List of female Chilean presidential candidates

  • Left and center: Sara Larraín and Gladys Marín are the first female candidates to contest the first round of a presidential election in Chile.
  • Right: Michelle Bachelet became the country's first female president in 2005 and was re-elected in 2013.

The following is a list of female Chilean presidential candidates. Candidates are nominated or selected by political parties or coalitions, or they run as independents after collecting the mininum number of signatures required by electoral authority Servel before each presidential election.

Between the 1952 presidential election —the first to include women's suffrage— and the 2021 presidential election, eight women have participated in at least the first round of voting. That number rises to nine if primary elections are included.

Listed below are women who have reached at least a primary election.

History

20th century

21st century

Presidential candidates

Year Picture Name Party Coalition Round Votes % Elected president
2005
Michelle Bachelet Socialist Party (PS) Coalition of Parties for Democracy Runoff 3,723,019 53.50 Michelle Bachelet
2013 New Majority 3,470,379 62.17
2005 Coalition of Parties for Democracy First round 3,190,691 45.96
2013 New Majority 3,075,839 46.70
2013
Evelyn Matthei Independent Democratic Union (UDI) Alliance Runoff 2,111,891 37.83
2013 First round 1,648,481 25.03
2017
Beatriz Sánchez Independent Broad Front First round 1,338,037 20.27 Sebastián Piñera
2021
Yasna Provoste Christian Democratic Party (PDC) New Social Pact 815,563 11.60 Gabriel Boric
2017
Carolina Goic Christian Democratic Party (PDC) None 387,784 5.88 Sebastián Piñera
1999
Gladys Marín Comunist Party (PCCh) The Left 225,224 3.19 Ricardo Lagos
2013
Roxana Miranda Equality Party None 81,873 1.24 Michelle Bachelet
1999
Sara Larraín Independent None 31,319 0.44 Ricardo Lagos

See also

References

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