Joaquín Balaguer

General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 1 June 1966.

[1] Following the 1963 coup which toppled elected president Juan Bosch of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, supporters of his constitutional reforms were excluded from the elections,[2] although Bosch himself contested them.

The result was a victory for Joaquín Balaguer of the Reformist Party, whilst his party also won the Congressional elections.

Voter turnout was 76%.