1898 Argentine presidential election

1898 Argentine general election
300 members of the Electoral College; 151 votes needed to win
President before election; José Evaristo Uriburu ; National Autonomist Party	Elected President; Julio Argentino Roca ; National Autonomist Party

Last updated March 13, 2022

The Argentine presidential election of 1898 was held on 10 April to choose the president of Argentina. Julio Argentino Roca was elected president for a second period.

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

Argentine Republic
Population	4,462,000
Voters	89,200
Turnout	2%

Presidential Candidates	Party	Electoral Votes
Julio Argentino Roca	National Autonomist Party	218
Bartolomé Mitre	National Civic Union	38
Total voters		256
Did not vote		44
Total		300

Vice Presidential Candidates	Party	Electoral Votes
Norberto Quirno Costa	National Autonomist Party	217
Juan Eusebio Torrent	National Civic Union	23
Valentín Virasoro	Liberal Party of Corrientes	7
Julio Argentino Roca	National Autonomist Party	6
Lino D. Churruarín	Radical Civic Union	1
Emilio E. Gouchón	Radical Civic Union	1
Bartolomé Mitre	National Civic Union	1
Total voters		256
Did not vote		44
Total		300

Results by Province

Province	President		Vice President
Province	Roca	Mitre	Quirno Costa	Torrent	Virasoro	Roca	Churruarín	Gouchón	Mitre
Buenos Aires City	22	13	22	10		1		1	1
Buenos Aires	23	18	23	13		5^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Catamarca	10		10
Córdoba	24		24
Corrientes	7	7	7		7
Entre Ríos	20		19				1
Jujuy	8		8
La Rioja	8		8
Mendoza	11		11
Salta	9		9
San Juan	8		8
San Luis	9		9
Santa Fe	28		28
Santiago del Estero	14		14
Tucumán	17		17
Total	218	38	217	23	7	6	1	1	1

Notes

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

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

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References

Diario de Sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Período de 1898. Buenos Aires: Imprenta del "Boletín Oficial". 1898. p. 220.
Duhalde, Eduardo Luis (2007). Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 232. ISBN 978-950-563-460-6.
"Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007), p. 58" (PDF). www.mininterior.gov.ar. Ministry of the Interior. December 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

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[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)

[3] In the vote table these 5 votes appear incorrectly as 5 votes from Córdoba.

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