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Cámara de Representantes · 1985–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1985 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
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What it is

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Diario de Sesiones.

Uruguay · 1985 · 71 sessions · 15,251 speech turnsUruguay · 1986 · 63 sessions · 13,585 speech turnsUruguay · 1987 · 63 sessions · 12,626 speech turnsUruguay · 1988 · 57 sessions · 9,042 speech turnsUruguay · 1989 · 47 sessions · 7,083 speech turnsUruguay · 1990 · 76 sessions · 18,687 speech turnsUruguay · 1991 · 84 sessions · 16,824 speech turnsUruguay · 1992 · 74 sessions · 12,940 speech turnsUruguay · 1993 · 79 sessions · 11,648 speech turnsUruguay · 1994 · 67 sessions · 6,534 speech turnsUruguay · 1995 · 72 sessions · 12,770 speech turnsUruguay · 1996 · 72 sessions · 9,688 speech turnsUruguay · 1997 · 97 sessions · 11,621 speech turnsUruguay · 1998 · 82 sessions · 9,222 speech turnsUruguay · 1999 · 63 sessions · 7,573 speech turnsUruguay · 2000 · 60 sessions · 13,170 speech turnsUruguay · 2001 · 90 sessions · 10,629 speech turnsUruguay · 2002 · 88 sessions · 14,188 speech turnsUruguay · 2003 · 87 sessions · 11,658 speech turnsUruguay · 2004 · 55 sessions · 5,861 speech turnsUruguay · 2005 · 85 sessions · 15,499 speech turnsUruguay · 2006 · 77 sessions · 11,492 speech turnsUruguay · 2007 · 76 sessions · 11,332 speech turnsUruguay · 2008 · 89 sessions · 12,883 speech turnsUruguay · 2009 · 62 sessions · 5,952 speech turnsUruguay · 2010 · 69 sessions · 10,249 speech turnsUruguay · 2011 · 66 sessions · 10,425 speech turnsUruguay · 2012 · 79 sessions · 10,726 speech turnsUruguay · 2013 · 68 sessions · 7,667 speech turnsUruguay · 2014 · 41 sessions · 3,351 speech turnsUruguay · 2015 · 59 sessions · 9,423 speech turnsUruguay · 2016 · 72 sessions · 7,953 speech turnsUruguay · 2017 · 62 sessions · 8,334 speech turnsUruguay · 2018 · 70 sessions · 9,281 speech turnsUruguay · 2019 · 43 sessions · 4,434 speech turnsUruguay · 2020 · 66 sessions · 10,260 speech turnsUruguay · 2021 · 60 sessions · 8,075 speech turnsUruguay · 2022 · 57 sessions · 8,315 speech turnsUruguay · 2023 · 66 sessions · 11,343 speech turnsUruguay · 2024 · 38 sessions · 3,967 speech turnsUruguay · 2025 · 61 sessions · 9,723 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 1985 to 2025.
Table
Uruguay, Cámara de Representantes: from 1985 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
19857115,251
19866313,585
19876312,626
1988579,042
1989477,083
19907618,687
19918416,824
19927412,940
19937911,648
1994676,534
19957212,770
1996729,688
19979711,621
1998829,222
1999637,573
20006013,170
20019010,629
20028814,188
20038711,658
2004555,861
20058515,499
20067711,492
20077611,332
20088912,883
2009625,952
20106910,249
20116610,425
20127910,726
2013687,667
2014413,351
2015599,423
2016727,953
2017628,334
2018709,281
2019434,434
20206610,260
2021608,075
2022578,315
20236611,343
2024383,967
2025619,723

Derived edition for research: in case of any discrepancy, your chamber's Record prevails.

Where it comes from

Diarios de Sesiones de la Cámara de Representantes, Parlamento del Uruguay. https://www.parlamento.gub.uy/. Legislatures XLII-L (1985-2025). PDF. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 2,813 sessions, in 41 of 41 years.With no speech turns, 4.
  • 424,097 rows; 421,284 are speech turns.
  • In 96.41% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 0.81% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 97.68%.

View how it is calculated

Women's voice, in words

Words of women deputies for every hundred words of deputies of known sex, by decade. It measures voice, not seats.

Sex is assigned by us, with more error for women than for men. We assign it correctly for 97.43% of women and for 99.54% of men, measured together across eleven rosters—the lists of deputies—reviewed by hand. This is one of them.
View speech turns and women speakers
Uruguay · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1985–890.25%31,342 / 12,733,5940.40%209 / 52,6144.71%9 / 191
1990–992.45%697,967 / 28,488,3023.34%3,699 / 110,69110.61%40 / 377
2000–0910.03%3,319,670 / 33,087,02711.38%12,563 / 110,41215.89%68 / 428
2010–1919.72%6,145,822 / 31,172,58918.24%14,663 / 80,39627.03%130 / 481
2020–2523.41%4,441,241 / 18,967,90821.42%10,885 / 50,82636.56%170 / 465

The words of deputies of known sex, in that chamber and that decade. Those who cannot hold a seat, collective voices, and non-speech rows are not included.

Before using it

This corpus declares four limitations, each one measured. They are in the dataset's "Known limitations" document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The dataset

There are 17 files: the interventions; the roster; README, data dictionary, known limitations, and processing report, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; and, for software, corpus numbers, metadata, and linkage methods.

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Authorship: Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo; Gutiérrez Oria, Óscar. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/KI1AOC. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.

Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.

How to cite

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo; Gutiérrez Oria, Óscar, 2026, "ParlaIbero-UY: Parliamentary Speeches from Uruguay (1985-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KI1AOC, Harvard Dataverse, V2