Mexico's dilemma/Appendix E
APPENDIX E
Presidential election
The Mexican Review, published at Washington, printed the following statement regarding the election which was held after the adoption of the new Constitution.
Herewith are given the complete returns of the Presidential election held on March 11th, canvassed by Congress and announced as the official figures.
In every instance the ballots were blank, a space being left for the voter to inscribe the name of his favourite candidate. As will be seen, several thousand votes were cast for others than President Carranza, Generals Gonzales and Obregon leading in this respect. Many others received smaller numbers of votes, including General Alvarado and other prominent revolutionary leaders.
The figures follow on page 280.
CARRANZA OFFICIALLY DECLARED PRESIDENT
After canvassing the returns of the election from the various States, the Chamber of Deputies I adopted a resolution in the following words,
| States | Carranza | Gonzalez | Obregon |
| Aguascalientes | 7,394 | 28 | 17 |
| Colima | 4,874 | 27 | 19 |
| Coahuila | 26,841 | 52 | 219 |
| Campeche | 2,061 | 6 | 3 |
| Chihuahua | 5,883 | 2 | 57 |
| Chiapas | 14,277 | 3 | … |
| Durango | 6,816 | 17 | 202 |
| Guanajuato | 91,226 | 3,328 | 708 |
| Guerrero | 9,825 | … | … |
| Jalisco | 34,135 | 28 | 52 |
| Mexico | 52,513 | 1,676 | 620 |
| Michoacan | 33,627 | 1,615 | 120 |
| Nuevo León | 33,166 | 8 | 10 |
| Oaxaca | 60,964 | 138 | 73 |
| Puebla | 57,519 | 1,215 | 193 |
| Querétaro | 14,754 | 491 | 111 |
| S. L. Potosí | 22,638 | 71 | 51 |
| Sinaloa | 12,710 | 24 | 169 |
| Tabasco | 6,163 | 2 | 5 |
| Hidalgo | 19,949 | 70 | 32 |
| Tlaxcala | 21,724 | 176 | 53 |
| Yucatan | 25,717 | 12 | 14 |
| Zacatecas | 20,732 | 67 | 66 |
| Vera Cruz | 39,455 | 276 | 172 |
| Sonora | 20,667 | 6 | 367 |
| Tepic | 8,856 | 2 | 9 |
| Baja California | 3,056 | … | 25 |
| Quintana Roo | 345 | 12 | 2 |
| Distrito Federal | 70,003 | 1,773 | 553 |
| ——— | ——— | ——— | |
| Totals | 797,305 | 11,615 | 4,008 |
The total number of votes cast was 812,928.
announcing officially that in the election held on March 11th the Citizen Venustiano Carranza received 797,305 votes, against various other candidates with a much inferior number of ballots. The resolution was unanimously approved. It reads as follows:
The Chamber of Deputies of the Twenty-seventh Congress of the Republic of Mexico, constituted in an Electoral College and in use of the rights and faculties conferred upon them by Section I of Article 74 of the Political Constitution of the Republic, have decreed, after a careful examination of the electoral computations verified on the second Sunday of March of this year:
Article I—The Citizen Venustiano Carranza is declared President for the term of four years beginning from December of 1916 until November of 1920, in virtue of having obtained an absolute majority of votes in the election.
Article II—In virtue of this, the Citizen Venustiano Carranza is cited to appear on May the first before the Chamber of Deputies, and with all the formalities of the law take the oath of office as President of the Republic.
Chamber of Deputies, Mexico, April 26, 1916.
Eduardo Hay, President.
Jesus Lopez Lira, Secretary.
Filomeno Mata, Second Secretary.