Honduran general election, 1924

A general election was held in Honduras on 28–30 December 1924. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress.

After a destructive three-cornered civil war in 1924, “the National Party of Honduras nominated Miguel Paz Barahona for president. The Liberal Party of Honduras, after some debate, refused to nominate a candidate”.^[1]

“Presidential and congressional elections in 1924 led to the single candidacy of Miguel Paz Barahona, who won the presidency with about 99 percent of the vote. … Paz Barahona became president primarily because U.S. diplomats stressed the 1923 General Treaty of Peace and Amnity accords and opposed Tiburcio Carías Andino’s candidacy. In fact the period of Paz Barahona’s term represented the first time in 20th-century Honduran history that a sitting president did not enjoy full control over the official policy of his party”.^[2]

“Cuyamel Fruit Company was backing the Liberals while United Fruit was betting on the Nationalist horse. President Paz Barahona, however, was estranged from the bulk of his party and soon found himself in Cuyamel Fruit Company’s harness”.^[3]

Presidential election results^[4]

Legislative election

References

Bibliography

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Political handbook of the world 1928. New York, 1929.

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See also: Elections in the Federal Republic of Central America