1872 Peruvian presidential election

none Peru 1868 Peruvian presidential election 1868 1876 Peruvian presidential election 1876 May 1872 presidential 130x130px Manuel Pardo ManuelPardo.jpg Civilista Party 2,706 69.35% Antonio Arenas Antarenas.png Manuel Toribio Ureta es Manuel Toribio Ureta 2.jpg Civilista Party President Mariano Herencia Zevallos Manuel Pardo Civilista Party Presidential elections were held in Peru in May 1872. Manuel Pardo of the Civilista Party was elected with 69% of the vote, becoming the first civilian to be elected to the presidency and the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Peru.https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/Peru/elections-and-events-1870-1899.html Elections and Events 1870-1899 The Library UC San Diego https://web.archive.org/web/20210113083614/https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/Peru/elections-and-events-1870-1899.html 13 January 2021 They have been described as the first free and fair elections in Peruvian history.Madrid Raúl L. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/birth-of-democracy-in-south-america/A8EA21756D12D27A6171337F2BF3F415 The Birth of Democracy in South America 2025 Cambridge University Press 978-1-009-63381-9 67 Electoral system The elections were indirect, with the president elected by the electoral colleges elected on 15 October 1871. Results Manuel Pardo Civilista Party 2706 Antonio Arenas 1196 2 Manuel Toribio Ureta es Civilista Party Mückehttps://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735055592525/viewer#page/122/mode/2up Political culture in nineteenth-century Peru: the rise of the Partido Civil Ulrich Mücke 2004 112 Aftermath Following the elections, Congress was to meet in August to ratify the results. Outgoing president José Balta was overthrown on 22 July in a coup led by Tomás Gutiérrez aimed at preventing Pardo from taking office. Both Balta and Gutiérrez were killed four days later. Gutiérrez was succeeded as president by Francisco Diez Canseco, who was in office for only one day before being replaced by Mariano Herencia Zevallos, who served as interim president until Pardo took office on 2 August. References Category:Presidential elections in Peru Peru Presidential Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results