For the 2006 legislative and municipal elections in the Dominican Republic, 32 senators (one for each one of the country’s 31 provinces plus the National District), 178 representatives to the lower house (elected proportionally), and 151 mayors with their respective city councils (for a total of 934 city council members), were to be elected. The incumbent Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) achieved a major victory at the legislative level, which now gives it control over the Senate and the House for the next four years, while the opposition parties (represented in the Grand National Alliance) lost important enclaves. The PLD also won a majority of the country’s municipalities.