Talk:1950 Uruguayan general election

A verifiable source can't be located, but the figures are incorrectly listed. The Colorado Party's three candidates had the most combined votes overall, but Andres Martinez Trueba had more votes than second-place finisher Cesar Mayo Gutierrez, and became the nation's president. Reports at the time indicated that it was a close race between them on the second criterion for picking the winner (i.e., first place finisher among the party whose presidential candidates garnered the most combined votes), and that Martinez Trueba had a little less than 6,000 votes more than Mayo Gutierrez. For that reason, the figures of "195,630" for Mayo and "162,262" for Martinez don't make sense, and the rest of the unverifiable figures are suspect as well. Mandsford 16:15, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I suspect you are correct. The Nohlen book has the same totals for the PC and PN candidates that your figures do, but notes that the sum of the individual figures for the candidates is different. This looks like the individual totals in the book may be wrong. It would be good to find a source that confirms this though. Number   5  7  21:23, 15 September 2015 (UTC)


 * They're hard to track down-- I substituted the figures from the Spanish-language Wikipedia, but, as with the English article sources, the links are all dead. The Uruguayan electoral system at the time was interesting, essentially allowing the party leader to be chosen by popular vote after determining which party would be in power.  Thank you for the response.  Mandsford 17:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)