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1956 Salvadoran presidential election

1956 elections in El Salvador


Summary

1956 elections in El Salvador

FieldValue
election_name1956 Salvadoran presidential election
countryEl Salvador
typePresidential
ongoingno
previous_election1950 Salvadoran general election
previous_year1950
next_election1962 Salvadoran presidential election
next_year1962
election_date4 March 1956
image1[[File:José María Lemus.jpg150x150px]]
nominee1José María Lemus
party1Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification
popular_vote1677,748
percentage195.20%
image23x4.svg
nominee2Rafael Carranza Anaya
party2PCA
popular_vote222,659
percentage23.18%
image3
nominee3Enrique Magaña Menénendez
party3Renovating Action Party
popular_vote311,524
percentage31.62%
titlePresident
before_electionÓscar Osorio
before_partyDPNU
after_electionJosé María Lemus
after_partyDPNU

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 1956. The result was a victory for José María Lemus of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, who received 95.2% of the vote.

The Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidacies of José Alberto Funes (Democratic Institutional Party), Roberto Edmundo Cannessa (National Action Party) and José Alvaro Díaz (Nationalist Democratic Party). It also forbade Rafael Carranza Anaya (Authentic Constitutional Party) and Enrique Magaña Menéndez (Renovating Action Party) from withdrawing their candidacies; nevertheless, the latter two boycotted the elections.

Results

References

Bibliography

  • Benítez Manaut, Raúl. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990).
  • Kantor, Harry. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. 1969.
  • McDonald, Ronald H. "Electoral behavior and political development in El Salvador." Journal of politics 31, 2:397-419 (May 1969). 1969.
  • Parker, Franklin D. The Central American republics. Westport: Greenwood Press. Reprint of 1971 edition. 1981.
  • Political Handbook of the world, 1956. New York, 1957.
  • Ruddle, Kenneth. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA. 1972.
  • Webre, Stephen. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979.
  • White, Alastair. El Salvador. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1973.
  • Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997.

References

  1. [[Dieter Nohlen]] (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 {{ISBN. 978-0-19-928357-6
  2. Nohlen, p288
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