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Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 6 August 1923. The Congress of the Republic elected the president in Lisbon instead of the Portuguese people. However the new president Manuel Teixeira Gomes was elected In absentia, meaning that he wasn't present during the election. [1]
There were a total of five candidates. Manuel Teixeira Gomes won the election against his opponents and became the next President of the Republic.
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | Third round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Manuel Teixeira Gomes | Democratic Party | 108 | 57.75 | 117 | 58.50 | 121 | 62.37 | |
| Bernardino Machado | Nationalist Republican Party | 73 | 39.04 | 71 | 35.50 | 5 | 2.58 | |
| Duarte Leite | Republican Liberal Party | 3 | 1.60 | 1 | 0.50 | |||
| Augusto Vieira Soares | Democratic Party | 1 | 0.53 | 2 | 1.00 | |||
| Sebastião de Magalhães Lima | Democratic Party | 1 | 0.53 | |||||
| Blank votes | 1 | 0.53 | 9 | 4.50 | 68 | 35.05 | ||
| Total | 187 | 100.00 | 200 | 100.00 | 194 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: CPHRC [1] | ||||||||
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