1938 Chilean presidential election

none April 2024 Chile presidential 1932 Chilean presidential election 1932 1942 Chilean presidential election 1942 25 October 1938 503,871 88.40% ( 14.00pp) Pedro Aguirre Cerda es elegido Presidente-2.JPG Pedro Aguirre Cerda Radical Party of Chile Popular Front 222,720 50.45% GustavoRossSantaMaria.jpg Gustavo Ross Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) Right-wing 218,609 49.52% 1938 Chilean presidential election.svg Results by commune President Arturo Alessandri Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) Pedro Aguirre Cerda Radical Party of Chile Presidential elections were held in Chile on 25 October 1938.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 978-0-19-928358-3 The result was a narrow victory for Pedro Aguirre Cerda of the Radical Party,Drake Paul Chile, 1930 — 58 1991 The Cambridge History of Latin America 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America 267–310 Bethell Leslie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-latin-america/chile-1930-58/E29ED69C56A3535B0DB2AB9A6726D050 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/chol9780521266529.006 978-0-521-26652-9 subscription who received 50.5% (or 50.3%) 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 that received the most votes.Nohlen, p259 Results Pedro Aguirre Cerda Radical Party 222720 Gustavo Ross Liberal Party 218609 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Popular Freedom Alliance 112 3970 503871 Nohlen References Category:Presidential elections in Chile President Chile Chile