Venezuelan presidential election, 1963
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General elections were held in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

 on 1 December 1963. The presidential elections were won by Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero was President of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He fought against the dictators Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was a charter member of the Acción Democrática party....

 of Democratic Action
Democratic Action
Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...

, who received 32.8% of the vote, whilst his party won 66 of the 179 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 of the 47 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 92.3% in the presidential election and 90.8% in the Congressional elections.

President

Candidate Party Votes %
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero was President of Venezuela from 1964 until 1969. He fought against the dictators Juan Vicente Gómez and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and was a charter member of the Acción Democrática party....

Democratic Action
Democratic Action
Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...

957,574 32.8
Rafael Caldera
Rafael Caldera
Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez was president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999.Caldera taught sociology and law at various universities before entering politics. He was a founding member of COPEI, Venezuela's Christian Democratic party...

Copei 589,177 20.2
Jóvito Villalba
Jóvito Villalba
Jóvito Villalba Gutiérrez , was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician, member of the Generation of 1928, founder of the party URD and signer of the Punto Fijo Pact.-Background:...

URD
Democratic Republican Union
The Democratic Republican Union is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constitutional assembly, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election...

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551,266 18.9
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri , was a Venezuelan intellectual, lawyer, journalist, writer, television producer and politician.- Life :...

Independents for the National Front 469,363 16.1
Wolfgang Larazabal Popular Democratic Front 275,325 9.4
Raúl Ramon Giménez Opposition Democratic Action 66,880 2.3
Germán Borreglas National Action Movement 9,292 0.3
Invalid/blank votes 188,686
Total 3,107,563 100
Source: Nohlen

Congress

Party Votes % Seats
Chamber +/- Senate +/-
Democratic Action
Democratic Action
Democratic Action is a centrist Venezuelan political party established in 1941. The party and its antecedents played an important role in the early years of Venezuelan democracy, and led the government during Venezuela's first democratic period...

936,124 32.7 66
22
Copei 595,697 20.8 39
19
8
2
Democratic Republican Union
Democratic Republican Union
The Democratic Republican Union is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constitutional assembly, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election...

497,454 17.4 29
7
Independents for the National Front 381,600 13.3 22 New 5 New
Popular Democratic Front 274,096 9.6 16 New 4 New
Opposition Democratic Action 93,494 3.3 5 New 1 New
Socialist Party of Venezuela 24,670 0.9 1
1
0 0
Independent National Electoral Movement 18,510 0.6 1
1
0 0
National Action Movement 15,746 0.6 0 New 0 New
National Authentic Party 14,555 0.5 0 New 0 New
Popular Electoral Crusade Group S 4,230 0.1 0 New 0 New
Invalid/blank votes 197,708
Total 3,059,434 100 179 +47 47 -4
Source: Nohlen


Note that there is a difference of 100 votes between the party total and the overall total.
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