Cuban general election, 1940

Last updated March 22, 2019

General elections were held in Cuba on 14 July 1940.^[1] Fulgencio Batista won the presidential election running under the People's Socialist Coalition banner, whilst the Partido Auténtico emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 73.4%.^[2]

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.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and the U.S.-backed authoritarian ruler from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution. Batista initially rose to power as part of the 1933 Revolt of the Sergeants, which overthrew the provisional government of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada. He then appointed himself chief of the armed forces, with the rank of colonel, and effectively controlled the five-member "pentarchy" that functioned as the collective head of state. He maintained this control through a string of puppet presidents until 1940, when he was himself elected President of Cuba on a populist platform. He then instated the 1940 Constitution of Cuba and served until 1944. After finishing his term he lived in Florida, returning to Cuba to run for president in 1952. Facing certain electoral defeat, he led a military coup against President Carlos Prío Socarrás that preempted the election.

The Cuban Revolutionary Party – Authentic, commonly named Authentic Party, was a political party in Cuba most active between 1933 and 1952. Although the Partido Auténtico had significant influence, it eventually became unpopular and, despite significant reforms, Fulgencio Batista returned to power.

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Fulgencio Batista	Democratic Socialist Coalition¹	805,125	56.7%
Ramón Grau San Martín	Opposition Front²	573,576	40.3%
Reynaldo Márquez	National Agrarian Party
Invalid/blank votes			-
Total		1,421,563	100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The Democratic Socialist Coalition (also known as the People's Socialist Coalition) was an alliance of the Communist Revolutionary Union, Progressive Action, the Democratic National Association, the Liberal Party and the Republican Democratic Party.

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.

² The Opposition Front was an alliance of the ABC, the Partido Auténtico and Republican Action.

Senate

Party	%	Seats	+/-
Democratic Socialist Coalition^[3]		22	New
Opposition Front		14	New
Invalid/blank votes	-	-	-
Total		36	0
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

Party	%	Seats	+/-
Partido Auténtico		34	New
Liberal Party		23	-11
Republican Democratic Party		22	New
Nationalist Union		21	-9
Democratic National Association		18	-52
Republican Action		16	-9
ABC		12	New
Communist Revolutionary Union		10	New
Others		6	-
Invalid/blank votes	-	-	-
Total		162	0
Source: Nohlen

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References

↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
↑ Nohlen, p204
↑ http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/resources/featured-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/cuba/elections-and-events-19351951.html

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[N1-1] Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

[2] Nohlen, p204

[3] ttp://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/resources/featured-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/cuba/elections-and-events-19351951.html

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