General elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 April 1910.[1] Liberal lawyer Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno was elected for the first time (he would subsequently be re-elected two more times, the only person in Costa Rica's history to be democratically elected three times). Jiménez was very popular in part because of his struggles against the United Fruit Company's abusive operations in the country.[2] Jiménez was proclaimed candidate in the Teatro Variedades during the first Republican National Convention, Costa Rica's first primary election.[2] Jiménez won easily over the other candidate, former president Rafael Yglesias who ruled an authoritarian, though short-lived, regime.
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The 1910 elections were the last under an indirect electoral system and for the next elections in 1913 the direct vote was implemented.[3]
Results
edit| Candidate | Party | Popular vote | Electoral College | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno | Republican Party | 39,023 | 71.27 | 828 | 95.83 | |
| Rafael Yglesias Castro | Civil Party | 15,729 | 28.73 | 36 | 4.17 | |
| Total | 54,752 | 100.00 | 864 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: TSE, Salazar[4] | ||||||
First round by province
edit| Province | Jiménez % | Yglesias % | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 San José Province
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76.62 | 23.38 | ||||||||
 Alajuela
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62.93 | 37.07 | ||||||||
 Cartago Province
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91.72 | 8.28 | ||||||||
 Heredia
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73.40 | 26.60 | ||||||||
 Guanacaste
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55.21 | 44.79 | ||||||||
 Puntarenas
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64.62 | 35.38 | ||||||||
 Limón
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26.41 | 73.59 | ||||||||
| Total | 71.21 | 28.78 | ||||||||
| Source: Salazar[4] | ||||||||||
Second round by province
edit| Province | Jiménez | Yglesias | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San José Province
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294 | - | ||||||||
| Alajuela
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201 | 3 | ||||||||
| Cartago Province
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138 | - | ||||||||
| Heredia
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105 | - | ||||||||
| Guanacaste
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42 | 33 | ||||||||
| Puntarenas
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44 | - | ||||||||
| Limón
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4 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 828 | 36 | ||||||||
| Source: TSE | ||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Historia de las elecciones presidenciales 1824–2014" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica. 2017.
- ^ a b Oconitrillo, Eduardo. La política electoral. Costa Rica en el siglo XX. EUNED.
- ^ Molina, Iván (2001). "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 2018-12-21.
- ^ a b Salazar, O. (2003) El apogeo de la República Liberal en Costa Rica, 1870-1914, p 230 ISBN 9977-67-131-1