1912 Creeperian general election

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1912 Creeperian general election

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All 235 seats of the Parliament
118 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Antonio Sáenz Heredia Inhué Ordóñez Yepes Édgar Cazalla Beldad
Party Catholic Royalist National Liberal Socialist
Alliance CCC CSP CSP
Leader's seat Ciudad Nuevo Xichútepa San Miguel del Sur Puerto Senvar
Last election 93 90 21
Seats won 119 81 20
Seat change Increase 26 Decrease 9 Decrease 1
Popular vote 2,796,402 1,385,503 1,043,026
Percentage 44.19% 21.89% 16.48%

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Leader Joaquín Noboa Chicote Joel Lacasa Campos José Rosales Rivera
Party National Conservative Social Communist National Democratic
Alliance CCC CSP CSP
Leader's seat Apopa Sechakan Yusjaras
Last election 19 4 1
Seats won 12 2 1
Seat change Decrease 7 Decrease 2 Steady 0
Popular vote 864,584 100,328 62,083
Percentage 13.66% 1.59% 0.98%

Prime Minister before election

Inhué Ordóñez Yepes
National Liberal Party

Elected Prime Minister

Antonio Sáenz Heredia
Catholic Royalist Party

The 1912 Creeperian general election occurred on Wednesday, 1 October 1912, in accordance with the constitution of the State of Creeperopolis. All 100 seats of the parliament and all 19 captain generals (governors of departments).

The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Creeperian Conservative Coalition (CCC), which won a 70 seat supermajority. The election has since been widely believed to have been rigged in favor of the conservatives, being effectively denounced as fraudulent by historians and political scientists. Evidence suggested that hundreds of thousands of votes for the National Liberal Party (PLN), the Creeperian Socialist Party (PSC), and the Creeperian Social Communist Party (PCSC), were either counted as a vote for the Catholic Royalist Party (PRC) and the National Conservative Party (PCN) instead, were labeled as "blank" or "invalid," or simply not counted at all.

The outcome of the election resulted in widespread protests against Antonio Sáenz Heredia, the elected prime minister, demanding his resignation and for new elections. The protests lasted around three months with Sáenz Heredia suppressing protests against his government with the Civil Police, the Creeperian Army, and the Falange Creeperiano, the paramilitary wing of the PRC. Sáenz Heredia remained as prime minister for his second term until 1917.

The Creeperian Initiative has subsequently declared that the results of the election were legitimate in 1953. Until his death in 1957, Sáenz Heredia continued to deny any allegations of rigging the election.

Background

Electoral system

The 1912 general election was conducted with a first-past-the-post voting system, with the candidate with the most votes winning their respective election. The voting system applied to all elections.

Results

Parliamentary results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Catholic Royalist Party2,796,40244.19119+26
National Liberal Party1,385,50321.8981–9
Creeperian Socialist Party1,043,02616.4820–1
National Conservative Party864,58413.6612–7
Creeperian Social Communist Party100,3281.592–2
National Democratic Party62,0830.9810
Renovated Conservative Party42,0480.660–1
Independents21,0480.330–1
Senvarian Autonomous Party12,3380.1900
Creeperian Fascist League1,4800.020New
Total6,328,840100.00235+5
Registered voters/turnout9,560,338
Source: Supreme Electoral Court

Departmental results

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Department Captain general before election Elected captain general election
Abdan José Sanjurjo Mena (PSC) Víctor Aguirre Quesada (PCN)
Adolfosburg Orlando Dutarte Ureña (PSC) Alberto Galván Figueroa (PLN)
Helam Alfonso Torres León (PLN) Carlos Regalado Videla (PCN)
Jakiz Emmanuel Villanova Zaldívar (PSC) Jaime Navarro Escalón (PCN)
La'Libertad Vicente Salinas Henríquez (PLN) Vicente Salinas Henríquez (PLN)
La'Unión Carlos Viareal Ramírez (PLN) Evelio Guzmán López (PCN)
Rakeo Domingo Chamorro Castellón (PCN) Jorge Montt Mendoza (PRC)
Salvador Guillermo Valdéz Obregón (PRC) Guillermo Valdéz Obregón (PRC)
San Carlos Islands Antonio Gutiérrez Avendaño (PRC) Antonio Gutiérrez Avendaño (PRC)
San Luís Miguel Nores Alvarenga (PLN) Javíer Flores Molina (PRC)
San Miguel Mario Tejón Linares (PLN) Mario Tejón Linares (PLN)
San Pedro Fabián Mejía Serrano (PSC) Fabián Mejía Serrano (PSC)
Xichútepa Calixto Jerez Pérez (PRC) Calixto Jerez Pérez (PRC)
San Salvador Antonio Figueroa Heredia (PLN) Antonio Guerrero Menéndez (PRC)
San Salvador del Norte Rodrigo Herrera Jalisco (PRC) Rodrigo Herrera Jalisco (PRC)
Santa Ana Norberto Yagüe Zapata (PLN) Leonardo Huerta Juárez (PRC)
Senvar José Videla Buenaventura (PSC) José Videla Buenaventura (PSC)
Sonsatepan Eduardo Molina Castro (PCSC) Óscar Casanova Fuentes (PLN)
Zapatista Miguel Rosales Durán (PSC) Juan Morales Quijada (PSC)

Controversy

See also