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Without a doubt, the plebiscite this Sunday, October 25, is historic. Not only because Chileans will be able to draft a new Constitution with a 100% elected constitutional convention, but also because these elections became the electoral process with the largest number of voters since the return to democracy.
With 98.63% of the polls scrutinized, the Servel reported a vote of 7,459,388 people. A figure that surpassed all the elections held from 1989 onwards.
For example, in the 1999 presidential elections, between Ricardo Lagos and Joaquín Lavín, a total of 7,178,727 men and women went to the polls, in the second round, to elect Lagos as the person who would lead the country at that time.
The consultation also surpassed the number of voters in the 2005 elections when Michelle Bachelet prevailed over Sebastián Piñera. In that occasion 6,959,413 compatriots exercised their right to vote.
The plebiscite also won the 2009 election where Piñera and Eduardo Frei met. Process that had the participation of 6,958,972 voters.
He also beat the election where Piñera was elected, in 2017, when 7,032,878 people (considering Chileans abroad) were part of that election process.
During the course of the day, it was already foreseen that today’s vote would be a historic vote. This was recognized by the president of the Servel, Patricio Santamaría, who predicted that today’s election “Obviously it is going to be the highest participation since 2012 when the voluntary vote was established.”
