1942 Chilean presidential election

none September 2015 Chile presidential 1938 Chilean presidential election 1938 1946 Chilean presidential election 1946 1 February 1942 581,486 80.23% ( 8.17pp) Retrato del Presidente Juan Antonio Ríos.jpg Juan Antonio Ríos Radical Party of Chile 260,034 55.95% Carlos Ibañez del Campo-Revista Zig-Zag.jpg Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Independent politician 204,635 44.03% 1942 Chilean presidential election.svg Results by commune President Jerónimo Méndez (acting) Radical Party of Chile Juan Antonio Ríos Radical Party of Chile Presidential elections were held in Chile on February 1, 1942.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 978-0-19-928358-3 The result was a victory for Juan Antonio Ríos of the Radical Party, who received 56% of the vote. Electoral system The election was held using the absolute majority system, under which a candidate had to receive over 50% of the popular vote to be elected. If no candidate received over 50% of the vote, both houses of the National Congress would come together to vote on the two candidates who received the most votes.Nohlen, p259 Background In 1941, due to his rapidly escalating illness, President Pedro Aguirre Cerda appointed his Minister of the Interior, Jerónimo Méndez as vice-president and died soon after, on November 25, 1941. Aguirre Cerda's two natural successors were Juan Antonio Ríos and Gabriel González Videla, both members of his Radical Party, while the right-wing coalition was united by a common candidate, former President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who had the support of the Conservative party, Liberal Party, National Socialist Party, Popular Socialist Vanguard and the majority of the independents. Ríos started to campaign early but two days before the internal primaries of his party, Gabriel González Videla (the ambassador to Brazil) returned to Chile to dispute him the nomination. The results were too close to call, so a tribunal of honor (electoral commission) was constituted, and Juan Antonio Ríos was finally proclaimed the candidate of a left-wing coalition of parties, the Democratic Alliance, which was formed by the Radical Party, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Democratic Party and the Workers' Socialist Party. One of the candidates in the election was identified by American and British intelligence as an ally of the Axis countries, which led to debates in the US government about intervening in the election and abandoning Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy.Hurtado-Torres Sebastián 2023 The United States, Great Britain, and the Chilean Presidential Election of 1942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad007 Diplomatic History 10.1093/dh/dhad007 0145-2096 subscription Results Juan Antonio Ríos Radical Party 260034 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Independent 204635 Other candidates 124 1714 581486 Nohlen References Category:Presidential elections in Chile Presidential Chile Chile Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results