1962 Peruvian general election
Presidential election
General elections were held in Peru on 10 June 1962 to elect the President and both houses of Congress .[ 1] Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre of the Peruvian Aprista Party won the presidential election with 33% of the vote. However, this was below the constitutional requirement of one-third of the vote.[ 2]
The military, who were opposed to Haya, claimed that electoral fraud had been carried out in some districts, and the results were later annulled following a military coup on 18 July led by Ricardo Pérez Godoy .[ 1] [ 3] [ 4]
Candidate Party Votes % Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre American Popular Revolutionary Alliance 557,007 32.97 Fernando Belaúnde Terry Popular Action 544,180 32.21 Manuel A. Odría Odriist National Union 480,378 28.43 Héctor Cornejo Chávez Christian Democrat Party 48,792 2.89 César Pando Egúsquiza [es ] National Liberation Front 33,341 1.97 Luciano Castillo Colonna Socialist Party 16,658 0.99 Alberto Ruiz Eldredge [es ] Progressive Social Movement 9,202 0.54 Total 1,689,558 100.00 Valid votes 1,689,558 85.80 Invalid/blank votes 279,730 14.20 Total votes 1,969,288 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 2,221,288 88.66 Source: Nohlen
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^ a b Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II , p454 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3 ^ Richard J. Walter (2010) Peru and the United States, 1960-1975: How Their Ambassadors Managed Foreign Relations in a Turbulent Era Penn State Press, p17
^ Walter, p18
^ Cotler, Julio (1991), Bethell, Leslie (ed.), "Peru since 1960" , The Cambridge History of Latin America: Volume 8: Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America , vol. 8, Cambridge University Press, pp. 451– 508, doi :10.1017/chol9780521266529.009 , ISBN 978-0-521-26652-9
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