Country: | Chile |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 1910 Chilean presidential election |
Previous Year: | 1910 |
Next Election: | 1920 Chilean presidential election |
Next Year: | 1920 |
Election Date: | 25 June 1915 |
Turnout: | 81.28%[1] 28 pp |
1Blank: | Congress vote |
Image1: | Pdte Sanfuentes.jpg |
Party1: | Liberal Democratic Party (Chile) |
Alliance1: | Coalition |
Electoral Vote1: | 174 |
1Data1: | 77 |
Party2: | Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) |
Alliance2: | Liberal Alliance |
Electoral Vote2: | 173 |
1Data2: | 41 |
President | |
Before Election: | Ramón Barros Luco |
Before Party: | Liberal Party (Chile, 1849) |
After Election: | Juan Luis Sanfuentes |
After Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Chile) |
Presidential elections were held in Chile in 1915.[2] They were a bitter contest between Juan Luis Sanfuentes – a Coalition candidate of the Liberal Party and Conservative Party – and Javier Ángel Figueroa – supported by the Liberal Alliance parties. Sanfuentes beat Figueroa by a single vote in the electoral vote, with numerous allegations of fraud and electoral intervention. Due to the controversy, the National Congress made a contingent vote, which Sanfuentes won by 77 votes to 41.[3] [2]