José María Montealegre José María Montealegre General elections were held in Costa Rica on 8 April 1860.

[1] They were held one year after the previous elections in which Juan Rafael Mora Porras was re-elected.

Mora was deposed months after his reelection and one of the coup leaders, José María Montealegre Fernández, assumed power.

Montealegre immediately called for elections and a Constituent Assembly.

The Moristas postulated Manuel Mora Fernández, relative of Juan Rafael, without success.