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TABLE 9
Elections for Governors, Mayors, and Municipal Council Seats, Venezuela
State Winning
Party
December 1989
Governors Mayors Municipal Council Seats
%
Vote
Winner
%
Vote
Party of
Winner
AD COPEI MAS Other AD COPEI MAS Other
D. Federal - - - 2 - - - 17 10 8 1
Anzoátegui COPEI 53,6 34,3 12 1 1 - 52 37 2 11
Apure AD 56,6 55,6 5 1 - 1 25 21 1 -
Aragua MAS 50,5 48,8 2 6 7 - 40 33 31 10
Barinas AD 51,5 51,1 5 5 - - 34 30 3 1
Bolívar CAUSA R 40,3 40,3 5 2 - 2 32 22 - 15
Carabobo COPEI 46,6 31,3 5 4 - 1 30 25 19 12
Cojedes AD 47,6 46,9 5 2 - - 24 20 1 -
Falcón COPEI 50,6 44,1 7 14 - - 63 60 1 9
Guárico AD 52,2 51,5 11 3 - - 52 34 7 3
Lara AD 40,3 39,5 6 2 - - 29 29 10 2
Mérida COPEI 19,1 18,6 5 12 - 5 52 78 3 3
Miranda COPEI 41,4 39,8 9 6 3 - 63 55 14 13
Monagas AD 58,1 56,4 10 - - - 43 22 1 8
Nueva E. AD 49,0 47,6 5 6 - - 38 27 5 5
Portuguesa AD 38,4 38,1 11 3 - - 46 34 10 10
Sucre AD 55,3 55,3 15 - - - 64 32 7 4
Táchira AD 45,3 44,9 11 11 - - 71 56 19 2
Trujillo AD 48,0 48,0 11 2 - 1 44 47 2 7
Yaracuy COPEI 42,0 38,5 3 5 - - 26 26 2 2
Zulia COPEI 38,4 37 4 13 - - 51 70 6 13
T. Amazonas - - - 6 1 - - 4 3 1 1
T. Delta Am. - - - - 1 - - 4 2 3 -
Venezuela - - - 149 99 11 10 903 772 156 132
Source: CSE, Dirección General de Electoral. Figures for Mayors and Muncipal Council Seats from Carrasquero
and Welsch (1989, 15)