1932 Salvadoran legislative election

none January 2022 El Salvador 1931 1936 12–14 January 1932 All 42 seats in the Legislative Assembly 22 Pro-Government Maximiliano Hernández Martínez 42 President of the National Assembly José Manuel Olano Salvadoran Laborist Party José Honorato Villacorta Pro-Government Legislative elections were held in El Salvador between 12 and 14 January 1932. The government had promised free and fair elections and invited all parties, including the Communist Party, to compete. However, voters had to be registered in their municipalities alongside their party, giving the government a list of Communist Party members.Anderson, Thomas P. (1971) Matanza: El Salvador's communist revolt of 1932 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, p 88 In the preceding municipal elections on 3–5 January the Communists won several predominantly indigenous municipalities in the west of the country.Beverley John El Salvador 1982 Social Text English Duke University Press 5 55-72 466334 Maximiliano Hernández Martínez cancelled the planned second round of the legislative and municipal elections due to the Communist success.Elections and Events 1900-1934 https://web.archive.org/web/20210110082944/https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/El%20Salvador/elections-and-events-1900-1934.html 10 January 2021 The Library, UC San Diego The conservative Progressive Fraternal Party boycotted the elections in San Salvador on the grounds of electoral fraud.Anderson, p 91 References Bibliography Alvarenga Venutolo, Patricia. Cultura y etica de la violencia. San José: EDUCA. Based on her dissertation, Reshaping the ethics of power: a history of violence in El Salvador (1994). 1996. Bland, Gary. "Assessing the transition to democracy." Tulchin, Joseph S. with Gary Bland, eds. 1992. Is there a transition to democracy in El Salvador? Boulder: Westview Press (Woodrow Wilson Center current studies on Latin America). 1992. Grieb, Kenneth J. "The United States and the rise of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez." Journal of Latin American studies 3, 2:151-172 (November 1971). 1971. Larde y Larín, Jorge. Guía Histórica de El Salvador. San Salvador: Ministerio de Culture. 1958. Political Handbook of the world, 1932. New York, 1933. Vidal, Manuel. Nociones de historia de Centro América (especial para El Salvador). San Salvador: Ministerio de Educación. Ninth edition. 1970. El Salvador Category:Legislative elections in El Salvador Legislative Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:Democratic backsliding in El Salvador Category:January 1932 in North America Category:Democratic backsliding in the interwar period