# 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.
Following the defeat of the Concertación in the 2009 presidential election, the left-wing parties' primaries were qualified as "defective and restricted." 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. María Josefa Errázuriz was eventually chosen to face current-mayor Cristián Labbé in the October elections.

## General results

| # | Party | 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 | Total | Total | 335 | 142 | 313,817 | 100% |

## Results in selected communes
### Region of Arica y Parinacota
   ### Putre

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

### Region of Tarapacá
   ### Colchane

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

### Region of Antofagasta
   ### Antofagasta

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

### Region of Atacama
   ### Copiapó

| 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
   ### 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.

   ### La Serena

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

### Region of Valparaíso
   ### Valparaiso

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

### Metropolitana de Santiago Region
   ### Maipú

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

   ### Santiago

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

   ### La Florida

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

   ### Providencia

    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
   ### Rancagua

| 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% | |

   ### Pichilemu

| 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
   ### Talca

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

### Region of the Bío Bío
   ### Hualpén

| 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
   ### Padre Las Casas

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

### Region of Los Ríos
   ### Valdivia

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

### Region of Los Lagos
   ### Puerto Montt

| 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
   ### Punta Arenas

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