1930 Colombian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 9 February 1930.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p305 The result was a victory for Enrique Olaya Herrera of the Colombian Liberal Party, Liberal Party, who received 44.9% of the vote. He took office on 7 August. It was the first time since direct presidential elections were introduced in 1914 that a Colombian Conservative Party, Conservative Party candidate had not won.Nohlen, pp349–350 Results References

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Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is th ...
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