1936 Cuban general election

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10 January 1936

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Presidential election


Nominee	Miguel Mariano Gómez	Mario García Menocal
Party	Tripartite Coalition	CND
Popular vote	343,289	256,606

President before election

José Agripino Barnet
Liberal

Elected President

Miguel Mariano Gómez
Tripartite Coalition

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General elections were held in Cuba on 10 January 1936.^[1]^[2] Miguel Mariano Gómez of the Tripartite Coalition (an alliance of the Liberal Party, the Nationalist Union and Republican Action) won the presidential election, whilst the Coalition also emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives. The elections were the first in which women could vote,^[3] and voter turnout was 67.1%.

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Results

President


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Miguel Mariano Gómez	Tripartite Coalition (PL–UN–AR)	343,289
	Mario García Menocal	Democratic National Association	256,606
Total

Total votes			1,123,848	–
Registered voters/turnout			1,675,813	67.06
Source: Nohlen

Senate


Party or alliance			Seats
	Tripartite Coalition	Liberal Party of Cuba	10
		Nationalist Union	9
		Republican Action	5
	Democratic National Association		12
Total			36

Source: Nohlen

House of Representatives

Seven women were elected to the House of Representatives – Rosa Anders Causse, María Caro Más, María Gómez Carbonell, María Antonia Quintana Herrero, Balbina Remedios, Herminia Rodríguez Fernández and Consuelo Vázquez Bello – becoming the country's first Congresswomen.^[3]^[4]


Party or alliance			Seats
	Tripartite Coalition	Liberal Party of Cuba	35
		Nationalist Union	30
		Republican Action	25
	Democratic National Association		70
	Cuban Unionist Party		2
Total			162

Source: Nohlen

References

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p197 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
^ Fitzgibbon, Russell H.; Healey, H. Max (1936). "The Cuban Elections of 1936". American Political Science Review. 30 (4): 724–735. doi:10.2307/1947948. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1947948. S2CID 146976235.
^ ^a ^b Elections and Events 1935-1951 The Library, UC San Diego
^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236

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