1910 Costa Rican general election

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7 April 1910

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Presidential election


Nominee	Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	Rafael Yglesias Castro
Party	Republican	Civil
Electoral vote	828	36
Popular vote	39,023	15,729

President before election

Cleto González Víquez
National

Elected President

Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
Republican

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 April 1910. Liberal lawyer Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was elected for the first time (he would subsequently be re-elected two more times, the only person in Costa Rica's history to be democratically elected three times). Jiménez was very popular in part because of his struggles against the United Fruit Company's abusive operations in the country. Jiménez was proclaimed candidate in the Teatro Variedades during the first Republican National Convention, Costa Rica's first primary election. Jiménez won easily over the other candidate, former president Rafael Yglesias who ruled an authoritarian, though short-lived, regime.

The 1910 elections were the last under an indirect electoral system and for the next elections in 1913 the direct vote was implemented.

Results


Candidate		Party	Popular vote		Electoral College
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	Republican Party	39,023	71.27	828	95.83
	Rafael Yglesias Castro	Civil Party	15,729	28.73	36	4.17
Total			54,752	100.00	864	100.00

Source: TSE, Salazar

First round by province

Province	Jiménez %	Yglesias %
Province
San José Province	76.62	23.38
Alajuela	62.93	37.07
Cartago Province	91.72	8.28
Heredia	73.40	26.60
Guanacaste	55.21	44.79
Puntarenas	64.62	35.38
Limón	26.41	73.59
Total	71.21	28.78
Source: Salazar

Second round by province

Province	Jiménez	Yglesias
Province
San José Province	294	-
Alajuela	201	3
Cartago Province	138	-
Heredia	105	-
Guanacaste	42	33
Puntarenas	44	-
Limón	4	0
Total	828	36
Source: TSE

References

"Historia de las elecciones presidenciales 1824–2014" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica. 2017.
^ Oconitrillo, Eduardo. La política electoral. Costa Rica en el siglo XX. EUNED.
Molina, Iván (2001). "Elecciones y democracia en Costa Rica, 1885-1913" (PDF). European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 70: 41–57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
^ Salazar, O. (2003) El apogeo de la República Liberal en Costa Rica, 1870-1914, p 230 ISBN 9977-67-131-1

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