1904 Argentine presidential election

1904 Argentine presidential election

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Presidential election
300 members of the Electoral College 151 votes needed to win
Nominee Manuel Quintana José Evaristo Uriburu Party PAN Republican Electoral vote 240 34 Percentage 81.36% 11.53%
Results by province
President before election Julio Argentino Roca PAN Elected President Manuel Quintana PAN

Presidential elections were held in Argentina on 10 April 1904. Manuel Quintana was elected president.

Background

Riding high after another term of prosperity and important diplomatic accomplishments such as the May 1902 Pact with neighboring Chile over a border dispute and Foreign Minister Luis Drago's settlement of imminent war between the German Empire and Venezuela, President Roca enlisted Congressman Manuel Quintana as the PAN standard bearer. Within the PAN itself, some dissent was evident over Roca's dominance. These voices rallied behind former Presidents Carlos Pellegrini (as an Autonomist) and José Evaristo Uriburu (as a Republican). The UCR maintained its boycott, and the aging Quintana was selected by the electoral college on 12 June 1904.

The year's legislative elections were more historically significant than the headline presidential selection: the Buenos Aires district of La Boca elected Alfredo Palacios, the first Socialist Congressman in the western hemisphere. ^[1]

Results

President

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Manuel Quintana	National Autonomist Party	240	81.36
	José Evaristo Uriburu	Republican Party  [ es ]	34	11.53
	Marco Aurelio Avellaneda	National Autonomist Party	14	4.75
	Mauricio Pastor Daract  [ es ]	Independent	6	2.03
	Carlos Pellegrini	National Autonomist Party	1	0.34
Total			295	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			300	–

By province

Province	Quintana	J. E. Uriburu	Avellaneda	Daract	Pellegrini
Buenos Aires City	18	12	13		1
Buenos Aires	60
Catamarca	9
Córdoba	23
Corrientes	18
Entre Ríos		22
Jujuy	8
La Rioja	8
Mendoza	12
Salta	12
San Juan	10
San Luis	10
Santa Fe	28
Santiago del Estero	12		1
Tucumán	12			6
Total	240	34	14	6	1

Vice president

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	José Figueroa Alcorta	National Autonomist Party	257	87.12
	Guillermo Udaondo  [ es ]	National Civic Union	12	4.07
	Luis María Drago	National Autonomist Party	11	3.73
	Juan José Romero  [ es ]	Radical Civic Union	6	2.03
	Francisco Uriburu	National Autonomist Party	5	1.69
	Joaquín V. González	National Autonomist Party	1	0.34
	Benjamín Victorica  [ es ]	National Autonomist Party	1	0.34
	Carlos Pellegrini	National Autonomist Party	1	0.34
	Benito Villanueva  [ es ]	National Autonomist Party	1	0.34
Total			295	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			300	–

By province

Province	Alcorta	Udaondo	Drago	Romero	F. Uriburu	González	Victorica	Pellegrini	Villanueva
Buenos Aires City	21	12	11
Buenos Aires	60
Catamarca	9
Córdoba	22					1
Corrientes	18
Entre Ríos	21						1
Jujuy	3				5
La Rioja	8
Mendoza	11							1
Salta	12
San Juan	9								1
San Luis	10
Santa Fe	28
Santiago del Estero	13
Tucumán	12			6
Total	257	12	11	6	5	1	1	1	1

Notes

1. Todo Argentina: 1904 Archived 2017-11-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

References

• "Diario de Sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Período de 1904". Diario de Sesiones del Honorable Senado de la Nacion. Buenos Aires: Establecimiento Tipográfico de El Diario: 185–207. 1905.
• Duhalde, Eduardo Luis (2007). Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 232. ISBN   978-950-563-460-6.
• Rosa, José María (1981). Historia Argentina, Tomo IX: La agonía del régimen. Buenos Aires: Editorial Oriente S.A. p. 50.
• "Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007), p. 58" (PDF). Ministry of the Interior . December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2017.