1938 Chilean presidential election

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1938 Chilean presidential election
Flag of Chile.svg
  1932 25 October 1938 1942  
Turnout88.40%
  Pedro Aguirre Cerda es elegido Presidente-2.JPG GustavoRossSantaMaria.jpg
Candidate Pedro Aguirre Cerda Gustavo Ross  [ es ]
Party Radical Liberal
Alliance Popular Front Right-wing
Popular vote222,720218,609
Percentage50.45%49.52%

President before election

Arturo Alessandri
Liberal

Elected President

Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Radical

Presidential elections were held in Chile on 25 October 1938. [1] The result was a narrow victory for Pedro Aguirre Cerda of the Radical Party, [2] who received 50.5% [1] (or 50.3% [2] ) of the vote.

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Electoral system

The election was held using the absolute majority system, under which a candidate had to receive over 50% of the popular vote to be elected. If no candidate received over 50% of the vote, both houses of the National Congress would come together to vote on the two candidates that received the most votes. [3]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Pedro Aguirre Cerda Radical Party 222,72050.45
Gustavo Ross  [ es ] Liberal Party 218,60949.52
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Popular Freedom Alliance 1120.03
Total441,441100.00
Valid votes441,44199.11
Invalid/blank votes3,9700.89
Total votes445,411100.00
Registered voters/turnout503,87188.40
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. 1 2 Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN   978-0-19-928358-3
  2. 1 2 Drake, Paul (1991), Bethell, Leslie (ed.), "Chile, 1930 — 58" , The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America, vol. 8, Cambridge University Press, pp. 267–310, doi:10.1017/chol9780521266529.006, ISBN   978-0-521-26652-9
  3. Nohlen, p259