RES PVBLICA ROMANASenatus Populusque Romanus
691 AUC
The Republic / 63 BCE

Assemblies

November · 691 AUC

COMITIA · CONCILIVM PLEBIS

Assemblies & election returns

The identity of the electing body matters. These are historical returns, not modern popular-vote totals or a complete list of all elections.

Centuriate assemblyComitia Centuriata

Citizens organised in centuries. Elected consuls and praetors; also exercised legislative and judicial functions. A century was a voting unit, not a modern constituency of equal population.

Tribal assembly of the peopleComitia Tributa

Citizens organised in tribes. Elected quaestors and curule aediles, and voted on measures under a competent presiding magistrate.

Assembly of the plebsConcilium Plebis

Plebeians organised in tribes. Elected tribunes and plebeian aediles and passed plebiscites. It was not the lower house of a bicameral parliament.

Not every meeting was a ballotOther civic gatherings

A contio heard addresses without taking a binding vote. The curiate assembly had distinct formal functions. Priestly elections could use seventeen tribes selected by lot; see the individual return.

The surviving narrative preserves order and relative margins—not a complete century-by-century table.

Election held in 64 BCE

Consuls for 63 BCE

Comitia Centuriata · 193 voting units traditionally attested

RETROSPECTIVE ANNUAL FILE

The surviving narrative preserves order and relative margins—not a complete century-by-century table.

Surviving return for Consuls for 63 BCE
NameRecorded outcomeVoting evidence
Marcus Tullius CiceroElected firstAll centuries
Gaius Antonius HybridaElected secondNarrowly ahead of Catiline
Lucius Sergius CatilinaNot electedA few centuries behind Antonius
P. Sulpicius GalbaNot electedExact return not extant
L. Cassius LonginusNot electedExact return not extant
Q. CornificiusNot electedExact return not extant
C. Licinius SacerdosNot electedExact return not extant

Election dates and office terms are different. The ordinary consuls of 63 BCE were elected in 64 BCE. Where an annual register is all that survives in this index, no vote totals or competitive election are inferred.