General elections were held in

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on 28–30 December 1924.

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was elected president and his National Party won all but one of the seats in Congress.

Background

National Party candidate

Tiburcio Carías Andino Tiburcio Carías Andino (5 March 1876 – 23 December 1969) was a Honduran politician and military officer with the rank of Major General. Thirty-eighth president of the Republic of Honduras, constitutional period from 1924 and thereafter in th ...

emerged as the leading candidate in the October 1923 presidential elections with 47% of the vote, but failed to win a majority, meaning Congress would have to confirm the winner. Congress, which was controlled by liberals, refused to confirm Carías as the winner. In a Congress vote, 18 voted for

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(who had finished third in the popular vote), 15 for Carías and nine for the runner-up

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. This led to a two-month civil war starting in February, referred to as the War of Revindication. As a result, American marines were sent into

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to restore peace.Elections and Events 1900-1924
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to hold power until fresh elections were held. Participants in the civil war were banned from contesting the presidential election. A new constitution was subsequently drafted and promulgated in September. It introduced residency requirements for Congressional candidates and required presidential candidates to be aged between 30 and 65.

Presidential candidates

While

was nominated as the National Party candidate, with the United States objecting to the candidacy of

, who had won the 1923 elections. The

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did not put forward a candidate.Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 1. xford .a.: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. Pp.414.

Results

President

Congress

References

Bibliography

*Argueta, Mario. Tiburcio Carías: anatomía de una época, 1923-1948. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras. 1989. *Bardales B., Rafael. Historia del Partido Nacional de Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Servicopiax Editores. 1980. *Political handbook of the world 1928. New York, 1929. *Stokes, William S. Honduras: an area study in government. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1950. {{Honduran elections Elections in Honduras

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