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{{Short description|Election in the Dominican Republic}} |
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| ⚫ | Parliamentary elections were held in the [[Dominican Republic]] on 16 May 2010 to elect the 32 members of the [[Senate of the Dominican Republic|Senate]] and 183 members of the [[Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic|Chamber of Deputies]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dominican Republic Election Guide|url=http://www.electionguide.org/election.php?ID=1486|publisher=IFES Election Guide}}</ref> Polls forecasted a victory for the [[Dominican Liberation Party]] (PLD) of President [[Leonel Fernández]]. Before the election, 96 of the 178 Chamber of Deputies seats and 22 of the 32 Senate seats were controlled by the PLD.<ref name="AP pre-election">{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gLIyOCS7ddKdKo5UEaWLrqjE0qawD9FO6TC00|title=Dominican legislative vote could boost president|last=Lopez|first=Ezequiel Abiu|date=17 May 2010|work=Associated Press|accessdate=17 May 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
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==Background== |
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| ⚫ | The elections were held alongside local elections in 155 municipalities and elections for 20 seats in the [[Central American Parliament]].<ref name="AP pre-election"/> The Central American Parliament representatives were being elected for the first time, having previously been appointed to their posts.<ref name="stabroek"/> More than {{Nowrap|6 million}} people were eligible to vote in the election.<ref name="stabroek"/> |
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==Conduct== |
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The election was conducted amidst sporadic violence with an opposition [[Dominican Revolutionary Party]] (PRD) supporter being killed and three wounded in a clash between government and opposition supporters in [[San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic|San Cristóbal]].<ref name="afp">{{cite news|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jmd6R91_xSSqxiDnP06ho6eVn3tw|title=Bloodshed mars Dominican elections|date=17 May 2010|work=AFP|accessdate=17 May 2010}}</ref> |
The election was conducted amidst sporadic violence with an opposition [[Dominican Revolutionary Party]] (PRD) supporter being killed and three wounded in a clash between government and opposition supporters in [[San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic|San Cristóbal]].<ref name="afp">{{cite news|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jmd6R91_xSSqxiDnP06ho6eVn3tw|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124182329/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jmd6R91_xSSqxiDnP06ho6eVn3tw|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 January 2013|title=Bloodshed mars Dominican elections|date=17 May 2010|work=AFP|accessdate=17 May 2010}}</ref> The dead man was identified as the bodyguard of a PRD mayoral candidate, who was said to have been shot four times with a [[submachine gun]] and died in hospital.<ref name="stabroek">{{cite news|title=Three dead as Dominican Republic holds elections|url=http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/world/05/17/three-dead-as-dominican-republic-holds-elections/|accessdate=17 May 2010|newspaper=Stabroek News|date=17 May 2010}}</ref> One of the injured men was the driver for the present mayor. In addition a PLD leader died on 16 May after being surprised whilst purchasing identity documents.<ref name="stabroek"/> A third person had lost their life on 15 May in clashes between PLD and PRD supporters in [[Samaná (town)|Samaná]].<ref name="stabroek"/> |
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Election commission officials and representatives from the PRD and PLD made appeals for calm during the election.<ref name="afp"/> |
Election commission officials and representatives from the PRD and PLD made appeals for calm during the election.<ref name="afp"/> President [[Leonel Fernández]] said that the violence would not affect the poll results.<ref name="afp"/> |
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An election monitoring mission from the [[Organization of American States]] said that it had received complaints of fake or purchased identity documents being used to vote. |
An election monitoring mission from the [[Organization of American States]] said that it had received complaints of fake or purchased identity documents being used to vote. However, it ratified the election as mostly free and fair.<ref name="afp"/> |
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==Results== |
==Results== |
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|image=[[File:Cámara de Diputados de la República Dominicana (2010).svg|220px]][[File:Senado de la República Dominicana (2010).svg|220px]] |
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|seattype1=House|seattype2=+/–|seattype3=Senate|seattype4=+/– |
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|party1=[[Dominican Liberation Party]]|votes1=1380601|st1t1=93|st2t1=–3|st3t1=28|st4t1=+6|st5t1= |
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|party2=[[Dominican Revolutionary Party]]|votes2=1272536|st1t2=73|st2t2=+13|st3t2=0|st4t2=–7|st5t2= |
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|party3=[[Social Christian Reformist Party]]|votes3=203729|st1t3=11|st2t3=–11|st3t3=4|st4t3=+1|st5t3= |
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|party4=[[Alternative Democratic Movement]]|votes4=46630|st1t4=1|st2t4=New|st3t4=0|st4t4=New|st5t4= |
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|party5=[[Alliance for Democracy (Dominican Republic)|Alliance for Democracy]]|votes5=46250|st1t5=1|st2t5=+1|st3t5=0|st4t5=0|st5t5= |
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|party6=[[Social Democratic Institutional Bloc]]|votes6=43665|st1t6=1|st2t6=+1|st3t6=0|st4t6=0|st5t6= |
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|party7=[[Quisqueyano Christian Democratic Party]]|votes7=37283|st1t7=0|st2t7=0|st3t7=0|st4t7=0|st5t7= |
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|party8=[[Broad Front (Dominican Republic)|Movement for Independence, Unity and Change]]|votes8=31584|st1t8=1|st2t8=+1|st3t8=0|st4t8=0|st5t8= |
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|party9=[[Christian Democratic Union (Dominican Republic)|Christian Democratic Union]]|votes9=30267|st1t9=0|st2t9=0|st3t9=0|st4t9=0|st5t9= |
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|party10=[[National Progressive Force]]|votes10=22678|st1t10=1|st2t10=New|st3t10=0|st4t10=New|st5t10= |
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|party11=[[Revolutionary Social Democratic Party]]|votes11=20838|st1t11=0|st2t11=0|st3t11=0|st4t11=0|st5t11= |
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|party12=[[Dominican Humanist Party]]|votes12=18836|st1t12=0|st2t12=0|st3t12=0|st4t12=0|st5t12= |
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|party13=[[Dominican Workers' Party]]|votes13=17673|st1t13=0|st2t13=0|st3t13=0|st4t13=0|st5t13= |
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|party14=[[Christian People's Party (Dominican Republic)|Christian People's Party]]|votes14=16340|st1t14=1|st2t14=+1|st3t14=0|st4t14=0|st5t14= |
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|party15=[[Dominicans for Change]]|votes15=16045|st1t15=0|st2t15=New|st3t15=0|st4t15=New|st5t15= |
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|party16=[[People's Democratic Party (Dominican Republic)|People's Democratic Party]]|votes16=15784|st1t16=0|st2t16=0|st3t16=0|st4t16=0|st5t16= |
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|party17=[[National Unity Party (Dominican Republic)|National Unity Party]]|votes17=13925|st1t17=0|st2t17=0|st3t17=0|st4t17=0|st5t17= |
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|party18=[[National Citizen Will Party|National Civic Veterans Party]]|votes18=13308|st1t18=0|st2t18=0|st3t18=0|st4t18=0|st5t18= |
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|party19=[[Liberal Reformist Party (Dominican Republic)|Liberal Party of the Dominican Republic]]|votes19=13229|st1t19=0|st2t19=0|st3t19=0|st4t19=0|st5t19= |
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|party20=[[Civic Renovation Party]]|votes20=12238|st1t20=0|st2t20=New|st3t20=0|st4t20=New|st5t20= |
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|party21=Liberal Party of Action|votes21=11422|st1t21=0|st2t21=New|st3t21=0|st4t21=New|st5t21= |
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|party22=[[Institutional Democratic Party (Dominican Republic)|Institutional Democratic Party]]|votes22=9741|st1t22=0|st2t22=New|st3t22=0|st4t22=New|st5t22= |
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|party23=[[Independent Revolutionary Party]]|votes23=8083|st1t23=0|st2t23=0|st3t23=0|st4t23=0|st5t23= |
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|party24=[[Green Socialist Party]]|votes24=6595|st1t24=0|st2t24=New|st3t24=0|st4t24=New|st5t24= |
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|party25=[[Modern Revolutionary Party|Dominican Social Alliance]]|votes25=560|st1t25=0|st2t25=0|st3t25=0|st4t25=0|st5t25= |
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|party26=Green Party of Democratic Unity|votes26=542|st1t26=0|st2t26=0|st3t26=0|st4t26=0|st5t26= |
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|invalid=140986 |
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|total_st2t=+5|total_st4t=0 |
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|electorate=6116397 |
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|source=[https://issuu.com/publicacionesjce/docs/resultados-2010-1ra.-parte JCE] |
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===Local elections=== |
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The PLD had 91 mayors elected of the 155 positions. The PRD and [[Social Christian Reformist Party]] won 58 and the Partido Popular Cristiano and the Christian Democratic Union won one apiece.<ref name="epa">{{cite news|title=Oposición dominicana insiste en fraude y denuncia amenazas de oficialistas|language=Spanish|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5hP39FpP3-3jIiYiw_phv0TFdBjdw|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905220320/http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5hP39FpP3-3jIiYiw_phv0TFdBjdw|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 September 2012|accessdate=23 May 2010|newspaper=European Pressphoto Agency|date=22 May 2010}}</ref> The PRD blamed the 32 single-seat senate constituencies for their poor showing. The single seats led to a lack of proportionality with them failing to take any despite winning 42% of the vote.<ref name="today">{{cite news|title=Vega rails the Government's corruption; too many provinces|url=http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/5/19/35751/Vega-rails-the-Governments-corruption-too-many-provinces|accessdate=23 May 2010|newspaper=Dominican Today|date=19 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523063417/http://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/5/19/35751/Vega-rails-the-Governments-corruption-too-many-provinces|archivedate=23 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The PRD increased its overall vote share to 42% whilst the PRSC saw its vote share slump to 2% from 24% in 2002.<ref name="today"/> |
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The leader of the opposition PRD has alleged fraud and blackmail were carried out by the ruling PLD.<ref name="epa"/> |
The leader of the opposition PRD has alleged fraud and blackmail were carried out by the ruling PLD.<ref name="epa"/> It has been alleged that in some constituencies the number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered voters.<ref name="epa"/> A press conference in which the PRD were to have presented evidence of fraud was cancelled with no explanation, while leaders of the PRD have called its current party president to step down.<ref name="conference">{{cite news|title=Opposition party unexplainably scrubs presentation of alleged irregularities in polls|url=http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/5/20/35763/Opposition-party-unexplainably-scrubs-presentation-of-alleged|accessdate=23 May 2010|newspaper=Dominican Today|date=20 May 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523063432/http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/5/20/35763/Opposition-party-unexplainably-scrubs-presentation-of-alleged|archivedate=23 May 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The PRD has established a commission to co-ordinate challenges against the results.<ref name="conference"/> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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[[fr:Élections sénatoriales, législatives et municipales dominicaines de 2010]] |
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 2010 to elect the 32 members of the Senate and 183 members of the Chamber of Deputies.[1] Polls forecasted a victory for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) of President Leonel Fernández. Before the election, 96 of the 178 Chamber of Deputies seats and 22 of the 32 Senate seats were controlled by the PLD.[2]
The elections were held alongside local elections in 155 municipalities and elections for 20 seats in the Central American Parliament.[2] The Central American Parliament representatives were being elected for the first time, having previously been appointed to their posts.[3] More than 6 million people were eligible to vote in the election.[3]
Conduct
[edit]The election was conducted amidst sporadic violence with an opposition Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) supporter being killed and three wounded in a clash between government and opposition supporters in San Cristóbal.[4] The dead man was identified as the bodyguard of a PRD mayoral candidate, who was said to have been shot four times with a submachine gun and died in hospital.[3] One of the injured men was the driver for the present mayor. In addition a PLD leader died on 16 May after being surprised whilst purchasing identity documents.[3] A third person had lost their life on 15 May in clashes between PLD and PRD supporters in Samaná.[3]
Election commission officials and representatives from the PRD and PLD made appeals for calm during the election.[4] President Leonel Fernández said that the violence would not affect the poll results.[4]
An election monitoring mission from the Organization of American States said that it had received complaints of fake or purchased identity documents being used to vote. However, it ratified the election as mostly free and fair.[4]
Results
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Local elections
[edit]The PLD had 91 mayors elected of the 155 positions. The PRD and Social Christian Reformist Party won 58 and the Partido Popular Cristiano and the Christian Democratic Union won one apiece.[5] The PRD blamed the 32 single-seat senate constituencies for their poor showing. The single seats led to a lack of proportionality with them failing to take any despite winning 42% of the vote.[6] The PRD increased its overall vote share to 42% whilst the PRSC saw its vote share slump to 2% from 24% in 2002.[6]
The leader of the opposition PRD has alleged fraud and blackmail were carried out by the ruling PLD.[5] It has been alleged that in some constituencies the number of votes cast exceeded the number of registered voters.[5] A press conference in which the PRD were to have presented evidence of fraud was cancelled with no explanation, while leaders of the PRD have called its current party president to step down.[7] The PRD has established a commission to co-ordinate challenges against the results.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dominican Republic Election Guide". IFES Election Guide.
- ^ a b Lopez, Ezequiel Abiu (17 May 2010). "Dominican legislative vote could boost president". Associated Press. Retrieved 17 May 2010.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e "Three dead as Dominican Republic holds elections". Stabroek News. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Bloodshed mars Dominican elections". AFP. 17 May 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
- ^ a b c "Oposición dominicana insiste en fraude y denuncia amenazas de oficialistas". European Pressphoto Agency (in Spanish). 22 May 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Vega rails the Government's corruption; too many provinces". Dominican Today. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Opposition party unexplainably scrubs presentation of alleged irregularities in polls". Dominican Today. 20 May 2010. Archived from the original on 23 May 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
