1915 Chilean presidential election

Ramón Barros Luco Liberal Juan Luis Sanfuentes Liberal Democratic Presidential elections were held in Chile in 1915.

[2] They were a bitter contest between Juan Luis Sanfuentes – a Coalition candidate of the Liberal Party and Conservative Party – and Javier Ángel Figueroa – supported by the Liberal Alliance parties.

Sanfuentes beat Figueroa by a single vote in the electoral vote, with numerous allegations of fraud and electoral intervention.

Due to the controversy, the National Congress made a contingent vote, which Sanfuentes won by 77 votes to 41.

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