Cuban general election, 1924

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Cuban general election, 1924
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Nominee Gerardo Machado Mario García Menocal
Party Liberal Conservative
Popular vote200,840134,154
President before election

Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso
Popular Party

Elected President

Gerardo Machado
Liberal Party of Cuba

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General elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1924. [1] Gerardo Machado won the presidential election running under the Liberal-Popular Coalition banner, whilst the coalition also emerged as the largest faction in the House of Representatives, winning 31 of the 53 seats. Following the elections, which were deemed to be fraudulent, Machado established a dictatorship which lasted until he was overthrown in 1933. [2]

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.

Gerardo Machado President of Cuba

Gerardo Machado y Morales was a general of the Cuban War of Independence and President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933.

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

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Gerardo Machado Liberal-Popular Coalition200,840
Mario Gómez Menocal 134,154
Invalid/blank votes-
Total
Source: Nohlen

Senate

PartyVotes%Seats
Liberal Party 7
Cuban Popular Party 4
National Conservative Party 1
Invalid/blank votes--
Total12
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

PartyVotes%Seats
Liberal-Popular Coalition31
National Conservative Party 22
Invalid/blank votes--
Total53
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, p195
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