1967 Salvadoran presidential election

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 5 March 1967.[2] The result was a victory for Fidel Sánchez Hernández of the Party of National Conciliation, who won 54.4 percent of the vote.

1967 Salvadoran presidential election

5 March 1967
 
Nominee Fidel Sánchez Hernández Abraham Rodríguez Portillo
Party PCN PDC
Home state San Salvador
Popular vote 267,447 106,358
Percentage 54.37% 21.62%

 
Nominee Fabio Castillo Figueroa Álvaro Magaña
Party PAR PPS
Home state Ahuachapán
Popular vote 70,978 47,111
Percentage 14.43% 9.58%

President before election

Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo
PCN

Elected President

Fidel Sánchez Hernández
PCN

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Results

Candidate Party Votes %
Fidel Sánchez HernándezNational Coalition Party267,44754.37
Abraham Rodríguez PortilloChristian Democratic Party106,35821.62
Fabio Castillo FigueroaRenovated Action Party70,97814.43
Alvaro MagañaSalvadoran Popular Party47,1119.58
Invalid/blank votes-
Total491,894100
Source: Nohlen
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gollark: It could just be that the extremes are more visible.
gollark: Apparently, because some unspecified event had occurred two years in a row at the same time for them (???) and because it's "comforting".
gollark: Also people just not caring about truth for some reason. A mere 1.8ish hours ago someone was telling me about why they believed in astrology.
gollark: That seems like more of an argument for mitigating the harms of some service things than just banning somewhat harmful ones entirely.

References

  1. Luis Eliezer Garcia. "Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de El Salvador » Autoridades » Titulares". Rree.gob.sv. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  2. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p276 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

Bibliography

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  • Benítez Manaut, Raúl. "El Salvador: un equilibrio imperfecto entre los votos y las botas." Secuencia 17:71-92 (mayo-agosto de 1990).
  • Eguizábal, Cristina. "El Salvador: elecciones sin democracia." Polemica (Costa Rica) 14/15:16-33 (marzo-junio 1984). 1984.
  • Kantor, Harry. Patterns of politics and political systems in Latin America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. 1969.
  • Montgomery, Tommie Sue. 1995. Revolution in El Salvador: from civil strife to civil peace. Boulder: Westview.
  • Political Handbook of the world, 1967. New York, 1968.
  • Webre, Stephen. José Napoleón Duarte and the Christian Democratic Party in Salvadoran Politics 1960-1972. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1979.
  • Williams, Philip J. and Knut Walter. Militarization and demilitarization in El Salvador's transition to democracy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997.
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