Chilean parliamentary election, 2017

Chilean presidential election, 2017

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19 November 2017 (first round)
17 December 2017 (second round)


Candidate	Sebastián Piñera	Alejandro Guillier	Beatriz Sánchez
Party	Independent	Independent	Independent
Alliance	Chile Let's Go	New Majority	Broad Front


Candidate	José Antonio Kast	Carolina Goic	Marco Enríquez-Ominami
Party	Independent	Christian Democratic	Progressive


Candidate	Alejandro Navarro	Eduardo Artés
Party	País	Patriotic Union

Incumbent President

Michelle Bachelet
Socialist

A general election in Chile is scheduled to be held, according to the Constitution, on Sunday 19 November 2017, including presidential, parliamentary and regional elections.

Voters will go to the polls to elect:

All the newly-elected authorities will begin their terms on 11 March 2018.

In the presidential race, if none of the candidates secure an absolute majority of the valid votes, a runoff election is to be held on 17 December 2017. The Constitution bars Michelle Bachelet, the incumbent president, from seeking immediate reelection.

Following an election reform in 2015, the Chamber of Deputies will grow in size to 155 members from the current 120, while the Senate will increase its membership from 38 to 43 after this election, and to 50 following the election in 2021.

This will be the first non-primary election in which Chileans will be able to vote from abroad. Also, for the first time, a 40% gender quota will be established for candidates of each political party in parliamentary elections.

According to the Constitution, primaries are voluntary, but its results are binding. Two political coalitions decided to participate: Former president Sebastián Piñera won the Chile Let's Go primary with 58% of the vote, while radio and television journalist Beatriz Sánchez became the Broad Front nominee with nearly 68%.

These candidates officially registered their candidacies before the national election authority (Servel), either directly, or via a primary election victory. All candidacies were accepted (met legal requirements) by the Servel on 1 September 2017 and were officially registered on 12 September 2017, after no legal challenges were raised.

Independent electors

Amplitude

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