Nicaraguan general election, 1916

A general elections were held in Nicaragua to elect a President, half of the Deputies and 1/3 of the Senators on 6 October 1916.

Although the United States offered to assist President Adolfo Díaz to hold free elections in 1916, this offer was rejected. A verbal promise was obtained from President Adolfo Díaz, however, that the elections would be free. On 15 January 1916 the Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, had told the Conservative candidate Emiliano Chamorro Vargas that ‘the United States would view his candidacy with great pleasure’.

The liberals boycotted the 1916 election, and conservative Emiliano Chamorro Vargas was elected with no opposition.