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Presidential elections were held in Chile on 22 May 1927,[1] following the resignation of President Emiliano Figueroa. The result was a victory for Interior Minister Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who ran as an independent and received 98% of the vote.
Ibáñez's only opponent was the communist Elías Lafertte, who was exiled in the Juan Fernández Archipelago throughout the electoral campaign.[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
- ^ Blakemore, Harold (1986), Bethell, Leslie (ed.), "Chile from the War of the Pacific to the world depression, 1880–1930", The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 5: c.1870 to 1930, vol. 5, Cambridge University Press, pp. 497–552, doi:10.1017/chol9780521245173.016, ISBN 978-0-521-24517-3
- ^ Nohlen, p259