List of female Chilean presidential candidates

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.

• 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.

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

• Sara Larraín and Gladys Marín became the first female candidates to contest the first round of a presidential election in 1999–2000.^[1] Marín also became the first Communist party presidential candidate in Chile since 1932.^[1]

21st century

• Michelle Bachelet became the first female Socialist party presidential candidate in Chile, the first woman to win the first round of a presidential election, and the country's first female president, elected in the 2005–06 Chilean general election.^[2] In the 2013 Chilean general election, she became the first person to be re-elected president since Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in 1952.^[3]
• Labor Minister Evelyn Matthei became the first female conservative presidential candidate in Chile^[4] and advanced to the runuoff against Bachelet in the 2013 election. This marked the first time two women faced each other in a runoff in Chilean history.^[5]
• Activist Roxana Miranda ran as the candidate for the left-wing Equality Party.^[6] She received 81,873 votes (1.24%), finishing in seventh out of nine candidates in the first round.^[7]
• Journalist Beatriz Sánchez became the first presidential candidate from the Broad Front party. She received 1,338,037 votes (20.27%), finishing third out of eight candidates in the first round.^[8]
• Senator Carolina Goic became the first female presidential candidate from the Christian Democratic Party. She received 387,784 votes (5.88%), finishing fifth out of eight candidates in the first round.^[8]
• Senator Yasna Provoste ran as the presidential candidate for the centre-left New Social Pact coalition in the 2021 general election, after winning the non-observed SERVEL primary. She received 815,563 votes (11.60%), finishing fifth out of seven candidates in the first round.^[9]
• Paula Narváez ran as the Socialist Party's presidential candidate in the primary election held by New Social Pact coalition for the 2021 general election. She was defeated by Christian Democrat Senator Yasna Provoste.^[10]

Presidential candidates

General election candidates by popular vote

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

• Women in Chile
• President of Chile
• Presidents of Chile timeline
• List of female cabinet ministers of Chile