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1916 Guatemalan presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Guatemala
type	presidential
previous_election	1910 Guatemalan presidential election
previous_year	1910
next_election	April 1920 Guatemalan presidential election
next_year	April 1920
election_date	17 January 1916
image1	HomagetoaPatriotManuelEstradaCabrera crop.jpg
nominee1	Manuel Estrada Cabrera
popular_vote1	415,052
percentage1	100%
party1	Liberal Party (Guatemala)
title	President
before_election	Manuel Estrada Cabrera
before_party	Liberal Party (Guatemala)
posttitle	President-elect
after_election	Manuel Estrada Cabrera
after_party	Liberal Party (Guatemala)

Presidential elections were held in Guatemala on 17 January 1916. For the second successive election, Manuel Estrada Cabrera was re-elected unopposed. Despite there only being one candidate, voters were rounded up by the military and taken to polling stations, where they could only vote for Cabrera. Cabrera assumed the presidency on 15 March 1911.

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References

Bibliography

Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
González Davison, Fernando. El régimen Liberal en Guatemala (1871–1944). Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 1987.
Dosal, Paul J. Power in transition: the rise of Guatemala's industrial oligarchy, 1871–1994. Westport: Praeger. 1995.
Holden, Robert H. Armies without nations: public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821–1960. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Taracena Arriola, Arturo. "Liberalismo y poder político en Centroamérica (1870–1929).” Historia general de Centroamérica . 1994. San José: FLACSO. Volume 4.
Calvert, Peter. Guatemala : a nation in turmoil. Boulder: Westview Press. 1985.
Rendón, Catherine. "El gobierno de Manuel Estrada Cabrera". Historia general de Guatemala. 1993–1999. Guatemala: Asociación de Amigos del País, Fundación para la Cultura y el Desarrollo. Volume 5. 1996.

References

Calvert, Peter (1985) ''Guatemala : a nation in turmoil'' Boulder: Westview Pres p69
Information Annual, 1916: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events. 1917, p297
Munro, Dana G (1967) ''The five republics of Central America'' New York: Russell & Russell, pp. 55–56
[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015065600150&view=1up&seq=311 Information Annual, 1916]

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