General elections were held in Uruguay on 26 October 2014, alongside a constitutional referendum. As no presidential candidate received an absolute majority in the first round of voting, a runoff took place on 30 November. Primary elections to determine each party's presidential candidate had been held on 1 June.

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2014 Uruguayan general election

← 2009 26 October 2014 (first round) 30 November 2014 (second round) 2019 →
Registered	2,620,791
Turnout	90.51% (first round) 0.60pp 88.58% (second round) 0.60pp
Presidential election
Nominee Tabaré Vázquez Luis Lacalle Pou Party Broad Front National Party Running mate Raúl Sendic Jorge Larrañaga Popular vote 1,241,568 955,741 Percentage 56.50% 43.50%
President before election José Mujica Broad Front Elected President Tabaré Vázquez Broad Front
Parliamentary election
Party Leader % Seats +/– Chamber Broad Front Tabaré Vázquez 49.45 50 0 National Party Luis Lacalle Pou 31.94 32 +2 Colorado Party Pedro Bordaberry 13.33 13 −4 Independent Party Pablo Mieres 3.20 3 +1 Popular Unity Gonzalo Abella 1.17 1 +1 Senate Broad Front Tabaré Vázquez 49.45 15 −1 National Party Luis Lacalle Pou 31.94 10 +1 Colorado Party Pedro Bordaberry 13.33 4 −1 Independent Party Pablo Mieres 3.20 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Presidential election first round results Presidential election second round results Parliamentary election results by constituency

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Incumbent President José Mujica was ineligible to run owing to a constitutional limit on serving consecutive terms. The governing Broad Front nominated Mujica's predecessor, Tabaré Vázquez, as its candidate. Vázquez came within a few thousand votes of a first-round victory and advanced to the runoff with National Party candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera. In the runoff, Vázquez was returned to office with the widest margin since the run-off system was first implemented in 1999. The Broad Front also maintained its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, winning 50 of the 99 seats.

The president was elected using the two-round system, with a run-off required if no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round. The 30 members of the Senate were elected by proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency.^[1] The 99 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected by proportional representation in 19 multi-member constituencies based on the departments. Seats are allocated using the highest averages method.^[2]

The elections were held using the double simultaneous vote method, whereby voters cast a single vote for the party of their choice for the presidency, the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives.

Presidential primaries were held on 1 June to select the candidates.

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Party		Candidate		Ideology	Previous result
					Votes (%)	Seats
	Broad Front		Tabaré Vázquez	Democratic socialism Social democracy	47.96%	50 / 99 16 / 30
	National Party		Luis Lacalle Pou	Conservatism Christian democracy	29.07%	30 / 99 9 / 30
	Colorado Party		Pedro Bordaberry	Liberalism	17.02%	17 / 99 5 / 30
	Independent Party		Pablo Mieres	Social democracy Christian democracy	2.49%	2 / 99 0 / 30
	Popular Unity		Gonzalo Abella	Marxism	0.67%	0 / 99 0 / 30
	Ecologist Radical Intransigent Party		César Vega	Green liberalism	Did not contest
	Workers' Party		Rafael Fernández	Trotskyism	Did not contest

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There were around 250,000 new voters in this election, many of them not used to traditional media.^[3] Campaign managers and advertising agents took notice of this new trend, and implemented an important portion of their campaign via social media.^[4]

Within the Broad Front coalition, the Movement of Popular Participation won six seats in the Senate, the Liber Seregni Front won three and the Socialist Party won two.^[5] Following the second round of the presidential elections, the Broad Front gained an extra seat in the Senate, giving them a majority, as Vice President Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez automatically became a member.^[5]