Gabriel González Videla Radical Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Independent Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1952.

[1] The result was a victory for Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who ran as an independent.

His government would have become the fourth consecutive Radical administration, since Pedro Aguirre Cerda was elected president.

Allende, a senator, was the candidate of the Socialist Party, and was running for president for the first time.

He was Finance Minister under the administration of Juan Antonio Ríos.