1946 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election

Constituent Assembly elections were held in Venezuela on 27 October 1946,[1] following a coup the year before which launched El Trienio Adeco.

[2] They were the first free national elections in the country's history.

Democratic Action, which had led the provisional government formed after the coup, won a decisive victory with 137 of the 160 seats in the Assembly.

Voter turnout was 86.6%.

[3] The assembly drafted a constitution ahead of the country's first free regular elections a year later.