Democratic Republican Union
The Democratic Republican Union is a Venezuelan political party founded in 1945.
History
When the party appeared on course to win the 1952 election for a constituent assembly, then-dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez suspended the election. The party joined in the 1958 Puntofijo Pact, and its candidate in that year's presidential election, Wolfgang Larrazábal, was the runner-up. The party resigned from the Puntofijo Pact in 1962 in protest of the decision to exclude Cuba from the Organization of American States, which ended its time as a dominant political party. Its candidate Jóvito Villalba won 19% of the vote in the 1963 election, but only 3% in the 1973 election.Presidential candidates supported
Elections where the URD backed the winning candidate shown in bold.- 1952 election: Jóvito Villalba
- 1958 election: Wolfgang Larrazábal
- 1963 election: Jóvito Villalba
- 1968 election: Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas
- 1973 election: Jóvito Villalba
- 1978 election: Luis Herrera Campins
- 1983 election: Jaime Lusinchi
- 1988 election: Ismenia Villalba
- 1993 election: Rafael Caldera
- 1998 election: Luis Alfaro Ucero
- 2000 election:
- 2006 election: Manuel Rosales