Costa Rican general election, 1970
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In green provinces won by Figueres
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José Joaquín Trejos Fernández
National Unification
José Figueres
National Liberation
General elections were held in Costa Rica on February 1, 1970.José Figueres Ferrer of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 83.3%.
On June 25, 1969 the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica reform the Constitution outlawing presidential reelection, but as any legal reform is retroactive, all previous presidents could be candidates one more time. Two former presidents José Figueres Ferrer and Mario Echandi Jiménez were the two main candidates in the election.
Echandi was nominated by then ruling party National Unification, a right-wing conservative party made out of the merge of the Republicans (Calderonistas) and the National Union (Ulatistas). But the union was starting to break and Ulate presented a separated list for Congress with his Party (unsuccessfully). In the main opposition force and by then dominant-party PLN, the nominee was the historical leader and twice president before José Figueres. Figueres was selected after a primary election (or National Convention as their known in Costa Rica) in which he defeated then Congressman and former Secretary General of the party, Rodrigo Carazo. The convention was particularly harsh and after the results Figueres did not included any of Carazo supporters in power positions (as was a traditional courtesy), something that future president Carazo resented and made him eventually leave the party.
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