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The Closeness of Elections in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Martin C. Needler
Martin C. Needler*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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One of the curious features of recent Latin American politics has been the closeness of the results of presidential elections. As shown by tables 1 and 2, the median gap between the two principal contenders in presidential elections taking place around 1970 was 4.93 percent, compared to 15.39 percent in elections taking place around 1950. Over half of the 1970 elections resulted in a smaller winning margin than the smallest such margin around 1950.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 1977 , pp. 115 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. Alfred Stepan, The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), p. 80.

2. See Martin C. Needler, “Peru since the Coup d'Etat,” The World Today, February 1963.

3. Kenneth Ruddle and Philip Gillette, eds., Latin American Political Statistics (Los Angeles: Latin American Center, UCLA, September 1972), p. 80.

4. Ibid., p. 98.

5. See Ronald H. McDonald, “Electoral Fraud and Regime Controls in Latin America,” Western Political Quarterly 25, no. 1 (March 1972).