1920 Chilean presidential election
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354 members of the Electoral College 178 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 45.07% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential election results map. Yellow denotes states won by Alessandri and blue denotes states won by Barros. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes cast by each province. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in Chile on Friday, June 25, 1920. The Liberal Alliance candidate Arturo Alessandri defeated the National Union candidate Luis Barros Borgoño in the last Chilean presidential election to have been decided by an electoral college. The results were a turning point for Chilean history, setting the end of the succession of oligarch and 19th-century governments and the start of a new, modern one run by the middle class.
Incumbent president
The
The elections were held in a tense and violent political environment, where the
The election results were almost a tie and were heavily disputed by both sides: the two candidates claimed victory. In the following months, political violence arouse in the country, with the population fearing a revolution. As a response to uncertainty and fraud accusations, a Tribunal of Honour was created to perform a detailed examination of the results. This solution was agreed upon by both parties. On September 30, the verdict was given, giving 177 electoral votes to Alessandri and 176 to Barros Borgoño. The first was declared the winner of the election, and the results modified by the Tribunal were accepted by the Congress in October.
Nominations
Liberal Alliance nomination
1920 Liberal Alliance ticket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arturo Alessandri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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for President | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senator from Tarapacá (1915–1920) |
Liberal Alliance candidates:
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Atacama
Candidate | First round | Second round | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |
Arturo Alessandri | 407 | 34.32 | 801 | 65.66 |
Enrique Mac Iver | 294 | 24.79 | 50 | 4.10 |
Artemio Gutiérrez Vidal | 277 | 23.36 | ||
Eliodoro Yáñez | 102 | 8.60 | 261 | 21.39 |
José María Valderrama Lira | 42 | 3.54 | ||
Emilio Bello Codesido | 34 | 2.87 | ||
Armando Quezada Acharán | 30 | 2.53 | 108 | 8.85 |
Total | 1,186 | 100.00 | 1,220 | 100.00 |
National Union nomination
1920 National Union ticket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis Barros Borgoño | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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for President | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Worship and Colonization (1918–1919) |
Socialist Workers' Party
1920 Socialist Workers' Party ticket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis Emilio Recabarren Serrano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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for President | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy from Antofagasta, Taltal and Tocopilla (1906) |
Results
Candidate | Party | Popular vote | Electoral vote | |||
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Votes | % | Original | Modified | |||
Luis Barros Borgoño | National Union | 83,100 | 50.03 | 175 | 176 | |
Arturo Alessandri | Liberal Alliance | 82,083 | 49.41 | 179 | 177 | |
Luis Emilio Recabarren | Socialist Workers Party | 681 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 | |
Other candidates | 251 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 166,115 | 100.00 | 354 | 353 | ||
Valid votes | 166,115 | 99.52 | ||||
Invalid votes | 802 | 0.48 | ||||
Total votes | 166,917 | 100.00 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 370,314 | 45.07 | ||||
Source: Chilean Elections Database, Nohlen[1] |
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3