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Colchane, in the province of Tarapacá, achieved a record in today’s vote: it is the commune where the Rejection was imposed with the greatest margin throughout the country. 74.06% of those who participated – 505 voters, according to the 100% vote count – took this option, a reality almost completely inverse than the national average.
The municipality is one of the five communes in the country where the Rejection achieved victory. From end to end, another of the municipalities is Antarctica, where the option doubled the Approval: 21 votes against 10, with 67.74%.
But in addition to that group, the other three communes where the option was imposed are in the Metropolitan Region: Las Condes, Vitacura and Lo Barnechea. They share a pattern: They have the highest income and a history of voting for the right in elections. And, in fact, they made up the former 23rd district, the place where, when the binominal system ruled, the parties of that bloc achieved a consistent doubling in the Chamber of Deputies between 1993 and 2017, when the electoral formula was changed.
In Vitacura, with 73.07% of the vote, the Rejection was double the Approval: 67.03% against 32.97%. In Lo Barnechea, meanwhile, the margin was somewhat lower, but still wide: 59.96% against 40.04%, with 56.35% of the votes counted.
And Las Condes was the commune where the difference was narrower. 56.12% against 43.88% of the Approval, with the count at 67.87%. In this commune, in addition, there is a particularity: its mayor is the UDI Joaquín Lavín, one of the presidential letters of his sector, but who actively opted to support the Approval, the option he lost in his municipality.
In the absence of the final closing of computations, in the rest of the 346 communes of the country the Approval won. In one group, yes, the Rejection was over 40%. Among them, a block of communes in La Araucanía stands out, the region where the option got the most support: 33.43%, at 87.17% of the count. Among the municipalities are Ercilla, Victoria, Lonquimay and Curacautín, which have been among those who have experienced episodes of tension in the framework of the Mapuche conflict.
