1931 Salvadoran presidential election

1931 Salvadoran presidential election
11–13 January 1931 (popular vote)
12 February 1931 (legislative vote)
Registered392,383
 
Candidate Arturo Araujo Alberto Gómez Zárate Enrique Córdova
Party Laborist Patriotic Action National Development
Popular vote 106,777 64,280 34,499
Percentage 46.65% 28.09% 15.07%
Legislative vote 42 0 0
President before election

Pío Romero Bosque
Independent

Elected President

Arturo Araujo
Laborist

Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in 1931, with a popular vote taking place alongside concurrent legislative elections from 11 to 13 January 1931. Observers described the 1931 election as El Salvador's first free and fair election.

None of the five candidates won an absolute majority, leading to the Legislative Assembly unanimously electing Arturo Araujo of the Salvadoran Laborist Party (PLS), who won a plurality in the popular election, as El Salvador's next president on 12 February 1931.

The legislature also unanimously elected Brigadier General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of the National Republican Party (PNR), who supported Araujo's campaign, as vice president. Araujo was overthrown in December 1931 and Martínez became president, ruling until 1944.

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