Cuban general election, 1954

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Cuban general election, 1954

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Nominee Fulgencio Batista Ramón Grau
Party Progressive Action Auténtico
Popular vote 1,451,753 188,209
President before election

Carlos Prío Socarrás
Authentic Party

Elected President

Fulgencio Batista
Progressive Action Party

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General elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1954. [1] Fulgencio Batista won the presidential election running under the National Progressive Coalition banner, whilst the main opposition candidate, Ramón Grau San Martín, withdrew his candidacy before election day. [2] Progressive Action Party emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 60 of the 130 seats. Voter turnout was 52.4%. [3]

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.

Fulgencio Batista military leader of Cuba

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 Progressive Action Party was a Cuban political party led by Fulgencio Batista. The party was founded in 1949, after the 1948 general elections, under the name of United Action Party. In 1952, certain to lose the election, Batista made a coup d'etat by seizing the Presidency.

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Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Fulgencio Batista National Progressive Coalition¹1,451,753
Ramón Grau San Martín Partido Auténtico 188,209
Invalid/blank votes-
Total1,451,753100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The National Progressive Coalition was an alliance of Progressive Action Party, the Radical Union, the Republican Democratic Party and the Liberal 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.

Senate

PartyVotes%Seats+/-
National Progressive Coalition36New
Partido Auténtico 18-
Invalid/blank votes---
Total540
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

PartyVotes%Seats+/-
Progressive Action Party 60+56
Liberal Party 24+16
Partido Auténtico 16-12
Democratic Party 15+9
Radical Union 15New
Invalid/blank votes---
Total130+64
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, p217
  3. ↑ Nohlen, p204
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