Midterm parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 1 November 1914 in order to fill half the seats in the House of Representatives,Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p203 as well as a single seat in the Senate. The National Conservative Party was the biggest winner, taking 22 of the 49 House seats and the sole Senate seat.

Results House of Representatives

Candidates for Representatives of La Habana Province National Conservative Party (NCP)

Gustavo Pino Raul de Cardenas (Incumbent) Miguel Coyula (Incumbent) Alfredo Betancourt Manduley Federico G. Morales (Incumbent) Felipe Gonzalez Sarrain (Incumbent) Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade

Liberal Party of Cuba (LPC)

Eugenio L. Azpiazo Generoso Campos Marquetti Juan Gualberto Gómez Benito Lagueruela Carlos Guas Pagueras

Unionist Liberal Party (ULP)

Manuel Varona Suárez Miguel Maniano Gómez Enrique Roig (Incumbent)

Cuban National Party (CNP)

José d'Estrampes

Candidates for Representatives of Pinar del Rio Province +National Conservative PartyCandidates*StatusVotes**Wifredo Fernández Vega36,940Francisco Galatas Errasti25,047José Baldor Valdés25,122Narciso Camejo Pimienta10,030Alfonso Masón García8,879 +Liberal Party of CubaCandidatesStatusVotesArmando del Pino Sandrino22,708Estanislao Cartañá Borrell17,927Ramón Vidal Díaz17,700José Lazo Rodríguez7,156Alfredo Veliz Muñoz9,690 +Unionist Liberal PartyCandidatesStatusVotesCésar Madrid Vega5,515Ramón Hernández9,082Virgilio Rayneri7,488Modesto Gómez Rubio6,920Ibrahim Urquiaga Arrastía7,963

Candidates for Representatives of Matanzas Province +National Conservative PartyCandidatesStatusVotesGustavo G. Menocal Deon19,434Domingo Lecuona Mádam21,761Alfredo González Benard17,474Miguel Arango Mantilla18,521Eduardo García Vigoa14,872 +Liberal Party of CubaCandidatesStatusVotesNemesio Busto Delgado14,614Juan Gronlier Sardiñas16,006Celso Cuóllar del Rio***17,452Francisco Santiago Hernández13,056Antonio Génova de Zayas11,975 ***Diario de la Marina places Celso with the Liberal Party of Cuba, while Crónica Cubana places him with the Liberal Unionist Party. +Liberal Unionist PartyCandidatesStatusVotesAgustín Mederos Lens13,068Enrique González Gómez6,116Silverio Sánchez Figueras10,067Roque E. Garrigó Salido11,385Fidel Fundora Vega15,373

Candidates for Representatives of Santa Clara Province +National Conservative PartyCandidatesStatusVotesJoaquín R. Torralbas de la Cruz24,012Manuel Rivero Gándara48,096Antonio Cazañas Gómez36,029Juan Jiménez Casto Palomino33,710Oscar Soto Calderón de la Barc26,509Rafael L. Mariscal Domínguez22,421Carlos Robau López33,953Rafael Cabrera Sánchez29,326José A. Hernández Fales26,534Pedro Pamps Camps39,107Justo Carrillo Morales41,234 +Liberal Unionist PartyCandidatesStatusVotesOrestes Ferrara Marino54,347Andrés García Santiago36,550Antonio Calvo Cárdenas19,553Roberto Méndez Peñate47,868Manuel J. Delgado Delgado23,195André Calleja Capote24,038Ricardo Campos Martínez38,504Mario García Madrigal23,880Fernando J. del Pino27,811Pablo Lezcano Larrondo24,019Juan Fuentes Borges19,219 +Liberal Party of CubaCandidatesStatusVotesEduardo Guzmán Macías2,006Carlos Calonga López3,890Félix Arias Segrera1,225Casimiro Haya Serrano2,603Fortunato Sánchez Osorio1,139Ernesto Collado Castillo1,108Manuel J. de Carrerá Sterling1,193Isidoro Tristá Pérez1,541Antonio Rojas Oria1,446Juan A. Espinosa Espinosa1,182Andrés Pereira Torres1,244

Other Elected Representatives of Santa Clara Province

Roberto Mendez Pendant (ULP)

Candidates for Representatives in Oriente Province +National Conservative PartyCandidatesStatusVoteLuis A. Milanés Tamayo38,801Manuel Giraudy Vivar32,255Miguel López García31,199Pablo García Menocal Deop36,366Calixto Enamorado27,616Francisco Alvarez Lago23,053Juan P. Sánchez Silveira18,769Wilfredo Albanés Peña29,024Arístides García Gómez26,233Félix del Prado Jiménez35,696Francisco Gutiérrez Barroso25,378Eduardo González Manet30,124 +Liberal Party of CubaCandidatesStatusVotesSebastián Planas Mojena26,614Arturo de Feria Salazar32,499Justo R. Canipiña20,111Manuel León Valdés32,227Manuel Plana Rodriguez del Rey26,839Enrique Samuel Duany30,046Ibrahím Arias Gutiérrez30,689Idelfonso Llamas Cobos17,931Alberto Duboy Castillo27,078José R. Barceló Reyes37,788Alberto Castellanos19,065Rogelio Robianas Arquimbau20,457 Other Elected Representatives of Oriente Province

Manuel Diaz Ramirez (Liberal Provincial) Eduardo Beltran Moreno (Liberal Provincial)

Elected Representatives of Camagüey Province

Julio C. del Castillo (LPC) (Incumbent) Aurelio Alvarez (NCP)

* Underline indicates that a candidate was elected to a seat in the Senate.

** Votes come from a source that reported on November 6, and may not have been completely tabulated at the time of reporting.

Allegations of Fraud Although there were initial reportings of a steady and well-organized election, later information would come to dispute that, starting with a controversy regarding whether or not President Mario Menocal should have been allowed to vote, due to him having failed to register in the district that he lived in. Later evidence would come forth showing an election that was tampered with ballot harvesting and voter fraud.

As reported by the Journal Gazette, allegations of fraud were rampant following the conclusion of the election. It was reported that there was a <10% voter turnout, yet the La Habana Province saw a voter turnout of 1,200,000, despite the fact that 7 years prior, the entire population of Cuba was barely above 2,000,000 people. Votes were alleged to be sold in lots for $200. Despite calls for an annulment of the election due to fraud, the election was not recalled. It is generally believed that the election was, at least in party, fraudulent. The Wilkes-Barre Semi-Weekly Record, while not reporting fraud, echoed similar concerns of inconsistency and suspicion regarding population issues in La Habana province.

The Baltimore Sun reported similar claims. 2 days after the election, the 10% voter turnout statistics had been leaked. It was also recorded that some of the alleged voter fraud contained the names of dead men, such as Evaristo Estenoz, who had died a 4 years before the election during the Negro Rebellion. Later, it was reported that the Senate had failed to fill a quorum, and a message written by President Menocal regarding the state of the agricultural sector's economy. Earlier in the year, the Sun had reported on fraudulent votes within the senate, stating that in the process to elect a Speaker of the House back on August 31 had 3 more votes cast than there were members in Congress, leading to more suspicion that the 1914 nationwide election could have been tampered with. +Official Vote Count of La Habana Province**PartyVotesNational Conservative Party349,115Liberal Party of Cuba338,086Liberal Unionist Party253,239National Party of Cuba89,130Federal Worker's Party10,773Republican Party36,380Party for Morale23,893

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