1882 Costa Rican general election

1882 Costa Rican general election

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Presidential election

Nominee Próspero Fernández Oreamuno Electoral vote 359 Percentage 99.17%

President before election Saturnino Lizano Gutiérrez Elected President Próspero Fernández Oreamuno

General elections were held in Costa Rica on 9 July 1882.^[1] They were the first after a long line of successive de facto governments following the coup against Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz by his former ally Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez. Vicente Herrera Zeledón, Costa Rica's first conservative president, was placed in Esquivel's place, but in practice he was a puppet of Guardia's authoritarian regime. After the brief presidency of Herrera who resigned using health reasons as excuse, the political elite appoints Guardia to replace him. However Guardia died in 1882 and elections were called, which were won by Freemason and liberal Próspero Fernández Oreamuno member of the Olympus Generation, an elite group of liberal intellectuals nicknamed as such due to their arrogance.^[2]

Fernández Oreamuno died in office on 12 March 1885, being replaced by the vice president and fellow Olympus member Bernardo Soto Alfaro, for the rest of his term.

Province	Fernández
San José Province	109
Alajuela	78
Cartago Province	66
Heredia	50
Guanacaste	28
Puntarenas	14
Limón	14
Total	359
Source: Salazar[3]