.1% of the vote. Acción Democrática (Democratic Action, AD) remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 96.7% in the presidential election and 94.5% in the Congressional elections. When Caldera took office in March 1969, it marked the first time in Venezuela's history as an independent nation that the sitting government peacefully transferred power to an elected member of the opposition.

Background

The election was shaped by a split in AD. Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, then President of the Venezuelan Senate and President of AD, won the AD primary election (held in 1967). His nomination was overturned in favor of Gonzalo Barrios by the Rómulo Betancourt faction of AD, which considered Prieto Figueroa too left-wing. Prieto Figueroa and a substantial number of his supporters then split from AD and formed a new party: the People's Electoral Movement ("Movimiento Electoral del Pueblo" - MEP). Ultimately, Prieto finished fourth, but his 719,000 votes far exceeded the 32,900-vote gap between Caldera and Barrios.

Results

President

Congress

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p555 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928358-3
Nohlen, p580
Nohlen, p556
Swanson, D. L.; Mancini, P. (1996) ''Politics, media, and modern democracy: an international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences'', Greenwood Publishing Group, p244

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