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Original ballot. Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1970. Salvador Allende of the Popular Unity alliance won a narrow plurality in a race against independent Jorge Alessandri and Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic, before having his victory confirmed by a contingent election after the Christian Democrats voted in favour of his candidacy.
Specifically, the winners of the four presidential elections prior to Allende's 1970 election had won with: 56.1% (the 1964 election of Frei), 31.6% (the 1958 election of Alessandri), 46.8% (the 1952 election of Ibáñez) and 40.2% (the 1946 election of Gonzalez Videla). The legality of the 1970 election itself is not in dispute. [citation needed]
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens [A] (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean socialist politician [4] [5] who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. [6] As a socialist committed to democracy, [7] [8] he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin ...
President of the First Government Junta. Died in office. — Juan Martínez de Rozas (1759–1813) 27 February 1811 2 April 1811 Interim President of the First Government Junta. — Fernando Márquez de la Plata (1740–1818) 2 April 1811 4 July 1811 President of the First Government Junta. — Juan Antonio Ovalle (1750–1819) 4 July 1811 20 ...
The Presidential Republic (Spanish: República Presidencial) is the period in the history of Chile spanning from the approval of the 1925 Constitution on 18 September 1925, under the government of Arturo Alessandri Palma, to the overthrow of the Popular Unity government headed by the President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973.
The timeline shows changes, both personal or title, of the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Chile from 18 September 1810 until today, regardless of whether president, vice-president, supreme director, interim or junta.
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The Province Prefect informed President Allende of the Navy's actions; immediately, the president went to the presidential palace (La Moneda) with his bodyguards, the "Group of Personal Friends" (GAP). [85] By 8:00 a.m., the Army had closed most radio and television stations in Santiago city, one of the first acts of the coup.