1853 Costa Rican general election

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1853 Costa Rican general election
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← 1849 4 April 1853[1] 1859 →
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Nominee Juan Rafael Mora Porras
Party Liberal
Percentage 91%

President before election

Juan Rafael Mora Porras
Liberal

Elected President

Juan Rafael Mora Porras
Liberal

The Costa Rican general election of 1853 was held on April 4, 1853.[2] President Juan Rafael Mora Porras was re-elected as the sole candidate, who had been elected in 1849 to end the period of José María Castro Madriz.

According to the historian Ivan Molina from this date and for the next four decades the elections would play a secondary role in the selection of the president limited to a symbolic legitimating function. The presidents were chosen through a series of political alliances between the coffee bourgeoisie and the Army until the beginning of the Liberal State of Costa Rica.[2] On the second-degree election Mora received 83 electoral votes and 8 were null.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica (2008). "Historia de las elecciones presidenciales 1824-2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2018-12-19. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ a b Molina, Iván. "Elecciones y democracia en Costa Rica, 1885-1913" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2018-12-19. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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