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General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 19 May 2024 to elect a president, vice-president, 32 senators, 190 deputies and 20 PARLACEN deputies. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Incumbent President Luis Abinader won re-election to a second term with a majority of the vote in the first round, eliminating the need for a runoff. Abinader, just after having won a supermajority in both houses of the Congress, announced a constitutional reform.
The President of the Dominican Republic is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives 50% + 1 vote, or more, of the total votes, a second-round runoff is held between the two candidates with the highest votes in the first round.
The 32 members of the Senate are elected from the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional using first-past-the-post voting. [5]
The 190 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected in three groups; 178 are elected by proportional representation from 32 multi-member constituencies based on the 31 provinces and the Distrito Nacional, with the number of seats based on the population of each province. A further seven members are elected by proportional representation by Dominican expatriates in three overseas constituencies, and five seats are allocated at the national level to parties that received at least 1% of the vote nationally, giving preference to those that did not win any of the 178 constituency seats. [6]
The 20 seats in the Central American Parliament are elected by proportional representation.
Around eight million people were eligible to vote in this election. Voting began at 07:00 on 19 May and closed at 17:00. [7] [8] The process was described as smooth, apart from small irregularities reported by opposition parties. [9]
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Party | Presidential candidate | Vice presidential candidate | |
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Partido Revolucionario Moderno (PRM) | Luis Abinader | Raquel Peña | |
Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) | Abel Martínez Durán | Zoraima Cuello | |
Partido Fuerza del Pueblo (FP) | Leonel Fernández | Ingrid Mendoza | |
Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) | Miguel Vargas | Joel Díaz Ureña | |
Frente Amplio (FA) | María Teresa Cabrera | Jesús Díaz Morán | |
Movimiento Patria para Todos y Todas (MPT) | Fulgencio Severino | Francisca Peguero | |
Partido Generacion de Servidores (PGS) | Carlos Peña | Nikauly de la Mota | |
Opción Democrática (OD) | Virginia Antares Rodríguez | Ico Abreu | |
Partido Esperanza Democratica (PED) | Roque Espaillat | José Ernesto Fadul |
Among notable issues during the campaign was the effects of the political unrest in Haiti and increased migration from the latter country. During a debate, President Abinader pledged to continue the deportation of illegal immigrants and finish construction of a wall along the border with Haiti. Both Leonel Fernandez and Abel Martínez also supported a harsh stance on migration. [11]
Pollster | Date(s) | Abinader (PRM) | Martínez (PLD) | Fernandez (FP) |
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AtlasIntel | 6–9 May 2024 | 65.2% | 11.5% | 17.3% |
Acxiona | 5–8 May 2024 | 67.2% | 7.22% | 21.5% |
Gallup-RCC Media | 1–4 May 2024 | 60% | 11.1% | 24.6% |
Markestrategia | 15–17 April 2024 | 67.9% | 7.1% | 18.4% |
Gallup RCC Media | 6–9 March 2024 | 64% | 12% | 19% |
CID Gallup | 27–28 February 2024 | 59% | 13% | 27% |
RD Elige | 20–26 February 2024 | 52.3% | 13% | 29% |
Acxiona | 2–5 February 2024 | 54% | 9% | 24% |
ACD Media | 15–18 January 2024 | 55.1% | 10.4% | 26.3% |
Centro Económico del Cibao | 17–18 December 2023 | 58.2% | 9.9% | 22.9% |
RD Elige | 1–9 December 2023 | 52.9% | 16.9% | 28.7% |
Greenberg-Diario Libre | 15–18 November 2023 | 49% | 17% | 29% |
Markestrategia | 12–14 November 2023 | 57.6% | 10.7% | 24.6% |
Gallup RCC Media | 25–29 October 2023 | 55.2% | 13.5% | 27.4% |
Consulting Research Group | 21–23 September 2023 | 36.3% | 30.9% | 20.1% |
RD Elige | 12–16 September 2023 | 53.1% | 16.6% | 27.8% |
Markestrategia | 26–28 August 2023 | 54.6% | 12.5% | 24.8% |
Acxiona | 1–5 August 2023 | 53.0% | 11.0% | 22.0% |
Markestrategia | 19–21 July 2023 | 55.8% | 13.1% | 29.1% |
Gallup RCC Media | 11–14 June 2023 | 47.7% | 19.0% | 28.9% |
RD Elige | 17–20 May 2023 | 47.3% | 21.5% | 27.0% |
Sondeos | 22–30 April 2023 | 48% | 11.0% | 31.0% |
Gallup RCC Media | 1–5 April 2023 | 48.5% | 18.2% | 25.9% |
RD Elige | 14–18 March 2023 | 44.8% | 27.6% | 22.4% |
Grupo de Investigaciones Digitales | 30 January–3 February 2023 | 49.9% | 21.0% | 18.0% |
Markestrategia | 20–22 January 2023 | 47.7% | 14.8% | 27.0% |
Acxiona | 24–28 November 2022 | 44.0% | 17.0% | 23.0% |
Preliminary results showed that Abinader had won outright re-election in the first round with around 60% of the vote, while his Modern Revolutionary Party was expected to win a supermajority in the Congress of the Dominican Republic. [9]
Re-elected President Abinader, after obtaining a supermajority in both houses, announced a constitutional reform.
Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Luis Abinader | Raquel Peña | Modern Revolutionary Party | 2,505,186 | 57.45 | |
Leonel Fernández | Ingrid Mendoza | People's Force | 1,257,907 | 28.85 | |
Abel Martínez | Zoraima Cuello | Dominican Liberation Party | 453,037 | 10.39 | |
Roque Espaillat | José Ernesto Fadul | Democratic Hope Party | 59,315 | 1.36 | |
Carlos Peña | Nikauly de la Mota | Generation of Servants Party | 31,519 | 0.72 | |
Virginia Antares Rodríguez | Ico Abreu | Democratic Choice | 25,146 | 0.58 | |
Miguel Vargas | Joel Díaz Ureña | Dominican Revolutionary Party | 19,740 | 0.45 | |
María Teresa Cabrera | Jesús Díaz Morán | Broad Front | 6,236 | 0.14 | |
Fulgencio Severino | Francisca Peguero | Country for All Movement | 2,730 | 0.06 | |
Total | 4,360,816 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,145,548 | – | |||
Source: JCE |
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The Modern Revolutionary Party won a supermajority in the Senate, seeing their seat total increase from 17 to 24.
Party | Seats | +/– | |
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Modern Revolutionary Party | 24 | +7 | |
Dominican Liberation Party | 0 | −6 | |
People's Force | 3 | +2 | |
Social Christian Reformist Party | 1 | −5 | |
Liberal Reformist Party | 1 | +1 | |
People First Party | 1 | +1 | |
Alliance for Democracy | 1 | +1 | |
Independent Revolutionary Party | 1 | +1 | |
Total | 32 | – | |
Source: Diario Libre (Elections 2024) |
The Modern Revolutionary Party won a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies, the very first time ever a political party achieved this in modern Dominican history.
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Both Leonel Fernandez and Abel Martínez conceded to Abinader shortly after the release of the result. In his victory speech, Abinader said that the "changes that we’ve made are going to be irreversible”, adding that the "best is yet to come". [9]
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