2012 Concertación municipal primaries

The Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia primaries for the 2012 Chilean municipal elections took place nationally on 1 April 2012. 313,000 people voted in the Concertación primaries in 142 different communes. 142 out of 335 candidates were elected to represent the political conglomerate.^[1]^[2]

Following the defeat of the Concertación in the 2009 presidential election, the left-wing parties' primaries were qualified as "defective and restricted."^[3] The coalition, then, set the date of the municipal primaries to determine the candidates representing the political conglomerate in the elections of October 2012.

The Concertación primaries were delayed in the commune of Providencia, Santiago Metropolitan Region until 13 May, with three candidates participating.^[4] María Josefa Errázuriz was eventually chosen to face current-mayor Cristián Labbé in the October elections.^[5]

General results

#	Party		Pre-candidates	Elected candidates	Votes	Percentage
1	Christian Democrat Party	PDC	103	50	106,232	33.8%
2	Party for Democracy	PPD	82	35	81,273	25.89%
3	Socialist Party	PS	90	35	83,919	26.74%
4	Social Democrat Radical Party	PRSD	43	13	26,845	8.56%
5	Independent	INDEP	17	6	15,548	5.6%
Total			335	142	313,817	100%

Results in selected communes

Region of Arica y Parinacota

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Angelo Carrasco Arias	PPD	364	63,08%	Candidate
Miguel Saavedra Palma	PDC	213	36,92%

Region of Tarapacá

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Doris Mamani	INDEP	81	58,70%	Candidate
Vicente García Mamani	PS	57	41,30%

Region of Antofagasta

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Marcela Hernando	INDEP	3519	64,60%	Candidate
Andrea Merino	PS	1928	35,40%

Region of Atacama

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Marcos López Rivera	INDEP	3459	69,24%	Candidate
René Navarro Albiña	PRSD	288	5,76%
Francisco Madero Santana	PS	1249	25,00%

Region of Coquimbo

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Oscar Pereira Tapia	PDC	4277	75,43%	Candidate
Ramón Velásquez Seguel	PPD	1393	24,57%

Oscar Pereira died on 6 July 2012. The Christian Democrat Party appointed Cristian Galleguillos as their new candidate.^[6]

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Roberto Jacob Jure	PRSD	4012	54,19%	Candidate
Raúl Saldívar Auger	PS	3392	45,81%

Region of Valparaíso

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Hernán Pinto	PDC	5255	54,46%	Candidate
Paula Quintana	PS	4394	45.46%

Metropolitana de Santiago Region

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Christian Vittori	PDC	2709	58,62	Candidate
Hernán Calderón	PS	603	13.05%
Carol Bontinick	PPD	1309	28.33%

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Carolina Tohá	PPD	1950	67,33%	Candidate
Ismael Calderón	PS	178	6,15%
Laura Albornoz	PDC	768	26.52%

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Gonzalo Duarte	PDC	2416	45,23%	Candidate
Viviene Bachelet	INDEP	1197	22.41%
Victor Barrueto	PPD	1728	32,35%

: From 13 May

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Cristóbal Bellolio	INDEP	1297	35,7%
Javier Insulza	PS	857	23,6%
María Josefa Errázuriz	INDEP	1444	39,7%	Candidate

Region of O'Higgins

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Carlos Arellano Baeza	PDC	1470	45,81%	Candidate
Claudio Sule Fernández	INDEP	424	13,21%
Edison Ortiz González	PS	536	16,70%
Raúl Guiñez Martínez	PPD	779	24,28%

Ballot number	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
1	Roberto Córdova Carreño	PS	1,903	73.14	Candidate
2	Andrea Aranda Escudero	PPD	699	26.86
	Total votes		2,602	100.00

Region of the Maule

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Alexis Sepúlveda	PRSD	4585	69,38%	Candidate
Jaime Gazmuri	PS	1393	30,62%

Region of the Bío Bío

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Miguel Vera	PDC	1338	35,98%
Luis Chamorro	PS	361	9,71%
Fabiola Lagos	PPD	2020	54,31%	Candidate

Region of La Araucanía

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Mario González Rebolledo	PRSD	742	60,62%	Candidate
Ana María Soto	PPD	482	39,38%

Region of Los Ríos

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Carlos Atmann Moyano	PDC	1646	77,06%	Candidate
Marcos Cortez Muñoz	INDEP	490	22,94%

Region of Los Lagos

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Juan Cárcamo	PDC	1044	25,50%
Gervoy Paredes	PS	1913	46,73%	Candidate
Gonzalo Pineda	INDEP	1137	27,77%

Region of Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Result
Emilio Boccazzi	INDEP	3952	46,81%	Candidate
Emilio Jiménez	PS	558	6,61%
Juan Morano	PDC	3.932	46,58%

References

^ "Resultados preliminares primarias municipales concertación" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
^ "Ignacio Walker destaca participación en primarias". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
^ Primarias de la Concertación política en Manos de la Amistad Civica Archived 2012-07-02 at archive.today
^ "Primarias en Providencia: conozca cómo será el relajado debate televisivo". La Nación. 9 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
^ "María Josefa Errázuriz vence en las primarias de Providencia y competirá con Cristián Labbé". La Tercera. 13 May 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.
^ "DC ratifica a Cristián Galleguillos como candidato a alcaldía de Coquimbo". Diario El Día (in Spanish). 26 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2012.

External links

Official website (in Spanish)

[resultados-1] "Resultados preliminares primarias municipales concertación" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-04. Retrieved 2012-08-19.

[2] "Ignacio Walker destaca participación en primarias". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2012-08-19.

[3] Primarias de la Concertación política en Manos de la Amistad Civica Archived 2012-07-02 at archive.today

[4] "Primarias en Providencia: conozca cómo será el relajado debate televisivo". La Nación. 9 May 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

[5] "María Josefa Errázuriz vence en las primarias de Providencia y competirá con Cristián Labbé". La Tercera. 13 May 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.

[6] "DC ratifica a Cristián Galleguillos como candidato a alcaldía de Coquimbo". Diario El Día (in Spanish). 26 July 2012. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2012.

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