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Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 October 1931.[1] The result was a landslide victory for Juan Esteban Montero of the Radical Party, who received 64% of the vote.[2] He was the first member of the Radical Party to be elected president.[2]
The elections took place amid economic turmoil due to the Great Depression and in the aftermath of the toppling of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's military government.[2]
Electoral system
The election was held using the absolute majority system, under which a candidate had to receive over 50% of the popular vote to be elected. If no candidate received over 50% of the vote, both houses of the National Congress would come together to vote on the two candidates who received the most votes.[3]
Results
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ^ a b c Drake, Paul (1991), Bethell, Leslie (ed.), "Chile, 1930 — 58", The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America, vol. 8, Cambridge University Press, pp. 267–310, doi:10.1017/chol9780521266529.006, ISBN 978-0-521-26652-9
- ^ Nohlen, p259
- ^ J. Germán Gamonal R. (1987) Jorge Alessandri, el hombre, el político, p65