Uruguay's left-wing opposition Broad Front candidate, Yamand Orsi, claimed victory in Sunday's presidential runoff, besting Alvaro Delgado of the conservative ruling National Party.

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United States and neighboring Argentina.

MONTEVIDEOOpposition candidate Yamandu Orsi secured victory in Uruguay’s presidential election, official results showed on Sunday, with 99 percent of votes tallied, in a second-round race that pollsters expected to be closely fought. Yamandu Orsi, the pre-election favorite by a few points, secured a small but comfortable margin of 49.81 percent of the vote to conservative […]

The left-wing Broad Front candidate emerged victorious in a tight race against governing-party candidate Alvaro Delgado.

The candidate of the conservative coalition that has governed for the past five years conceded defeat after a tight runoff, as Uruguay joined others around the world inrebuking the incumbent partyin a year of landmark elections.

Conservative Alvaro Delgado and left-wing rival Yamandu Orsi went head-to-head in the final round of Uruguay's election.

Uruguayans went to the polls Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to win an outright majority in last month's vote.

Leftist alliance hoping to come back to power after five years of right-wing President Luis Lacalle Pou.