1952 Mexican general election

none 1934 Mexico 7 July 1952 yes Presidential election presidential 1946 Mexican general election 1946 1958 Mexican general election 1958 130x130px Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (cropped).jpg Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Institutional Revolutionary Party Veracruz 2,713,419 74.31% Mhg foto11.jpg Miguel Henríquez Guzmán FPPM B70707 Coahuila 579,745 15.88% Efraín González Luna (3x4 cropped).jpg Efraín González Luna National Action Party (Mexico) Jalisco 285,555 7.82% President Miguel Alemán Valdés Institutional Revolutionary Party Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Institutional Revolutionary Party General elections were held in Mexico on 7 July 1952.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p453 978-0-19-928357-6 The presidential elections were won by Adolfo Ruiz Cortines of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who received 74.3% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the PRI won 151 of the 161 seats.Nohlen, p468 These were the last presidential elections in Mexico in which women were not allowed to vote. Campaign President Miguel Alemán Valdés appointed his Secretary of the Interior, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, as the PRI's presidential candidate. The coordinator of Ruiz Cortines's campaign was Adolfo López Mateos, who later succeeded him as president.Hernández Rodríguez Rogelio Los hombres del presidente de la Madrid Foro Internacional 1987 XXVIII 109 12 https://forointernacional.colmex.mx/index.php/fi/article/view/1110 29 January 2022 Miguel Henríquez Guzmán, a former priísta who left the party in 1951, was nominated as the candidate of the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FPPM). The National Action Party (PAN) nominated Efraín González Luna as their first-ever presidential candidate. Finally, the well-known union leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano ran as the candidate of the Popular Party (PP). The 1952 campaign season saw the model of political advertising aimed at praising the virtues of a party's candidate adopted. It was also the first time in Mexican history that market research was used in a political campaign. Among the opposition candidates, Henríquez Guzmán became particularly popular. His campaign used a mariachi tune composed for him by Manuel Ramos Trujillo to promote his candidacy. Though this use of campaign jingles was condemned by critics who saw it as taking away the seriousness of politics, the success of the song throughout many regions of the country led to widespread adoption of this and other marketing techniques in future campaigns. The alleged role of the family of Lázaro Cárdenas (president in 1934–1940) in this election has been widely commented: Amalia Solórzano and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas — respectively the wife and son of the former president — reportedly supported Henríquez Guzmán's candidacy, while Dámaso Cárdenas (brother of Lázaro and governor of Michoacán at the time) emphatically campaigned in favour of Ruiz Cortines; Lázaro himself was rumoured to be a sympathizer of Henríquez Guzmán, although officially he supported Ruiz Cortines, albeit in a rather discreet manner.Aguilar de la Parra Hesiquio Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: El poder con honradez 2012 Editores e Impresores Profesionales EDIMPRO 978-607-7744-44-3 176 Former Governor of Baja California Sur Francisco José Múgica (by then estranged from the PRI) made some statements during the campaign accusing Ruiz Cortines of having collaborated with the invaders during the 1914 US occupation of Veracruz. Ruiz Cortines denied the accusations and claimed that at the time he was in Mexico City in service of the Revolution under the command of Alfredo Robles Domínguez and Heriberto Jara Corona. Later in the campaign, during a visit to Veracruz on 7 June, the Municipality of Xalapa honoured him with a parchment denying the accusations and naming him a "Patriot and Illustrious Son of Veracruz".Aguilar de la Parra Hesiquio Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: El poder con honradez 2012 Editores e Impresores Profesionales EDIMPRO 978-607-7744-44-3 172, 180 Results President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) 2713419 Miguel Henríquez Guzmán Federation of Parties of the Mexican People (FPPM) 579745 #B70707 Efraín González Luna National Action Party (PAN) 285555 Vicente Lombardo Toledano Popular Party (PP) 72482 Other candidates 282 4924293 Nohlen Senate Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) 60 UNAM Chamber of Deputies Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) 2713419 151 +9 Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FPPM) 579745 2 New #B70707 National Action Party (PAN) 301986 5 +1 Popular Party (PP) 32194 2 +1 Nationalist Party of Mexico (PNM) 24139 1 New 4924293 +14 Nohlen, Chamber of Deputies, UNAM Aftermath In the official election count, Ruiz Cortines won with more than 74 percent of the popular vote, followed by Henríquez Guzmán with 16 percent. These results set off a wave of protests in several states by Henríquez supporters, which were violently suppressed by the administration of Miguel Alemán Valdés. Among those calling for justice were the former Mexican ambassador to Honduras, José Muñoz Cota Ibáñez, and Alicia Pérez Salazar. Some military chiefs, sympathizers of Henríquez Guzmán and aligned with former president Lázaro Cárdenas, seized the opportunity and proposed to carry out a coup d'état so that Henríquez would become president. However, it was Henríquez himself who rejected the plan, and instead he asked his supporters to stop the violent protests.Aguilar Garcia Juan Carlos Henríquez Guzmán, el general que evitó un baño de sangre en 1952 http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2006/249248.html 28 August 2018 Crónica 21 August 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180821170052/http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2006/249248.html dead Despite the intensity of the protests, the results stood, and as a result Henríquez Guzmán then retired from public life. Many years after the election, Ruiz Cortines revealed that only five weeks before he was scheduled to take office, he underwent a surgery to get rid of a hernia; to keep the surgery as a secret from the media, an operating room was temporally installed in Ruiz Cortines's Mexico City residence.Aguilar de la Parra Hesiquio Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: El poder con honradez 2012 Editores e Impresores Profesionales EDIMPRO 978-607-7744-44-3 183Ortega Eduardo Nunca estuvo en peligro la vida del presidente: médicos https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/nunca-estuvo-en-peligro-la-vida-del-presidente-medicos 30 March 2020 El Financiero 26 June 2015 After the successful surgery, Ruiz Cortines took office as scheduled on 1 December. References Category:Presidential elections in Mexico Category:Legislative elections in Mexico General General Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results