Parliamentary elections were held in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

on 6 March 1949.

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...

(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p262 Although the

Social Christian Conservative Party The Social Christian Conservative Party ( es, Partido Conservador Social Cristiano, PCSC) was a centrist political party in Chile, founded in 1949 as the Conservative Party split in two factions. For electoral purposes, one of the factions was name ...

received the most votes in the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

elections, the

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won the most seats, whilst the Radical Party remained the largest party in the

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

Electoral system

The term length for Senators was eight years, with around half of the Senators elected every four years. This election saw 20 of the 45 Senate seats up for election.

Campaign

Having won 15 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1945 elections, the

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

was banned in 1948.Nohlen, p254

Results

Senate

Chamber of Deputies

References

{{Chilean elections Elections in Chile 1949 in Chile

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