1898 Argentine general election

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1898 Argentine general election
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12 April 1898
Presidential election
  1892
1904  

300 members of the Electoral College
151 votes needed to win
  Alejo Julio Argentino Roca.JPG BartolomeMitre.jpg
Nominee Julio Argentino Roca Bartolomé Mitre
Party PAN UCN
Electoral vote21838
Percentage85.16%14.84%

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Results by province

President before election

José Evaristo Uriburu
National Autonomist Party

Elected President

Julio Argentino Roca
National Autonomist Party

Legislative election
  1896 10 April 1898 1900  

79 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
PartySeats
PAN and allies 79
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Argentina on 12 April 1898 to choose the president and 79 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Julio Argentino Roca was elected president for a second period.

Contents

Background

Having obtained the aging Luis Sáenz Peña's resignation in favor of Vice President José Evaristo Uriburu (who was good stead with both Roca and Mitre), Roca once again carried the PAN standard in 1898. The UCR, which had lost its founder, Leandro Alem, to suicide in 1896, was divided between those who backed Senator Bernardo de Irigoyen's drive to form coalitions with more conservative parties, and those who supported the party's new leader, Hipólito Yrigoyen (who boycotted this and future "election songs" – establishing what later became known as the UCR's "break before bending" policy). [1] Public debate was heated on the eve of the January 30 elections to a constitutional assembly entrusted to increase the number of congressmen and cabinet members, as well before the April 10, 1898, general election. The electoral college yielded no surprises, though, and Roca was returned to the presidency. [2]

Results

President

CandidatePartyVotes%
Julio Argentino Roca National Autonomist Party 21885.16
Bartolomé Mitre National Civic Union 3814.84
Total256100.00
Registered voters/turnout300

By province

ProvinceRocaMitre
Buenos Aires City 2213
Buenos Aires 2318
Catamarca 10
Córdoba 24
Corrientes 77
Entre Ríos 20
Jujuy 8
La Rioja 8
Mendoza 11
Salta 9
San Juan 8
San Luis 9
Santa Fe 28
Santiago del Estero 14
Tucumán 17
Total21838

Vice president

CandidatePartyVotes%
Norberto Quirno Costa National Autonomist Party 21784.77
Juan Eusebio Torrent  [ es ] National Civic Union 238.98
Valentín Virasoro  [ es ] Liberal Party of Corrientes 72.73
Julio Argentino Roca National Autonomist Party 62.34
Lino D. Churruarín Radical Civic Union 10.39
Emilio Gouchón  [ es ] Radical Civic Union 10.39
Bartolomé Mitre National Civic Union 10.39
Total256100.00
Registered voters/turnout300

By province

ProvinceQuirno CostaTorrentVirasoroRocaChurruarínGouchónMitre
Buenos Aires City 2210111
Buenos Aires 23135 [a]
Catamarca 10
Córdoba 24
Corrientes 77
Entre Ríos 191
Jujuy 8
La Rioja 8
Mendoza 11
Salta 9
San Juan 8
San Luis 9
Santa Fe 28
Santiago del Estero 14
Tucumán 17
Total2172376111

Chamber of Deputies

The National Autonomist Party and its allies won all 79 seats in the election.

Notes

  1. In the vote table these 5 votes appear incorrectly as 5 votes from Córdoba.

References

  1. Levene, Ricardo. A History of Argentina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
  2. Todo Argentina: 1898 Archived 2017-11-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)