Costa Rican general election, 1966

Costa Rican general election, 1966

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Turnout	81%
Nominee José Trejos Daniel Oduber Party National Unification National Liberation Home state San José San José Popular vote 222,810 218,590 Percentage 50% 49%
In green provinces won by Oduber, blue Trejos
President before election Francisco Orlich National Liberation Elected President José Trejos National Unification

Francisco Orlich
National Liberation

José Trejos
National Unification

General elections were held in Costa Rica on February 6, 1966.José Joaquín Trejos Fernández of the National Unification Party won the presidential election, whilst the National Liberation Party won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 81.4%.

These were very divisive elections as they had only two candidates. On one hand the government party PLN nominated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Daniel Oduber Quirós, whilst all the right-wing opposition join forces and former enemies Rafael Calderón and his National Republican Party (Social Christian) merge with Otilio Ulate’s National Union (Liberal-Conservative) in the National Unification Coalition. Calderón and Ulate were enemies during the 1948 Civil War but put aside their differences and they agree that none of them will be candidate.