1956 Salvadoran presidential election

1956 elections in El Salvador January 2022 1956 Salvadoran presidential election El Salvador Presidential no 1950 Salvadoran general election 1950 1962 Salvadoran presidential election 1962 4 March 1956 150x150px José María Lemus Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification 677,748 95.20% 3x4.svg Rafael Carranza Anaya PCA 22,659 3.18% PAR Renovating Action Party Enrique Magaña Menénendez Renovating Action Party 11,524 1.62% President Óscar Osorio DPNU José María Lemus DPNU Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 1956.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 978-0-19-928357-6 The result was a victory for José María Lemus of the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, who received 95.2% of the vote. The Central Electoral Council had disqualified the candidacies of José Alberto Funes (Democratic Institutional Party), Roberto Edmundo Cannessa (National Action Party) and José Alvaro Díaz (Nationalist Democratic Party). It also forbade Rafael Carranza Anaya (Authentic Constitutional Party) and Enrique Magaña Menéndez (Renovating Action Party) from withdrawing their candidacies; nevertheless, the latter two boycotted the elections.Nohlen, p288 Results José María Lemus Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification 677748 Rafael Carranza Anaya Authentic Constitutional Party 22659 Enrique Magaña Menéndez Renovating Action Party 11524 Nohlen References Bibliography Benítez Manaut, Raúl. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990). Kantor, Harry. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. 1969. McDonald, Ronald H. "Electoral behavior and political development in El Salvador." Journal of politics 31, 2:397-419 (May 1969). 1969. Parker, Franklin D. The Central American republics. Westport: Greenwood Press. Reprint of 1971 edition. 1981. Political Handbook of the world, 1956. New York, 1957. Ruddle, Kenneth. Latin American political statistics. supplement to the statistical abstract of Latin America. Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA. 1972. Webre, Stephen. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979. White, Alastair. El Salvador. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1973. Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997. El Salvador Politics El Salvador Category:Presidential elections in El Salvador Category:1956 in El Salvador Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Category:March 1956 in North America