{"id":724,"date":"1980-09-17T01:26:15","date_gmt":"1980-09-16T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukrupnenie.com\/countries\/c\/chile\/chile-referendum-on-the-new-constitution-1980.html"},"modified":"2007-09-17T01:26:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T21:26:45","slug":"chile-referendum-on-the-new-constitution-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/countries\/c\/chile\/chile-referendum-on-the-new-constitution-1980.html","title":{"rendered":"Chile. Referendum on the New Constitution 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Plebiscite of 1980 in Chile was a referendum held on September  11, 1980 in order to approve the 1980 Political Constitution of the Republic of  Chile as a replacement for Chile&#8217;s 1925 constitution. The result was 4,204,897  (67.04%) votes in favor and 1,893,420 (30.19%) votes against ratification. This  plebiscite has been, and continues to be, questioned regarding irregularities in  its management.<\/p>\n<p>This election made way for the military regime of Augusto Pinochet,  solidifying his position as President of the Republic (with increased powers)  for 8 years, when he would face a yes-or-no reelection plebiscite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"rowstyle-alt\" id=\"wptable\" >\n\t<thead>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th class=\"sortable-numeric\" style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Provinces<\/th>\n\t\t<th class=\"sortable-numeric\" style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">YES (%)<\/th>\n\t\t<th class=\"sortable-numeric\" style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">NO (%)<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<\/thead>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Tarapaka<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">65.5<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">34.5<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Antofagasta<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">64.52<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">35.48<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Atakama<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">68.84<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">31.16<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Coqimbo<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">77.44<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">22.66<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Valparaiso<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">67.39<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">32.61<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Santiago<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">62.72<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">37.28<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">OHiggins<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">75.16<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">24.84<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Muelo<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">79.85<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">20.15<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Bio-Bio<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">68.21<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">31.79<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Araukania<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">80.18<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">19.82<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Los Lagos<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">78.68<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">21.32<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Laisen<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">67.75<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">32.25<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Magalianes<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">61.62<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">38.32<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr class=\"alt\">\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"left\">Total<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">68.52<\/td>\n\t\t<td style=\"width:30px\" align=\"center\">31.48<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/table><p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"style1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Plebiscite of 1980 in Chile was a referendum held on September 11, 1980 in order to approve the 1980 Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile as a replacement for Chile&#8217;s 1925 constitution. The result was 4,204,897 (67.04%) votes in favor and 1,893,420 (30.19%) votes against ratification. This plebiscite has been, and continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electoralgeography.com\/new\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}