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1936 Honduran Constituent Assembly election
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Constituent Assembly elections were held in Honduras on 26 January 1936.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p407 978-0-19-928357-6Elections and Events 1925-1947 https://web.archive.org/web/20201101111440/https://library.ucsd.edu/research-and-collections/collections/notable-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/Honduras/19251947.html 2020-11-01 The Library, UC San Diego
Background
Congress voted on 6 January to call elections for a Constituent Assembly to write a new constitution, with 56 in favour and two against.William S. Stokes (1950) Honduras: an area study in government, p256
Results
National Party 132948 59 Liberal Party 46 0 ArguetaMario Argueta (1989) Tiburcio Carías: anatomía de una época, 1923-1948, p94
Aftermath
The newly elected Assembly met for the first time on 8 March. It drafted a constitution, article 202 of which allowed president Tiburcio Carías Andino and vice president Abraham Williams Calderón to continue in power until 1 January 1943.Stokes, p100 It also extended its term until December 1942.Political Handbook of the World 1937, p94
References
Bibliography
Argueta, Mario. Tiburcio Carías: anatomía de una época, 1923-1948. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras. 1989.
Dodd, Thomas JTiburcio Carías: portrait of a Honduran political leader. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. . 2005.
Elections in the Americas A Data Handbook Volume 1. North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Edited by Dieter Nohlen. 2005.
Political handbook of the world 1937. New York, 1938.
Stokes, William S. Honduras: an area study in government. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1950.
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