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The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) is the upper house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (Asamblea General). The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation. This is a list of Presidents of Uruguay. ... Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas (born 17 January 1940) is the current President of Uruguay. ... This is a list of Vice Presidents of Uruguay. ... The General Assembly (Asamblea General) has two chambers. ... The Chamber of Senators (Cámara de Senadores) is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (Asamblea General). ... Political parties in Uruguay lists political parties in Uruguay. ... Politics of Uruguay Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Uruguay ... The Ley de Lemas (Spanish, Law of Lemmas) is a law dictating a voting system that employs an unusual open-list party-list proportional representation method. ... Uruguay consists of 19 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) (capitals in parentheses): Artigas (Artigas). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require rewriting and/or reformatting. ... The cellulose plant conflict between Argentina and Uruguay is an ongoing conflict between private people, organizations and the governments of these two South American countries rooted at the construction of cellulose processing plants on the Uruguay River. ... This is the History of Uruguay. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... The Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) is the upper house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (Asamblea General). ... The General Assembly (Asamblea General) has two chambers. ... Proportional representation, also known as full representation, is an electoral system in which the overall votes are reflected in the overall outcome of the body or bodies of representatives. ...


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Main article: 2004 Uruguay Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
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Summary of the 31 October 2004 General Assembly of Uruguay election results
Parties and alliances Votes Chamber of Deputies Chamber of Senators
% Seats % Seats
Broad Front - Progressive Encounter - New Majority (Frente Amplio Encuentro Progresista Nueva Mayoria) 50.4 52 17
National Party (Partido Nacional-Blancos) 34.3 35 11
Colorado Party (Partido Colorado) 10.4 10 3
Independent Party (Partido Independiente) 1.8 2 -
Total (turnout %)   99   31
Source: Corte Electoral and El País Uruguay, Angus Reid


 
 

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