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1934 Colombian presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 11 February 1934.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p305 978-0-19-928358-3 The result was a victory for Alfonso López Pumarejo of the Liberal Party, who received 99.6% of the vote.Nohlen, p351 He took office on 7 August.Nohlen, p358
The Conservative Party alleged Liberal gerrymandering and called for the elections to be boycotted.Abel Christopher Columbia, 1930–58 1991 The Cambridge History of Latin America 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America 585–628 Bethell Leslie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/columbia-193058/C42F5AF815504D47AF92B14EBFB3DBFC Cambridge University Press 10.1017/chol9780521266529.011 978-0-521-26652-9 Marco Palacio subscription
López ran a campaign emphasizing reform, welfare programs, liberal democracy, constitutional reform, education reform (moving away from Church-provided education to public education), expansion of male suffrage, land reform to redistribute idle land to the landless.
Results
Alfonso López Pumarejo Colombian Liberal Party 938608 Eutiquio Timoté Colombian Communist Party 1974 Others 1427 1542441 Nohlen, Historia Electoral ColombianaHistoria Electoral Colombiana, p155
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