Cuban general election, 1908

14 November 1908



Nominee	José Miguel Gómez	Mario García Menocal
Party	Liberal	Conservative
Popular vote	201,199	130,256
Percentage	60.70%	39.30%

President before election

Tomás Estrada Palma
Republican Party of Havana

Elected President

José Miguel Gómez
Liberal Party of Cuba

Cuba

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General elections were held in Cuba on 14 November 1908.^[1] José Miguel Gómez won the presidential election running under the Liberal Coalition banner (an alliance of the Historical Liberal Party and the Zayista Liberal Party), whilst the coalition emerged as the largest faction in the House of Representatives, winning 49 of the 83 seats. Voter turnout was 71.0%.^[2]

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
José Miguel Gómez	Liberal Coalition	201,199	60.7
Mario García Menocal	National Conservative Party	130,256	39.3
Invalid/blank votes		0	0
Total		331,455	100
Source: Nohlen

Senate

Party	%	Seats
Liberal Coalition¹		24
Invalid/blank votes	-	-
Total		24
Source: Nohlen

¹ Within the coalition, the Zayista Liberal Party took 11 seats, the Historical Liberal Party 5 seats and independents 8 seats.

House of Representatives

Party	%	Seats
Liberal Coalition		49
National Conservative Party		34
Invalid/blank votes	-	-
Total		83
Source: Nohlen

References

↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
↑ Nohlen, p204

Elections and referendums in Cuba

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Referendums	1976

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