General elections were held in Paraguay on 22 April 2018. President Horacio Cartes and Vice-President

Juan Afara Juan Eudes Afara Maciel (born August 19, 1960) is a Paraguayan politician who was elected as Vice President of Paraguay, Vice President in 2013 Paraguayan general election, 2013 elections. He is a member of the Colorado Party (Paraguay), Colorado ...

of the Colorado Party were not eligible for re-election. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Mario Abdo Benítez, who defeated Efraín Alegre of the GANAR alliance. The Colorado Party also won the most seats 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 ...

and

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 ...

. The new President and Vice-President took office on 15 August 2018 and will leave office in August 2023.

Electoral system

The President of Paraguay is elected in one round of voting by plurality. The 80 members of the

are elected by

closed list Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some inf ...

proportional representation in 18 multi-member constituencies based on the

departments Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

. The 45 members of the

are elected from a single national constituency using closed list proportional representation.Senate: Electoral system
IPU

Opinion polls

Results

President

Senate

Elected Senators

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Chamber of Deputies

Departmental Governors

References

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