1911 Salvadoran presidential election

1911 Salvadoran presidential election

8–10 January 1911

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, receiving 182,964 votes. Araujo defeated General Luis Alonso Barahona and Doctor Esteban Castro. All men were eligible to vote in the election.

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". 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". The Diario Oficial newspaper reported that the 182,964 votes in favor Araujo "genuinely representated" ("genuinamente representado") the will of the people.

Results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Manuel Enrique Araujo	Liberal	182,964
	Luis Alonso Barahona	Military/Independent
	Esteban Castro	Independent
Total
Source: Diario Oficial 1911, p. 105

References

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Further reading

• "Elections and Events 1900–1934". University of California, San Diego. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.