1898 Guatemalan presidential election

none 1898 Guatemalan presidential election Guatemala presidential no 1892 Guatemalan presidential election 1892 1904 Guatemalan presidential election 1904 September 1898 x150px Manuel Estrada Cabrera 312,797 99.79% Liberal Party (Guatemala) Quetzaltenango x150px José León Castillo 672 0.21% Liberal Party (Guatemala) Guatemala President Manuel Estrada Cabrera Liberal Party (Guatemala) President-elect Manuel Estrada Cabrera Liberal Party (Guatemala) Presidential elections were held in Guatemala during seven days in September 1898.Jorge Luján Muñoz (2003) Las revoluciones de 1897, la muerte de J.M. Reina Barrios y la elección de M. Estrada Cabrera, Guatemala: Artemis Edinter, p63 Prior to the elections Manuel Estrada Cabrera had established the first real political party in the country's history by admitting people from outside the influential liberals to the Liberal Party.Robert H Holden (2004) Armies without nations: public violence and state formation in Central America, 1821-1960, New York: Oxford University Press, p54 The elections were regarded as fraudulent; constitutional guarantees had been suspended for a month and opposition candidate José León Castillo had been unable to campaign. Estrada was declared the winner with 99.8% of the vote,Luján Muñoz, p64 although the number of votes cast is estimated to have been at least three times the number of people eligible to vote at the time.Luján Muñoz, pp70–71 Legislative Assembly Decree 413 of 26 September declared that Estrada's term of office would begin on 15 March 1899, but he assumed the presidency on 2 October. Results Manuel Estrada Cabrera Liberal Party 312797 José León Castillo Liberal Party 672 Luján Muñoz References Bibliography Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004. González Davison, Fernando. El régimen Liberal en Guatemala (1871–1944). Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 1987. Dosal, Paul J. Power in transition: the rise of Guatemala's industrial oligarchy, 1871-1994. Westport: Praeger. 1995. LaCharité, Norman A., Richard O. Kennedy, and Phillip M. Thienel. Case study in insurgency and revolutionary warfare: Guatemala, 1944-1954. Washington, D.C.: Special Operations Research Office, American University. 1964. Taracena Arriola, Arturo. "Liberalismo y poder político en Centroamérica (1870-1929)." Historia general de Centroamérica. 1994. San José: FLACSO. Volume 4. Category:Presidential elections in Guatemala Guatemala Category:1898 in Guatemala Category:September 1898 in North America Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:One-party elections