1908 Ierigian Republic presidential election

The 1908 Ierigian Republic presidential election was held on 20 September 1908. The election saw incumbent President Minos Michaelides of the Party of the Republic elected to a fourth term in the presidency, defeating Liberal Party candidate Stylianos Perris and National Party candidate Andronikos Vlahos. The subsequent meeting of the National Assembly to elect the Vice President saw the election of Party of the Republic candidate Emmanouil Sannas to replace incumbent Vasso Georgas, who had chosen to retire at the end of his third term.
Michaelides' victory was the narrowest of the four elections he won and he failed to win a majority of the public vote for the first time. The 437,449 votes won by Liberal candidate Stylianos Perris was the highest total in a Presidential election in the party's history at the time while the National Party saw their share of the vote fall for a third consecutive election.
In the run-up to the election, President Michaelides faced criticism from within his own party. Having served three terms already, the Progressive wing felt that Michaelides had failed to make significant changes to improve the economic and political conditions in the country. Many were frustrated by his tough stance on women's suffrage and low-tax policies in particular. Discussion of an attempted challenge eventually amounted to nothing, though, and Michaelides was re-nominated as the party's Presidential candidate unopposed.
The main issues in the campaign were the changing economic landscape of the Ierigian Republic as it attempted to capitalise on the process of industrialisation and the political structure of the country. When he was first elected, Michaelides had spoken of a desire to increase the level of democratic involvement in decision-making processes but this had largely been stifled by the National Assembly. Both the Liberal and National candidates campaigned on pledges to transfer more powers to the directly elected Convention and away from the indirectly elected Senate. Stylianos Perris also committed to extending the franchise to women, as did Miltiadis Alexopoulos of the Radical Party.
==Results==
Candidate 	Party	Party 	Vote 	Vote
Candidate 	Party	Party 	Count 	Percentage
Minos Michaelides 	 	Party of the Republic	475,615	48.6%
Stylianos Perris 	 	Liberal Party 	437,449	44.7%
Andronikos Vlahos 	 	National Party 	52,846 	5.4%
Emmanouil Petrides 	 	League of Socialists 	6,850 	0.7%
Efthimios Varelas 	 	Party of Agriculture 	2,936 	0.3%
Makis Sitas 	 	Independent 	1,957 	0.2%
Miltiadis Alexopoulos	 	Radical Party 	979 	0.1%
Category:Elections in the Ierigian Republic