1907 Salvadoran presidential election explained

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 13 January 1907. General Fernando Figueroa was elected with 99.76 percent of the vote. His closest rival Luis Alonso Barahona received 222 votes to Figueroa's 152,053.

Campaign

Prior to the 1907 presidential election, President Pedro José Escalón and his allies hand-picked Divisional General Fernando Figueroa to be his successor as president of El Salvador. All men were eligible to vote in the election.

Results

President

Results by department

The following table displays the number of votes each presidential candidate received from each of the country's 14 departments. The candidate with the most votes in a department is highlighted in .

Department	Figueroa	Barahona	Villavicencio	Guirola	Arévalo	Meléndez	Escalón	Estupinián	Gutiérrez	Alfaro	Others
	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes
Ahuachapán	9,902	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cabañas	5,364	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chalatenango	9,778	142	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0
Cuscatlán	9,890	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
La Libertad	11,797	13	3	16	6	1	4	0	0	0	8
La Paz	14,299	11	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17
La Unión	6,655	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Morazán	9,457	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
San Miguel	11,467	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
San Salvador	18,851	3	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Santa Ana	13,947	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3
San Vicente	6,778	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sonsonate	11,028	26	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	3
Usulután	12,840	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	152,053	222	39	16	11	8	6	4	1	1	58
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354

Vice president

Results by department

The following table displays the number of votes each vice presidential candidate received from each of the country's 14 departments. The candidate with the most votes in a department is highlighted in .

Department	Araujo	Batrés	Meléndez	Morán	Estupinián	Others
	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes	data-sort-type="number"	Votes
Ahuachapán	9,901	0	0	0	0	7
Cabañas	5,365	0	0	0	0	1
Chalatenango	9,769	0	112	0	0	13
Cuscatlán	10,885	0	0	0	0	26
La Libertad	11,790	0	0	0	0	1
La Paz	14,298	0	0	0	11	26
La Unión	6,617	0	0	0	0	3
Morazán	9,457	0	0	0	0	0
San Miguel	11,469	0	0	0	0	3
San Salvador	18,855	0	0	0	0	4
Santa Ana	13,926	0	0	0	0	18
San Vicente	6,770	0	0	23	0	0
Sonsonate	4,354	6,689	0	1	0	10
Usulután	12,842	0	0	0	0	0
Total	146,298	6,689	112	24	11	112
Source: Diario Oficial 1907, p. 354

References

Bibliography

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