1869 Costa Rican general election

1869 Costa Rican general election
27 March 1869
Presidential election
348 members of the Electoral College
175 votes needed to win
 
Nominee Jesús Jiménez Zamora
Party Independent
Electoral vote 345
Percentage 99.14%
President before election

Jesús Jiménez Zamora
Independent

 Elected President

Jesús Jiménez Zamora
Independent

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 27 March 1869 to elect the president for a three-year term.[1] They were the first and only elections conducted under the 1869 Constitution. Following the 1868 coup d'état that overthrew José María Castro Madriz before the end of his constitutional term, former president Jesús Jiménez Zamora returned to power as provisional president. After declaring the 1859 Constitution void and dissolving Congress, he convened a Constituent Assembly, which drafted the new constitution and called presidential elections. Jiménez was the sole candidate and was elected to a full constitutional term.

The 1869 Constitution retained the existing two-stage indirect electoral system. Male citizens voted in the first stage before electoral boards to chose electors, which then chose the president and the legislature through provincial electoral assemblies. Electors were required to be male citizens aged at least 21, literate, resident in the province where they were elected, and to meet specified property or income qualifications. Presidential terms remained at three years, with immediate re-election prohibited.[2]

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Jesús Jiménez ZamoraIndependent34599.14
Eusebio Figueroa OreamunoIndependent10.29
José María MontealegreIndependent10.29
Julián Volio LlorenteIndependent10.29
Total348100.00
Valid votes348100.00
Invalid/blank votes00.00
Total votes348100.00
Registered voters/turnout35897.21
Source: TSE[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Historia de las elecciones presidenciales 1824–2014" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica. 2017.
  2. ↑ Molina, Iván. "Elecciones y democracia en Costa Rica, 1885-1913" (PDF). European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 70: 41–57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
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