1948 Costa Rican general election

1948 Costa Rican general election
8 February 1948
Presidential election
 
Nominee Otilio Ulate Rafael Calderón
Party PUN PRN
Alliance National Opposition Victory Bloc
Popular vote 54,931 44,438
Percentage 55.28% 44.72%
Results by province
President before election

Teodoro Picado
PRN

Elected President

Otilio Ulate
PUN

Parliamentary election
23 of the 46 seats in the Constitutional Congress
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PUN Otilio Ulate Blanco 42.80 9 New
PRN Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia 42.57 9 −3
PVP Manuel Mora Valverde 12.83 5 +3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by province

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 February 1948. Otilio Ulate Blanco of the National Union Party won the presidential race with 55% of the vote, defeating former president Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia of the ruling National Republican Party, which had governed since 1932. Alleging electoral fraud, Calderón’s supporters in Congress annulled the results, triggering the six-week Costa Rican Civil War later that year.

Following the conflict, the parliamentary election results were also annulled, and José Figueres Ferrer assumed power as head of the Founding Junta of the Second Republic, a provisional government that ruled for 18 months before transferring authority to Ulate Blanco.

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