1931 Chilean presidential election

none Chile presidential 1927 Chilean presidential election 1927 1932 Chilean presidential election 1932 4 October 1931 388,959 73.47% ( 3.08pp) Juan Esteban Montero.jpg Juan Esteban Montero Radical Party of Chile 182,177 63.94% Arturo Alessandri P.jpg Arturo Alessandri Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) 99,075 34.77% President Manuel Trucco (acting) Radical Party of Chile Juan Esteban Montero Radical Party of Chile Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 October 1931.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 978-0-19-928358-3 The result was a landslide victory for Juan Esteban Montero of the Radical Party, who received 64% of the vote.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 He was the first member of the Radical Party to be elected president. The elections took place amid economic turmoil due to the Great Depression and in the aftermath of the toppling of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo's military government. 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 Results Juan Esteban Montero Radical Party 182177 Arturo Alessandri Liberal Party 99075 Elías Lafertte Communist Party 2434 Manuel Hidalgo Communist Left 1226 red 861 388959 Gamonal,J. Germán Gamonal R. (1987) Jorge Alessandri, el hombre, el político, p65 Nohlen References Category:Presidential elections in Chile Presidential Chile Chile