1974 Costa Rican general election

1974 Costa Rican general election
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Presidential election
Turnout79.92% (Decrease 3.42pp)
 
Nominee Daniel Oduber Fernando Trejos Escalante [es]
Party PLN UN
Popular vote 294,609 206,149
Percentage 43.44% 30.40%
 
Nominee Jorge González Martén [es] Rodrigo Carazo Odio
Party PNI PRD
Popular vote 73,788 61,820
Percentage 10.88% 9.12%
Results by canton
President before election

José Figueres
PLN

Elected President

Daniel Oduber
PLN

Legislative election
All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly
29 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PLN Daniel Oduber Quirós 40.88 27 −5
UN Fernando Trejos Escalante 24.71 16 −6
PNI Jorge González Martén 9.96 6 New
PRD Rodrigo Carazo Odio 7.68 3 New
PRN Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier 4.88 1 New
PASO Manuel Mora Valverde 4.41 2 0
Democratic Gerardo Villalobos Garita 2.13 1 New
PUAC Juan Guillermo Brenes Castillo 1.21 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by province
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 3 February 1974.[1] Daniel Oduber Quirós of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 80%.[2]

The Left was theoretically outlawed as the Constitution didn't allow the existence of Marxist parties, but the prohibition was not endorsed in practice by that time and even was lifted with a Constitutional reform for the next election.[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p155 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ^ Nohlen, p157
  3. ^ Hernández Naranjo, Gerardo. "Reseña de las elecciones presidenciales de 1974" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)