1936 Peruvian general election

none Peru state 1931 Peruvian general election 1931 11 October 1936 1939 Peruvian general election 1939 yes Presidential election presidential Dr. Luis Antonio Eguiguren.jpg Luis A. Eguiguren Social Democratic Party (Peru) es Partido Social Demócrata (Perú) Social Democratic 76,042 37.13% ff0000 Luis A Flores.jpg Luis A. Flores Revolutionary Union 57,838 29.1% Jorge Prado.jpg Jorge Prado Ugarteche es Conservative Coalition (Peru) es Coalición Conservadora (Perú) Conservative 57,838 20.7% dbba6d Manuel Vicente Villaran1.jpg Manuel Vicente Villarán es Independent politician 30,803 13.1% President Óscar R. Benavides Military junta Election results annulled General elections were held in Peru on 11 October 1936.Elections and Events 1930-1949 https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/Peru/elections-and-events-1930-1949.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210114191532/https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/Peru/elections-and-events-1930-1949.html 2021-01-14 2025-09-09 library.ucsd.edu en-US In the presidential election, Luis A. Eguiguren of the Social Democratic Party (Peru) es Partido Social Demócrata (Perú) Social Democratic Party appeared to be heading for victory, but outgoing president Óscar R. Benavides who favored Jorge Prado Ugarteche es, ordered the count to be stopped and the election results were subsequently annulled.Bertram Geoffrey Peru, 1930–60 1991 The Cambridge History of Latin America 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America 383–450 Bethell Leslie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/peru-193060/20F89D58A3C1105E0153FFA6207716B3 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/chol9780521266529.008 978-0-521-26652-9 subscription Benavides subsequently stayed in power as president. Background Incumbent president Benavides' term of office was due to expire in December 1936. He announced that he would not run for re-election and called elections for 11 October. There were eighteen political parties in existence, but most ran as alliances in the election. Four candidates were approved to run for office. The election commission barred Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) on 5 September 1936 under article 53 of the constitution, which banned 'international parties'. The APRA subsequently convinced Luis Antonio Eguiguren to disown the National Front of Jorge Prado Ugarteche es and organise his own Democratic Front, which the APRA called for its members to vote for. Results President When it appeared Eguiguren was winning, Benavides ordered the count to be suspended on the basis that members of the banned APRA had voted for him. At the point it was stopped on 21 October, with 70 of the 119 provinces having completed the count, Eguiguren had 74,485 votes,La anulacion de las elecciones generales del 11 de octubre en el Peru por el Jurado Nacional Laa Nacion, 6 November 1936, p11 or 37% of the total. Luis A. Eguiguren Social Democratic Party (Peru) es Partido Social Demócrata (Perú) Social Democratic Party 76042 red Luis A. Flores Conservative Coalition (Peru) es Coalición Conservadora (Perú) Conservative Coalition 57838 #dbba6d Jorge Prado Ugarteche es Revolutionary Union 46773 Manuel Vicente Villarán es Independent 30803 Molinari Morales https://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/items/9df35cd2-3cd6-4f01-b021-280f7e41e458 La Unión Revolucionaria, 1931-1939 : una aproximación a la historia del fascismo en el Perú 2004 Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúCorrales Cobas Efraín Manuel 2018-07-15 Las elecciones de 1936 y su anulación https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/sociologia/article/view/18999/15918 Revista de sociología 26 251–290 Aftermath Under pressure from Benavides, on 4 November the outgoing Congress met and declared the election annulled. A motion by the Revolutionary Union that accused Benavides of having "presented the presidential and parliamentary elections of the period 1936–1941" was defeated by 64 votes to 13. Benavides subsequently forced Congress to pass a law extending his term until 1939 and then dissolved the legislature, instead ruling by decree and forming a new all-military government. References General Peru Category:Presidential elections in Peru Category:Parliamentary elections in Peru Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:Annulled elections Category:October 1936 in South America