1911 Salvadoran presidential election

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1911. Manuel Enrique Araujo was elected president through a popular election,^[1] receiving 182,964 votes.^[2] Araujo defeated General Luis Alonso Barahona^[3] and Doctor Esteban Castro.^[4] All men were eligible to vote in the election.^[5]

President Fernando Figueroa selected Araujo as his successor and heavily rigged the election in his favor. Historian Alastair White wrote that "opponents were allowed to participate but not allowed to win".^[6] Thomas Dabney, the United States interim chargé d'affaires to El Salvador, wrote that "popular suffrage is but a fiction [...] That the official candidate will be elected in 1911, is according to general opinion, a foregone conclusion".^[7] The Diario Oficial newspaper reported that the 182,964 votes in favor Araujo "genuinely represented" ("genuinamente representado") the will of the people.^[2]

Results


Candidate		Party	Votes
	Manuel Enrique Araujo	Liberal	182,964
	Luis Alonso Barahona	Military/Independent
	Esteban Castro	Independent
Total

Source: Diario Oficial 1911, p. 105

References

Citations

^ Casa Presidencial.
^ ^a ^b Diario Oficial 1911, p. 105.
^ Trabanino.
^ Vidal 1969, p. 357.
^ Nohlen 2005, p. 270.
^ White 1973, p. 90.
^ Ching 1997, p. 221.

Bibliography

"Elecciones de Autoridades Supremas" [Elections of the Supreme Authorities] (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Vol. 70, no. 10. 12 January 1911. pp. 105–106. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
Ching, Erik K. (1997). From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and Authoritarianism in El Salvador, 1840–1940. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara. OCLC 39326756. ProQuest 304330235. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1: North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 270–299. ISBN 9780191557934. OCLC 58051010. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
"Presidentes de El Salvador – Doctor Manuel Enrique Araujo". Casa Presidencial (in Spanish). Government of El Salvador. Archived from the original on 8 April 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
Trabanino, J. Guillermo. "El Presidente Mártir" [The Martyr President]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
Vidal, Manuel (1969). Nociones de Historia de Centro América: Especial para El Salvador [Notions of History of Central America: Special for El Salvador] (in Spanish). Central America: Ministry of Education.
White, Alastair (1973). El Salvador. Nations of the Modern World. London and Tonbridge: Ernest Benn Limited. ISBN 0510395236. LCCN 73175341. OCLC 1391406624. Retrieved 21 October 2024.

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