General elections were held in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
on 7 December 1919.
[Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p155 ] Julio Acosta García
Julio Acosta García (23 May 1872 – 6 July 1954) served as 24th President of Costa Rica from 1920 to 1924.
Early life
Rafael Julio del Rosario Acosta García was born on 23 May 1872 in San Ramón, Alajuela, Costa Rica to Jesús de la Rosa Ga ...
of the
Constitutional Party won the presidential election, whilst the party also won the parliamentary election, in which they received 74.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 57.8% in the presidential election and 42.1% in the parliamentary election.
[Nohlen, p156]
These elections were held on December 7, 1919 after dictator
Federico Tinoco
General José Federico Alberto de Jesús Tinoco Granados (21 November 1868 – 7 September 1931) was a politician, soldier, and the Dictator of Costa Rica from 1917 to 1919.
Biography
Tinoco was born in 1868. On 5 June 1898 in San José, ...
was deposed and exiled. The winning candidate Acosta, former chancellor of the government overthrown by Tinoco, had been precisely one of his fierce opponents and leader of armed antitinoquist groups which earned him great popularity, this despite the fact that his affiliation as a
Freemason
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
and
Theosophist were controversial, at least among some sectors of the
Church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
.
The tinoquismo grouped around the recently founded
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
and nominates Dr. José Maria Soto Alfaro, denoted tinoquista, twice deputy and brother of former president
Bernardo Soto Alfaro
Ramón Bernardo Soto Alfaro (12 February 1854 – 28 January 1931) was President of Costa Rica from 1885 to 1889.
He took office when his father-in-law, President Próspero Fernández, died in office in 1885, and in a gesture of national conc ...
. Soto was also the founder of the so-called «Club 27 de Enero» whose name commemorated the
Tinoquista coup on January 27, 1917 that overthrew
González Flores and was one of the supporters of the Tinoquista regime.
Results
President
By province
Parliament
References
{{Costa Rican elections
1919 elections in Central America
1919 in Costa Rica
Elections in Costa Rica