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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 February 1948.[1] Otilio Ulate Blanco of the National Union Party won the presidential election with 55% of the vote, although the elections were deemed fraudulent by members of the governing National Republican Party (who supported Rafael Calderón). The results were annulled by Congress, leading to the six-week Costa Rican Civil War later that year.[2][3] Following the war, the results of the parliamentary election were also annulled.[1]
After the Civil War, José Figueres Ferrer became President at the head of a provisional junta that ruled for 18 months before handing power over to Ulate Blanco.[4][5]
- ^ a b Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p155 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
- ^ Nohlen, p178
- ^ Lehoucq, Fabrice Edouard (1991). "Class Conflict, Political Crisis and the Breakdown of Democratic Practices in Costa Rica: Reassessing the Origins of the 1948 Civil War*". Journal of Latin American Studies. 23 (1): 37–60. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00013353. ISSN 1469-767X. S2CID 144175806. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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