1906 Costa Rican general election
20–22 August 1905 (popular vote)
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487 members of the Electoral College 244 votes needed to win | ||||||||||||||||||||
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15 of the 32 seats in the Constitutional Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 20–22 August 1905 to elect the president and half of the Constitutional Congress. Incumbent president Ascensión Esquivel was ineligible for a second term, endorsing National Party candidate Cleto González Víquez.
The first round of voting was relatively competitive for the period, with four prominent figures contesting the election against the government-backed candidate: former Secretary of the Interior Máximo Fernández Alvarado, former Secretary of the Interior and Police Tobías Zúñiga Castro, former president Bernardo Soto Alfaro, and former Secretary of Justice and Foreign Affairs Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias. Political differences among the candidates were largely personal rather than ideological, as all but Gutiérrez broadly adhered to liberal political positions.