2018 Paraguayan general election

General elections were held in Paraguay on 22 April 2018. President Horacio Cartes and Vice-President Juan Afara of the Colorado Party were not eligible for re-election. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Mario Abdo Benítez, who defeated Efraín Alegre of the GANAR alliance. The Colorado Party also won the most seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. The new President and Vice-President took office on 15 August 2018 and will leave office in August 2023.

Electoral system

The President of Paraguay is elected in one round of voting by plurality. The 80 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by closed list proportional representation in 18 multi-member constituencies based on the departments. The 45 members of the Senate are elected from a single national constituency using closed list proportional representation.

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Date	Sample size	ANR-PC	GANAR	Other/None	Don't know/ No answer	Margin of error
ABC Color	6 April 2018	Unknown	51.9%	35.8%	–	–	–
La República	March 2018	1,300	42.2%	46.3%	3.5%	8.0%	–

Results

Senate

Elected Senators

Name	Party	Alliance
Agustín Amado Florentín Cabral	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Antonio Carlos Barrios Fernández	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Blanca Margarita Ovelar de Duarte	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Blas Antonio Llano Ramos	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Blas Lanzoni Achinelli	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Carlos Alberto Filizzola Pallarés	Party for a Country of Solidarity	Guasú Front
Carlos Leopoldo Gómez Zelada Brugada	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Derlis Ariel Alejandro Osorio Nunes	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Desirée Graciela Masi Jara	Democratic Progressive Party	Democratic Progressive Party
Dionisio Oswaldo Amarilla Guirlland	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Enrique Fausto Bacchetta Chiriani	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Enrique Salyn Concepción Buzarquis Cáceres	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Ernesto Javier Zacarías Irún	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Esperanza Martínez de Portillo	Party of Citizen Participation	Guasú Front
Fernando Alberto Silva Facetti	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez	Independent	Guasú Front
Fidel Santiago Zavala Serrati	Beloved Fatherland Party	Beloved Fatherland Party
Georgia María Arrúa de Dolinsky	Beloved Fatherland Party	Beloved Fatherland Party
Gilberto Antonio Apuril Santiviago	Making Party	Making Party
Hermelinda Alvarenga de Ortega	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Jorge Antonio Oviedo Matto	National Union of Ethical Citizens	National Union of Ethical Citizens
Jorge Osvaldo Querey Rojas	Party for a Country of Solidarity	Guasú Front
José Gregorio Ledesma Narváez	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Juan Bartolomé Ramírez Brizuela	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Juan Carlos Román Galaverna Delvalle	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Juan Darío Monges Espínola	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Juan Eudes Afara Maciel	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Lilian Graciela Samaniego González	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Luis Alberto Castiglioni Soria	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
María Eugenia Beatriz Bajac de Penner	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Óscar Alberto González Daher	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Óscar Hugo Richer Florentín	Popular Socialist Convergence Party	Guasú Front
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Óscar Rubén Salomón Fernández	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Paraguayo Antonio Cubas Colomés	National Crusade Movement	National Crusade Movement
Patrick Paul Kemper Thiede	Making Party	Making Party
Pedro Arthuro Santa Cruz Insaurralde	Democratic Progressive Party	Democratic Progressive Party
Sergio Daniel Godoy Codas	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Silvio Adalberto Ovelar Benítez	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Sixto Pereira Galeano	Tekojoja People's Party	Guasú Front
Stephan Rasmussen González	Beloved Fatherland Party	Beloved Fatherland Party
Víctor Alcides Bogado González	Colorado Party	Colorado Party
Víctor Ríos Ojeda	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party
Zulma Ramona Gómez Cáceres	Authentic Radical Liberal Party	Authentic Radical Liberal Party

Source: ABC Color

Departmental Governors

Department	Elected governor	Party		Votes	%
Concepción	Edgar Idalino López Ruíz		Liberal	43.881	49.78
San Pedro	Carlos Alcibiades Giménez Díaz		Colorado	56,493	39.66
Cordillera	Hugo Alberto Fleitas Ovelar		Liberal	58,998	45.10
Guairá	Juan Carlos Vera Báez		Colorado	50,115	58.26
20px Caaguazú	Alejo Rios Medina		GANAR	88,651	46.17
Caazapá	Pedro Alejandro Díaz Verón		Colorado	30.638	49.32
Itapúa	Juan Alberto Schmalko Palacios		Colorado	87,441	44.38
20px Misiones	Carlos María Arrechea Ortiz		Colorado	29,364	48.28
Paraguarí	Juan Carlos Baruja Fernandez		Colorado	49,416	46.10
20px Alto Paraná	Roberto Luis González Vaesken		Colorado	104,539	37.47
20px Central	Hugo Javier González Alegre		Colorado	314,314	43.99
20px Ñeembucú	Luis Federico Benitez Cuevas		Colorado	20,881	47.89
Amambay	Ronald Enrique Acevedo Quevedo		Liberal	31,119	47.95
20px Canindeyú	César Ramírez Caje		Colorado	36,516	53.16
20px Presidente Hayes	Rubén Antonio Roussillon Blaires		Colorado	13,710	32.37
20px Alto Paraguay	José Domingo Adorno Mazacotte		Colorado	3,910	50.16
20px Boquerón	Dario Rafael Medina Velázquez		Colorado	9,051	49.40