1888 Mexican general election

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{{Infobox election

| flag_year = 1867

| country = Mexico

| election_date = 1888

| previous_election = 1884 Mexican general election

| previous_year = 1884

| next_election = 1892 Mexican general election

| next_year = 1892

| module = {{Infobox election

| embed = yes

| election_name = Presidential election

| type = presidential

| image1 = Photo of Porfirio Díaz.jpg

| nominee1 = Porfirio Díaz

| popular_vote1 = 16,662

| percentage1 = 99.72%

| image2 = Ramon Corral Verdugo.jpg

| nominee2 = Ramón Corral

| popular_vote2 = 6

| percentage2 = 0.04%

| title = President

| before_election = Porfirio Díaz

| after_election = Porfirio Díaz

}}}}{{Politics of Mexico}}

General elections were held in Mexico in 1888. Incumbent president Porfirio Díaz was re-elected with 99.7% of the vote.Volker G. Lehr (1981) Der mexikanische Autoritarismus: Parteien, Wahlen, Herrschaftssicherung und Krisenpotential, p310

Results

=President=

{{Election results

|cand1=Porfirio Díaz|votes1=16662

|cand2=Ramón Corral|votes2=6

|cand3=Mariano Escobedo|votes3=5

|cand4=Ignacio Vallarta|votes4=5

|cand5=Other candidates|votes5=26

|cand6=Blank votes|votes6=5

|source=Ramírez Rancaño[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3539798.pdf Ramírez Rancaño]

}}

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