Presidential elections were held in Guatemala on 17 January 1916. For the second successive election, Manuel Estrada Cabrera was re-elected unopposed.[1][2] Despite there only being one candidate, voters were rounded up by the military and taken to polling stations, where they could only vote for Cabrera.[3] Cabrera assumed the presidency on 15 March 1911.
^Calvert, Peter (1985) Guatemala : a nation in turmoil Boulder: Westview Pres p69
^Information Annual, 1916: A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events. 1917, p297
^Munro, Dana G (1967) The five republics of Central America New York: Russell & Russell, pp55-56
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