1857 Mexican general election

none 1823 Mexico September 1857 yes Presidential election presidential 1853 Mexican presidential election 1853 1861 Mexican general election 1861 Ignacio Comonfort.PNG Ignacio Comonfort 8,084 92.67% Miguel Lerdo de Tejada.jpg Miguel Lerdo de Tejada 639 7.33% President Ignacio Comonfort Ignacio Comonfort General elections were held in Mexico in September 1857.J. Burton Kirkwood (2009) The History of Mexico, 2nd Edition p. 103 They were the first to be held under the February 1857 constitution, which introduced direct elections for the presidency,Roger D. Congleton, Bernard N. Grofman & Stefan Voigt (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Volume 2 p. 180 abolished the Senate, and introduced universal male suffrage for citizens aged 18 (if married) or 20 (if single), as long as they had an "honest mode of living".José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (2012) "Beyond the restrictive consensus: elections in Mexico (1809–1847)", Rev. Sociol. Polit. 20 (42) Incumbent president Ignacio Comonfort was re-elected with 93% of the vote, defeating Miguel Lerdo de Tejada. Results President Ignacio Comonfort 8084 Miguel Lerdo de Tejada 639 Hamnetthttp://www.jstor.org/stable/3339405 The Comonfort Presidency, 1855–1857 Hamnett, Brian 1996 Bulletin of Latin American Research 15 1 81–100 3339405 References General Category:Presidential elections in Mexico Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:September 1857