1925 Chilean presidential election

1925 Presidential election
	22 October 1925
	22 October 1925
President before election; Luis Barros Borgoño; Liberal Party	President ; Emiliano Figueroa; Liberal Democratic

Presidential elections were held in Chile on 22 October 1925.[1] They were the first direct elections in the country's history and the first to be held under the new 1925 constitution. The result was a victory for Emiliano Figueroa, who received 71% of the vote.[2]

Electoral system

The election was held using the absolute majority system, under which a candidate had to receive over 50% of the popular vote to be elected. If no candidate received over 50% of the vote, a joint session of the National Congress would vote on the two candidates that received the most votes.[3]

Campaign

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party,[4] Figueroa ran as an independent,[2] and was also supported by the Conservative Party, the Radical Party, the United Liberal Party, the Doctrinal Liberal Party, and Democrat Party, the Unionist Liberal Party and the Aliancista Liberal Democratic Party.[4]

Results

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Emiliano Figueroa	Independent	186,187	71.36
José Santos Salas	Social-Republican Union of the Wage Earners of Chile	74,091	28.40
Other candidates		617	0.24
Total		260,895	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		302,142	86.35
Source: Nohlen

References

Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
Nohlen, p285
Nohlen, p259
1925 Presidential Election Chilean Electoral Database

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[N1-1] Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3

[N2-2] Nohlen, p285

[3] Nohlen, p259

[DB-4] 1925 Presidential Election Chilean Electoral Database

Elections and referendums in Chile
Presidential elections	1826 1827 1829 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 1856 1861 1866 1871 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 1901 1906 1910 1915 1920 1925 1927 1931 1932 1938 1942 1946 1952 1958 1964 1970 1989 1993 1999–2000 2005–06 2009–10 2013 2017 2021
Parliamentary elections	1811 1822 1823 1824 1825 1827 1828 1829 1831 1834 1837 1840 1843 1846 1849 1852 1855 1858 1861 1864 1867 1870 1873 1876 1879 1882 1885 1888 1891 1894 1897 1900 1903 1906 1909 1912 1915 1918 1921 1924 1925 1930 1932 1937 1941 1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2021
Regional elections	2013 2017 2021
Municipal elections	1891 1894 1897 1900 1905 1910 1915 1920 1922 1925 1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1960 1963 1967 1971 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2021
Convention elections	2021
Referendums	1812 1817 1818 1925 1978 1980 1988 1989 2020 2022