Cuban general election, 1940

14 July 1940



Nominee	Fulgencio Batista	Ramón Grau
Party	Independent	Authentic
Alliance	Democratic Socialist Coalition	Opposition Front
Popular vote	805,125	573,576
Percentage	56.70%	40.30%

President before election

Federico Laredo Brú
Republican Action

Elected President

Fulgencio Batista
Independent

Cuba

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General elections were held in Cuba on 14 July 1940.^[1] Fulgencio Batista won the presidential election running under the People's Socialist Coalition banner, whilst the Partido Auténtico emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 73.4%.^[2]

Results

President

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Fulgencio Batista	Democratic Socialist Coalition¹	805,125	56.7%
Ramón Grau San Martín	Opposition Front²	573,576	40.3%
Reynaldo Márquez	National Agrarian Party
Invalid/blank votes			-
Total		1,421,563	100
Source: Nohlen

¹ The Democratic Socialist Coalition (also known as the People's Socialist Coalition) was an alliance of the Communist Revolutionary Union, Progressive Action, the Democratic National Association, the Liberal Party and the Republican Democratic Party.

² The Opposition Front was an alliance of the ABC, the Partido Auténtico and Republican Action.

Senate

Party	%	Seats	+/-
Democratic Socialist Coalition^[3]		22	New
Opposition Front		14	New
Invalid/blank votes	-	-	-
Total		36	0
Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

Party	%	Seats	+/-
Partido Auténtico		34	New
Liberal Party		23	-11
Republican Democratic Party		22	New
Nationalist Union		21	-9
Democratic National Association		18	-52
Republican Action		16	-9
ABC		12	New
Communist Revolutionary Union		10	New
Others		6	-
Invalid/blank votes	-	-	-
Total		162	0
Source: Nohlen

References

↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
↑ Nohlen, p204
↑ http://libraries.ucsd.edu/locations/sshl/resources/featured-collections/latin-american-elections-statistics/cuba/elections-and-events-19351951.html

Elections and referendums in Cuba

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