1915 Chilean presidential election

1915 Chilean presidential election
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Turnout81.28%[1] Increase 28 pp
 
Candidate Juan Luis Sanfuentes Javier Ángel Figueroa
Party Liberal Democratic Liberal
Alliance Coalition Liberal Alliance
Electoral vote 174 173
Congress vote 77 41
President before election

Ramón Barros Luco
Liberal

Elected President

Juan Luis Sanfuentes
Liberal Democratic

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Presidential elections were held in Chile in 1915.[2] They were a bitter contest between Juan Luis Sanfuentes – a Coalition candidate of the Liberal Party and Conservative Party – and Javier Ángel Figueroa – supported by the Liberal Alliance parties. Sanfuentes beat Figueroa by a single vote in the electoral vote, with numerous allegations of fraud and electoral intervention. Due to the controversy, the National Congress made a contingent vote, which Sanfuentes won by 77 votes to 41.[3][2]

  1. ^ Ricardo Nazer, Jaime. "Electores, sufragio y democracia en Chile: una mirada histórica" (PDF). memoriachilena.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b Elección Presidencial 1915 Chilean Elections Database
  3. ^ "El nuevo presidente de Chile". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 27 July 1915. Retrieved 9 February 2014.