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Results by department

@PizzaKing13: Great work on adding the results by department table for the vice-presidency! A few questions:

Did Regalado receive 472 votes in both provinces where he was a candidate or is this a typo?
Do you know who the other candidate was?
Are the totals in the table from Diario Oficial or taken from the main results table? If the totals are from Diario Oficioal, the note about totals for Cuscatlán is a bit odd, as Ching has the same total as Diario Officio.
What happened with the figures from La Unión, Morazán or San Miguel? Are they in a different edition of Diario Oficial and you're still looking for them?

Cheers, Number 5 7 23:33, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Number 57: Thanks for your comments! If you go to the PDF for Diario Oficial's results, it's on page 161 on the bottom right corner (basically scrolling almost the entire way down). To answer your questions:

Santa Ana was a typo, it should be 432. I fixed it.
I read the entire article to see who the sixth candidate was but he is not mentioned. He might be mentioned somewhere else in the PDF or maybe even in some 1894 PDFs, but I can't alt-F these PDFs so finding out would be very tedious and might even be for nothing. And I could only find that the fifth candidate's last name was Hurtado; I couldn't interpolate across Wikipedia pages to figure out who it's supposed to be.
The total row in the table is from Ching while the department results are from Diario Oficial. Diario Oficial doesn't give a total, so I just put Ching's numbers at the bottom.
The results for 4 departments were not listed in the edition I found. The only other place they could be would be in the February 1895 PDF, but as I said earlier, I can't alt-F so it might be for nothing. It took me 30 minutes to find the results I put on the table in the first place and I didn't know if I would even find anything. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 23:53, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully I'll be writing more on the old Salvadoran elections since I have found funny stuff in Diario Oficial PDFs and Ching's book regarding these elections. 1907 is personally my favorite final results because of how absurd they are, while 1919 is the one I'm most looking forward to improving. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 23:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks for the quick response. I have pdf editor on another computer so might try OCRing the two in question to make them searchable and see if I can find anything. Number 5 7 23:57, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]