1911 Salvadoran presidential election

1911 Salvadoran presidential election
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Candidate Manuel Enrique Araujo
Party Liberal
Running mate Onofre Durán Santillana
Popular vote 182,964
President before election

Fernando Figueroa
Liberal/Military

Elected President

Manuel Enrique Araujo
Liberal

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1911. Manuel Enrique Araujo was elected president through a popular election,[1] receiving 182,964 votes.[2] Araujo defeated General Luis Alonso Barahona[3] and Doctor Esteban Castro.[4] All men were eligible to vote in the election.[5]

President Fernando Figueroa selected Araujo as his successor and heavily rigged the election in his favor. Historian Alastair White wrote that "opponents were allowed to participate but not allowed to win".[6] Thomas Dabney, the United States interim chargé d'affaires to El Salvador, wrote that "popular suffrage is but a fiction [...] That the official candidate will be elected in 1911, is according to general opinion, a foregone conclusion".[7] The Diario Oficial newspaper reported that the 182,964 votes in favor Araujo "genuinely representated" ("genuinamente representado") the will of the people.[2]

  1. ^ Casa Presidencial.
  2. ^ a b Diario Oficial 1911, p. 105.
  3. ^ Trabanino.
  4. ^ Vidal 1969, p. 357.
  5. ^ Nohlen 2005, p. 270.
  6. ^ White 1973, p. 90.
  7. ^ Ching 1997, p. 221.