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1907 Salvadoran presidential election

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1907 Salvadoran presidential election

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Presidential election
 
Candidate Fernando Figueroa Luis Alonso Barahona
Party Liberal/Military Independent/Military
Popular vote 152,053 222
Percentage 99.76% 0.15%

Results by department

President before election

Pedro José Escalón
Conservative/Military

Elected President

Fernando Figueroa
Liberal/Military

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 13 January 1907.[1] General Fernando Figueroa was elected with 99.76 percent of the vote. His closest rival Luis Alonso Barahona received 222 votes to Figueroa's 152,053.

Campaign

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Prior to the 1907 presidential election, President Pedro José Escalón and his allies hand-picked Divisional General Fernando Figueroa to be his successor as president of El Salvador.[2] All men were eligible to vote in the election.[3]

Results

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President

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CandidatePartyVotes%
Fernando FigueroaLiberal/Military152,05399.76
Luis Alonso BarahonaIndependent/Military2220.15
Horacio VillavicencioIndependent/Military390.03
Rafael Guirola DukeIndependent160.01
Camilo ArévaloIndependent110.01
Carlos MeléndezLiberal80.01
Potenciano EscalónIndependent/Military60.00
Baltasar EstupiniánIndependent40.00
Rafael Antonio GutiérrezLiberal/Military10.00
Prudencio AlfaroLiberal10.00
Other candidates580.04
Total152,419100.00
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354[4]

Results by department

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The following table displays the number of votes each presidential candidate received from each of the country's 14 departments. The candidate with the most votes in a department is highlighted in gray.

Department Figueroa Barahona Villavicencio Guirola Arévalo Meléndez Escalón Estupinián Gutiérrez Alfaro Others
Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes
Ahuachapán 9,902 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cabañas 5,364 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chalatenango 9,778 142 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0
Cuscatlán 9,890 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
La Libertad 11,797 13 3 16 6 1 4 0 0 0 8
La Paz 14,299 11 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
La Unión 6,655 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Morazán 9,457 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
San Miguel 11,467 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
San Salvador 18,851 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Santa Ana 13,947 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3
San Vicente 6,778 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sonsonate 11,028 26 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 3
Usulután 12,840 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 152,053 222 39 16 11 8 6 4 1 1 58
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354[4]

Vice president

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CandidatePartyVotes%
Manuel Enrique AraujoLiberal146,29895.47
José Miguel BatrésIndependent/Military6,6894.36
Jorge MeléndezLiberal1120.07
Norberto MoránIndependent240.02
José María EstupiniánIndependent/Military110.01
Other candidates1120.07
Total153,246100.00
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354[4]

Results by department

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The following table displays the number of votes each vice presidential candidate received from each of the country's 14 departments. The candidate with the most votes in a department is highlighted in gray.

Department Araujo Batrés Meléndez Morán Estupinián Others
Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes Votes
Ahuachapán 9,901 0 0 0 0 7
Cabañas 5,365 0 0 0 0 1
Chalatenango 9,769 0 112 0 0 13
Cuscatlán 10,885 0 0 0 0 26
La Libertad 11,790 0 0 0 0 1
La Paz 14,298 0 0 0 11 26
La Unión 6,617 0 0 0 0 3
Morazán 9,457 0 0 0 0 0
San Miguel 11,469 0 0 0 0 3
San Salvador 18,855 0 0 0 0 4
Santa Ana 13,926 0 0 0 0 18
San Vicente 6,770 0 0 23 0 0
Sonsonate 4,354 6,689 0 1 0 10
Usulután 12,842 0 0 0 0 0
Total 146,298 6,689 112 24 11 112
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354[4]

References

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Citations

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Bibliography

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  • Ching, Erik K. (1997). From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and Authoritarianism in El Salvador, 1840–1940. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara. OCLC 39326756. ProQuest 304330235. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  • "Cuadro Demonstrativo de los Votos Emitidos para Presidente y Vice Presidente de la República en el Período de 1907 a 1911" [Demonstrative Table of the Votes Cast for President and Vice President of the Republic for the Period of 1907 to 1911] (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Vol. 62, no. 48. 26 February 1907. p. 354. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  • "Elections and Events 1900–1934". University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  • Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 270–299. ISBN 9780191557934. OCLC 58051010. Retrieved 20 October 2024.