# 1994 Uruguayan general election

General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside a double referendum. The result was a narrow victory for the Colorado Party, which won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and received the most votes in the presidential election.
Tabaré Vázquez of the Broad Front received the most votes of any presidential candidate. However, former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti returned to office by virtue of the Colorados receiving the most votes of any party. Under the multi-candidate Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Vázquez finished just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-up National Party, even though he won over 121,000 more votes than Sanguinetti. At the time, this was the best showing for a third party since the presidential system was reinstituted with the 1967 constitution.
They were the last presidential elections conducted under the Ley de Lemas system, which had been used for much of the 20th century and had been reinstituted in 1967. In 1996 a referendum amended the constitution to restrict each party to a single presidential candidate, effective from the 1999 elections.

## Results

Seats :
| Party | Party | Presidential candidate | Votes | % | Chamber | +/– | Senate | +/– |
| | Colorado Party | Julio María Sanguinetti | 500,767 | 24.68 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | Colorado Party | Jorge Batlle Ibáñez | 102,551 | 5.05 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | Colorado Party | Jorge Pacheco Areco | 51,936 | 2.56 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | Colorado Party | Jorge Barreiro | 227 | 0.01 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | Colorado Party | al lema | 947 | 0.05 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | Colorado Party | Total | 656,428 | 32.35 | 32 | +2 | 11 | +2 |
| | National Party | Alberto Volonté | 301,698 | 14.87 | 31 | –8 | 10 | –2 |
| | National Party | Juan Andrés Ramírez | 264,258 | 13.02 | 31 | –8 | 10 | –2 |
| | National Party | Carlos Julio Pereyra | 65,666 | 3.24 | 31 | –8 | 10 | –2 |
| | National Party | al lema | 1,762 | 0.09 | 31 | –8 | 10 | –2 |
| | National Party | Total | 633,384 | 31.21 | 31 | –8 | 10 | –2 |
| | Broad Front–Progressive Encounter | Tabaré Vázquez | 621,226 | 30.61 | 31 | +10 | 9 | +2 |
| | New Space | Rafael Michelini | 104,773 | 5.16 | 5 | –4 | 1 | –1 |
| | Partido Verde Eto-Ecologista | Rodolfo Tálice | 5,498 | 0.27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Party of the Sun | Mabel Portillo | 2,258 | 0.11 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Civic Union | Luis Pieri | 2,063 | 0.10 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Blue Party | Roberto Canessa | 1,645 | 0.08 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Party for Social Security | Elías Yaffalian | 828 | 0.04 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Workers' Party | Juan Vital Andrada | 378 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Eastern Alliance | Federico Silva Ledesma | 333 | 0.02 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Righteous Movement | Bolívar Espínola | 161 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Democratic Labour Party | Pompeyo Giansanti | 120 | 0.01 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Republican Party | Ademar Álvarez Franco | 117 | 0.01 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| | Progressive Movement | Elías Perdomo | 69 | 0.00 | 0 | New | 0 | New |
| Total | Total | Total | 2,029,281 | 100.00 | 99 | 0 | 31 | +1 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 2,029,281 | 95.31 | | | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 99,964 | 4.69 | | | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 2,129,245 | 100.00 | | | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 2,330,154 | 91.38 | | | | |
| Source: Electoral Court |||||||||