General elections were held in Peru on 11 October 1931 to elect the President and a Constitutional Congress.

Dieter Nohlen Dieter Nohlen (born 6 November 1939) is a German academic and political scientist. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. An expe ...

(2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p454 The result was a victory for Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro of the Revolutionary Union, who received 50.8% of the vote.Nohlen, p470

Results

President

Sanchez Cerro was also supported by the Nationalist Social Party, Osores was supported by the Constitutional Party, the Labourist Party and the National Coalition Party, while Jara y Ureta was supported by the

Decentralist Party Decentralist Party (in Spanish: ''Partido Descentralista'') was a political party in Peru. Its president was Francisco Tamayo. The party's ideology centered around the involvement of citizen and civil society in the political sphere, to streng ...

and

Popular Union Popular Union may refer to: *Popular Union of Equatorial Guinea * Union populaire française (France) * Popular Union Party (Panama) * Popular Union (Peru) * Union populaire (Quebec) * Popular Union for the Republic (Togo) Other uses include: *Demo ...

.Elecciones parlamentarias en el Perú (1931-2011)
Government of Peru

Constitutional Congress

Twelve elected members of the Congress later had their election declared invalid, including eight from the

APRA APRA or Apra may refer to: Places *Apra, Punjab, a census town city in Jalandhar District of Punjab, India * Apra Harbor, the main port of Guam Acronyms * American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana), a Peruvi ...

, two independents and one each from the

National Coalition The National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces ( ar, الائتلاف الوطني لقوى الثورة والمعارضة السورية), commonly named the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) ( ar, الائتلاف الو ...

and Revolutionary Union.

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