1905 Cuban general election

none Cuba 1902 1 December 1905 1901 Cuban general election 1901 1908 Cuban general election 1908 yes Presidential election presidential Portrait of Tomás Estrada Palma.jpg Tomás Estrada Palma Moderate Party 306,874 President Tomás Estrada Palma Independent politician Tomás Estrada Palma Moderate Party General elections were held in Cuba on 1 December 1905.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 978-0-19-928357-6 Tomás Estrada Palma won the presidential election, whilst his Moderate Party won all twelve seats in the Senate and 31 of the 32 seats in the House of Representatives, winning 27 of the 63 seats. Voter turnout was 74%.Nohlen, p204 Results President Tomás Estrada Palma Moderate Party 306874 317972 429730 Nohlen Senate Moderate Party 12 Nohlen House of Representatives Moderate Party 31 Independents 1 Nohlen Aftermath The election results were highly contested and accusations of fraud were made. Registration of voters by local electoral boards resulted in an electoral roll of 423,313, a figure American Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon declared to be 150,000 names too high. According to American professor Russell H. Fitzgibbon, La Discussion, a leading moderate newspaper, protested about electoral fraud. According to a Taft Bacon report of 1906, Freyre de Andrade, a Cuban minister, told American commissioners that it was "impossible to hold an election in Cuba without fraud" and that thousands of extra names had perhaps been added "out of spirit of mischief."Russell H. Fitzgibbon (1935) Cuba and the United States: 1900-1935, p115 In 1906 American President Theodore Roosevelt created a Peace Commission following the Cuban rebellions of the summer of 1906. The commission was sent to Cuba to investigate the situation and "attempt to restore peace and re-establish law and Order." The Peace Commission found that the congressional elections of 1905 had been "so tainted by fraud as to render them illegal". Taft as self-declared provisional governor of Cuba subsequently suspended the Congress.Annual Report of Charles E. Magoon, Provisional Governor of Cuba, to the Secretary of War, Government Printing Office, 1908, p18 References Cuba General Category:Presidential elections in Cuba Category:Parliamentary elections in Cuba Cuba Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results