1911 Salvadoran presidential election

Fernando Figueroa Liberal/Military Manuel Enrique Araujo Liberal Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1911.

[2] Araujo defeated General Luis Alonso Barahona[3] and Doctor Esteban Castro.

[5] President Fernando Figueroa selected Araujo as his successor and heavily rigged the election in his favor.

[6] Thomas Dabney, the United States interim chargé d'affaires to El Salvador, wrote that "popular suffrage is but a fiction [...] That the official candidate will be elected in 1911, is according to general opinion, a foregone conclusion".

[7] The Diario Oficial newspaper reported that the 182,964 votes in favor Araujo "genuinely representated" ("genuinamente representado") the will of the people.