Presidential election in Chile (1938)

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The presidential election in Chile in the year took place on October 30, 1938 . Pedro Aguirre Cerda (PAC) competed against Alessandri's right-wing liberal finance minister Gustavo Ross (“Orden y Trabajo”) under the motto “Pan, Techo y Abrigo” . This was based on the Partido Conservador , the Partido Liberal , the Partido Demócrata and the Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio (COPROCO, now CPC), founded three years earlier .

The election was overshadowed by the massacre of more than 50 young supporters of the Movimiento Nacionalsocialista de Chile who tried to put forward before the election. Carlos Ibáñez del Campo , who had received support from the Nazis, was arrested and had to withdraw his candidacy. Paradoxically, in prison he called for the election of Pedro Aguirre Cerda , the candidate of the Frente Popular , a genuinely anti-fascist popular front . The election was very close, but the winner Cerda was able to take office after the military and the Roman Catholic Church recognized him as the winner and spoke out against a coup.

1938 presidential election in Chile
sources. Election results: Spanish Wikipedia: [1] , [2] , Ministry of the Interior , Servel , Cruz-Coke. Population: Nohlen, INE ( Memento from December 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

candidate be right in % Political party alliance Party support
Pedro Aguirre Cerda 227,720 51.01% Partido Radical Frente Popular PR , PS , PCCh
Gustavo Ross 218,609 48.97% Partido Liberal - PL , PC
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo 112 0.03% independently Alianza Popular Libertadora MNS
Abstention / invalid 1,523 0.34%
All in all 446.441 100%
voter turnout
population 5,023,500
Voters / population 8.9%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ricardo Cruz-Coke: Historia electoral de Chile. 1925-1973. Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago de Chile 1984.
  2. ↑ Dieter Nohlen: Chile - The socialist experiment . 1973, p. 339 .

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