1876 Costa Rican general election
1–3 March 1876 (popular vote)
2 April 1876 (electoral college) | |||||||||||||||||
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Presidential election | |||||||||||||||||
322 members of the Electoral College 162 votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||
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13 of the 32 seats in the Constitutional Congress | |||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 1–3 March 1876 to elect the president and half of the Constitutional Congress. Incumbent president Tomás Guardia was constitutionally ineligible to seek a second consecutive term and endorsed congressman Aniceto Esquivel as his successor.
Esquivel became the first head of state since the re-election of Juan Mora Fernández in 1829 to be elected unanimously, without any dissenting electoral votes.