 The problem happened with the vice presidential election.The winner should have been the first runner-up, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle with 98 electoral votes or 24.1% of the vote, or the second runner-up, General José Joaquín Prieto, with 61 votes or 15.0% of the vote, both conservatives.Nonetheless, Congress was controlled by the Liberals and presided over by Francisco Ramón Vicuña, also Liberal.