Costa Rican general election, 1940

Costa Rican general election, 1940

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Turnout	11,2559
Nominee Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Manuel Mora Valverde Virgilio Salazar Leiva Party National Republican People's Vanguard Guanacastecan Brotherhood Home state San José San José Guanacaste Popular vote 82173 44435 Percentage 84.5% 9.8% 5.7%
President before election León Cortés Castro National Republican Elected President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia National Republican

León Cortés Castro
National Republican

Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia
National Republican

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 11 February 1940.Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia of the Independent National Republican Party won the presidential election. Voter turnout was 80.8% in the presidential election and 65.6% in the parliamentary election.

Since 1938, two tendencies had begun to emerge in the ranks of the Republican Party, one revolving around the popular ex president Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno and another around the young doctor and charismatic politician Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. Jiménez, however, an old man, would gradually leave power and influence, and the "Jimenismo" lost ground to Calderonism, which also has full support from the government chaired by León Cortés Castro who pressures Jiménez into retirement.

To prevent a triumph of the Calderonismo a coalition was tried between the Communist Party, a faction of the jimenismo and the Social Democratic Guanacastecan Brotherhood called National Democratic Alliance, nevertheless when Jiménez declines to be candidate this is broken so the parties that integrate it ran separately. During the National Republican Convention Calderón is selected presidential nominee and wins the elections.

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