1911 Chinese provisional presidential election

Sun Yat-sen Tongmenghui The 1911 Chinese provisional presidential election was the election held on 29 December 1911 during the Xinhai Revolution for the First Provisional President and Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.Sun Yat-sen and Li Yuanhong were elected as President and Vice-President respectively.Sun swore in at midnight on 1 January 1912 and declared the official establishment of the Republic of China.One vote was given to each of the seventeen provinces presented in the assembly.[b] The protectorates in Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and Tibet were semi-independent and did not participate the election.
Photograph of the provisional government assembled in Nanjing to elect a leader after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911
Official list of election candidates
Official results of the election which says "Elected candidate, Sun Wen ( Sun Yat-sen ), 16 votes"
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