Country: | Portugal |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 1919 Portuguese presidential election |
Previous Year: | 1919 |
Next Election: | 1925 Portuguese presidential election |
Next Year: | 1925 |
Election Date: | 6 August 1923 |
Candidate1: | Manuel Teixeira Gomes |
Party1: | Democratic Party (Portugal) |
Electoral Vote1: | 121 |
Percentage1: | 62.37% |
Candidate2: | Bernardino Machado |
Party2: | Nationalist Republican Party (Portugal) |
Electoral Vote2: | 5 |
Percentage2: | 2.58% |
President | |
Before Election: | António José de Almeida |
Before Party: | Evolutionist Party |
After Election: | Manuel Teixeira Gomes |
After Party: | Democratic Party (Portugal) |
Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 6 August 1923. The Congress of the Republic elected the president in Lisbon instead of the Portuguese people. However the new president Manuel Teixeira Gomes was elected In absentia, meaning that he wasn't present during the election.[1]
There were a total of five candidates. Manuel Teixeira Gomes won the election against his opponents and became the next President of the Republic.