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1953 Costa Rican general election
26 July 1953
Presidential election
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Nominee
José Figueres Ferrer
Fernando Castro Cervantes [es]
Party
PLN
Democratic
Popular vote
123,444
67,324
Percentage
64.71%
35.29%
President before election
Otilio Ulate
PUN
Elected President
José Figueres Ferrer
PLN
Parliamentary election
← 1949
1958 →
All 45 seats in the Legislative Assembly 23 seats needed for a majority
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
PLN
José Figueres Ferrer
64.75
30
+27
Democratic
Fernando Castro Cervantes [es]
21.19
11
New
PRN
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia
7.21
3
New
PUN
Otilio Ulate Blanco
6.85
1
−34
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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A ballot paper from the elections
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 26 July 1953.[1] José Figueres Ferrer of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 67% in the presidential election and 68% in the parliamentary election.[2] Local elections were also held.
This was Costa Rica's first election since the end of the 1948 Civil War, and democratic guarantees were not fully restored.
José Figueres, the caudillo of the victorious National Liberation Army faction in the Civil War, was the candidate of the newly founded National Liberation Party (PLN).[3] Liberal Mario Echandi tried to be the candidate from then-ruling National Union Party (PUN), but his candidacy was denied by the Electoral Tribunal due to purported irregularities in the adherents' signatures.[3] This move was highly criticized by Figueres' opponents as an action in favor of Figueres' candidacy.[3]
As PUN was unable to participate, the only other candidacy alternate to Figueres was made by the Democratic Party, which nominated wealthy industrial magnate Fernando Castro Cervantes.[3] The three parties—PLN, PUN and Democratic—were all formerly united in opposition against the 1940s governments of Rafael Angel Calderón and his allies, who were viewed as having caused the civil war. Yet, after the war, such unification ceased.[3]
The losing sides in the civil war, mostly the Republicans (Calderón supporters) and the Communists, were unable to participate as the Republicans' party was disbanded and the Communist Party was constitutionally outlawed.[3] The Republicans were nonetheless allowed to participate in the legislative ballot with a provincial party in San José called the "Independent" Republican Party, and thereby gained some seats. As expected, Figueres won by a landslide victory.[3]
^Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p155 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
^Nohlen, p156
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