1993 Paraguayan general election

General elections were held in Paraguay on 9 May 1993. They featured the first free presidential elections in the country's 182-year history,and the first with no military candidates since 1928. They were also the first regular elections since the adoption of a new constitution the previous summer. The presidential election was the first regular presidential election since the overthrow of longtime leader Alfredo Stroessner in 1989. The 1989 coup's leader, Andrés Rodríguez, became provisional president before winning a special election for the remainder of Stroessner's eighth term.

Rodríguez had promised not to run for a full term, and was prevented from doing so by the new constitution, which limited the president to a single five-year term. The term limit applied even if a president had only served a partial term.

Juan Carlos Wasmosy of the Colorado Party won the presidential election with 41.8 percent of the vote. He took office on 15 August, becoming the first civilian to hold the post in 39 years.

The Colorado Party remained the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, but lost the absolute majority it had held since 1963. The opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party and National Encounter Party together held a majority of the seats in both chambers, later supplemented by the Colorado Reconciliation Movement, which broke away from the Colorado Party. Voter turnout was 69% in the presidential and Senate elections and 68% in the Chamber elections.