Cuban general election, 1916

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Cuban general election, 1916
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Nominee Mario García Menocal Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
Party Conservative Liberal
President before election

Mario García Menocal
Conservative Party of Cuba

Elected President

Mario García Menocal
Conservative Party of Cuba

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General elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1916. [1] Mario García Menocal was re-elected in the presidential election, [2] whilst the National Conservative Party and the Liberal Party both won 27 seats in the House of Representatives.

Cuba Country in the Caribbean

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet. It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The area of the Republic of Cuba is 110,860 square kilometres (42,800 sq mi). The island of Cuba is the largest island in Cuba and in the Caribbean, with an area of 105,006 square kilometres (40,543 sq mi), and the second-most populous after Hispaniola, with over 11 million inhabitants.

Mario García Menocal President of Cuba

Aurelio Mario Gabriel Francisco García Menocal y Deop was the 3rd President of Cuba, serving from 1913 to 1921. His terms as president saw Cuba's participation in World War I.

The Autonomist Liberal Party, renamed usually semplified in Liberal Party in 1898, was one of major parties from 1910 until the Cuban Revolution the late 1950s, when it was exiled.

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Results

Senate

PartyVotes%Seats
National Conservative Party 8
Liberal Party 4
Invalid/blank votes--
Total12
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

PartyVotes%Seats
National Conservative Party 27
Liberal Party 27
Unionist Liberal Party 4
Provincial Liberal Party 2
Invalid/blank votes--
Total60
Source: Nohlen

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References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 ISBN   978-0-19-928357-6
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p215
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