Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo

Uruguay's Poverty Measures Expose Gaps Between Growth Narratives and Lived Realities

Uruguay’s National Statistics Institute (INE) reported a 9.1% income-based poverty rate for early 2024, down from 10.4% in 2023. This marks the first statistically significant drop in years. Meanwhile, a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (IPM) unveiled in February 2025 revealed 18.9% of Uruguayans-661,000 people-face deprivation across education, housing, and employment, despite the nation’s reputation for […]

The ruling party in Uruguay, represented by the Broad Front, retained the Montevideo Intendency, which will be led until 2030 by Mario Bergara, according to the first results of the departmental and municipal elections held on Sunday throughout the Uruguayan territory. READ ALSO: About 35% of Uruguayans have voted in departmental and municipal elections The political force of the current president Yamandú Orsi, received 49.4 percent of the votes…

Uruguay’s municipal elections: National Party dominates, Frente Amplio retains Montevideo

Uruguay’s 2025 municipal and departmental (provincial) elections concluded with results reinforcing the country’s traditional political landscape. The left-wing Frente Amplio retained its stronghold in Montevideo and Canelones, while the center-right National Party (Partido Nacional) maintained its dominance across most rural regions, securing a total of 13 departments.

La Usina de Percepción Ciudadana de La Diaria noted that Mario Bergara and Francisco Leganini were elected respectively

Latin American Abstract, May 12, 2025. Photo: Mario Bergara, May 11, at the Huella de Seregni. / Martín Varela Umpiérrez. Mario Bergara will be the next mayor of Montevideo and the FA won again the Municipality F; the National Party retained 13 departments and Rivera remains the only red bastion. [...] La entrada Uruguay. Elections: The Broad Front retained Montevideo and Canelones, recovered Río Negro and lost Salto; Lavalleja will be defined b…

Luvis Hochimín Pareja The central leftist coalition Frente Amplio, led by President Yamandú Orsi, consolidated its leadership in Uruguayan politics by imposing itself in the departments of Montevideo and Canelones, which concentrate more than half of the country's electoral circuits, recovered Río Negro but lost Salto, in the elections of mayors in the 19 departments of the country.The departmental elections of 2025 closed with a scenario of rel…