1966 Costa Rican general election

none January 2024 Costa Rica state 1962 Costa Rican general election 1962 1970 Costa Rican general election 1970 6 February 1966 yes presidential Presidential election 554,627 81.40% ( 0.53pp) Jose Joaquín Trejos Fernández.jpg José Joaquín Trejos Jorge Vega Virgilio Calvo National Unification Party (Costa Rica) 222,810 50.48% Daniel Oduber Quirós AL.jpg Daniel Oduber Manuel Aguilar Claudio Alpízar National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) 218,590 49.52% Elección Presidencial de Costa Rica (1966) (Distritos Administrativos).svg Results by districtTrejos: #696aaa 50–60% #57588e 60–70% #464771 70-80%Oduber: #457F66 50–60% #396A55 60–70% #2E5544 70-80% #224033 80-90% #172A22 90-100%Tie: #AA6EBB 50% yes Legislative election All 57 seats in the Legislative Assembly 29 81.40% ( 0.53pp) National Unification Party (Costa Rica) José Joaquín Trejos Fernández 43.16 26 New National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) Daniel Oduber Quirós 48.93 29 29 Revolutionary Civic Union Frank Marshall Jiménez 5.48 2 New Elecciones legislativas de Costa Rica de 1966 - Diputados por Provincia.svg Results by province President Francisco Orlich National Liberation Party (Costa Rica) José Joaquín Trejos National Unification Party (Costa Rica) thumb|right|Ballot paper General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1966.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p155 978-0-19-928357-6 José Joaquín Trejos Fernández of the National Unification Party narrowly won the presidential election, whilst the National Liberation Party won the parliamentary election.Cruz Rodolfo Cerdas Costa Rica since 1930 1990 The Cambridge History of Latin America 7: Latin America since 1930: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean 367–416 Bethell Leslie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/costa-rica-since-1930/11EB4D60E3B751A0A454C12247832019 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/chol9780521245180.009 978-0-521-24518-0 subscription Voter turnout was 81%.Nohlen, p156 These were very divisive elections as they had only two candidates.Hernández Naranjo Gerardo Reseña de las elecciones presidenciales de 1966 http://163.178.170.110/AtlasFinal2/documentos/ResenaHistoricaEleccion/1966.pdf Proyecto Atlas Electoral de Costa Rica 1953–2006 13 April 2016 SpanishFebruary 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes On one hand the government party PLN nominated the Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Oduber Quirós, whilst all the right-wing opposition joined forces and former enemies Rafael Calderón and his National Republican Party (Social Christian) merged with Otilio Ulate’s National Union (Liberal-Conservative) in the National Unification Party. Calderón and Ulate were enemies during the 1948 Civil War but put aside their differences and they agree that none of them will be candidate. The National Unification Party look forward a “neutral” candidate that could unified the opposition and college professor and economist José Joaquín Trejos was selected. Trejos had never hold a public office before. Left-wing opposition was outlawed as the Legislative Assembly made effective the article 98 of Costa Rica's Constitution at the time that forbid Communist parties, making illegal the only party at the left of PLN, the Popular Democratic Action (PADA) led by Manuel Mora. The campaign was particularly ideological, as the two candidates were basically encompassing the only Right-Left options and were defenders of two very different ideologies; Oduber (and PLN) abide to democratic socialism and Trejos was conservative. The debate centered on both opposing philosophies; Trejos accused PLN of statism and been smothering the private enterprise, whilst Oduber accused Trejos of being supported by the richest of the rich and trying to bring down Costa Rica's social justice and labor laws. In one of the most hard-fought elections in Costa Rica's history, Trejos won by a small difference of around 2000 votes (one of Costa Rica's slightest differences between two candidates), though PLN kept its parliamentary majority (thus many of Trejos’ reforms did not passed). Far-right Revolutionary Civic Union Party won two seats in Parliament. The results were accepted by all sides and many historians seem this election as the evidence that the dark times of civil unrest and conflict after electoral processes that end in the Civil War were put behind for good. Results President José Joaquín Trejos Fernández National Unification Party 222810 Daniel Oduber Quirós National Liberation Party 218590 6265 3825 554627 Election ResourcesElection Resources By province Province Trejos % Oduber % San José 49.7 50.3 Alajuela 51.4 48.9 Cartago 48.6 51.4 Heredia 51.2 48.8 Puntarenas 55.7 44.3 Limón 54.7 45.3 Guanacaste 48.0 52.0 Total 50.5 49.5 Legislative Assembly File:Costa Rica Legislative Assembly 1966.svg National Liberation Party 202891 29 0 National Unification Party 178953 26 New Revolutionary Civic Union 22721 2 New Democratic Party 8543 0 New Guanacastecan Republican Party 1529 0 New National Republican Party (Costa Rica) 28748 8090 0 554627 Election ResourcesElection Resources By province Province PLN UN UCR PD PRG % S % S % S % S % S San José 49.410 42.39 7.22 1.10 -- Alajuela 49.25 44.65 3.10 3.10 -- Cartago 49.74 39.53 5.40 5.40 -- Heredia 49.02 46.11 2.80 2.00 -- Puntarenas 44.23 50.54 4.10 1.30 -- Limón 44.52 44.41 7.80 3.40 -- Guanacaste 51.53 38.83 5.50 0.30 3.90 Total 48.929 43.226 5.52 2.10 0.40 Local governments Alderpeople +/– Municipalsyndics +/– National Liberation Party 207876 152 4 202 –78 National Unification Party 195092 140 New 132 New Revolutionary Civic Union 13918 1 New 0 New Democratic Party 2809 0 New 0 New Guanacastecan Republican Party 1335 0 New 0 New National Republican Party (Costa Rica) Palmarenean Democratic Front 451 0 New 0 New #5DDDD1 +18 +10 29846 554627 TSEhttp://atlaselectoral.tse.go.cr/regiduria/1966/area Elecciones Regidurías 1966 Spanish tse.go.cr Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones 21 May 2020 References Costa General Category:Parliamentary elections in Costa Rica Category:Presidential elections in Costa Rica