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Argentine legislative elections of 1912 were held on 7 April 1912 for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The first free, democratic elections in the nation's history, the contest had a turnout of 73%.
The era of dominance by the National Autonomist Party (PAN), made possible by an 1874 agreement between kingmakers Adolfo Alsina and Bartolomé Mitre (as well as by systematic electoral fraud), was also undone by agreement. A visit to Rome in 1909 gave the scion of one of Argentina's most powerful families at the time, Roque Sáenz Peña, the opportunity to meet the governing party's nemesis - the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen. Between one of their numerous discussions, Sáenz Peña was surprised by news that he would carry the PAN's standard for the upcoming "elections" of April, 1910. Sáenz Peña, who had been passed over in favor of his aging (and more conservative) father in 1892, was the counterweight President José Figueroa Alcorta needed against the reactionary wing of his party. Convinced of the need for relectoral reform, Sáenz Peña agreed with Yrigoyen to advance free and fair elections. [1]
President Sáenz Peña kept his word to the eccentric popular leader, who in turn rescinded the UCR's policy of abstentionism. The Sáenz Peña Law, enacted on February 13, mandated universal male suffrage and the secret ballot. Argentina's large immigrant population, most of whom were not yet citizens, were not included in the suffrage; this particularly affected larger cities, such as Buenos Aires and Rosario, where, at the time, more than half the population were born outside Argentina. [2]
Voters in the nation's 14 provinces and Federal District (Buenos Aires) turned out in unprecedented numbers, more than tripling the 199,000 ballots registered in the 1910 elections (the last under the "scripted vote song" scheme that had limited suffrage and produced predictable results since 1862). The UCR, whose boycott, dating from 1892, had left them without representation, was rewarded with 11 Congressmen. They maintained their boycott, however, of numerous gubernatorial elections where a lack of legal safeguards was evident - notably in Buenos Aires Province, and were defeated in the La Rioja gubernatorial elections (among the few not boycotted by the party). The UCR did defeat the rival National Civic Union (UCN) in their first joint electoral test (the latter had not boycotted earlier elections); the UCR had parted ways from the UCN, founded by former President Bartolomé Mitre, in 1890. [2]
The Socialist Party increased their representation from one (the principal Congressional advocate for social legislation and labor laws, Alfredo Palacios) to two: Alfredo Palacios and Juan B. Justo. [3]
The hitherto dominant PAN had suffered a schism in 1908 led by reformist Lisandro de la Torre, who led a significant faction of the ruling party into the Liga del Sur (its successor, Democratic Progressive Party, would become a major third party during the 1920s and '30s). [4] What remained of the PAN became the Conservative Party, which retained its dominance in the Senate, albeit a weakened one; but lost its absolute majority in the Lower House, becoming more reliant on the Unión Nacional (whose strength was in western Argentina). [5]
Elections to the Senate remained the responsibility of each provincial legislature, despite the 1912 reforms, in all districts save for the City of Buenos Aires. [6] The Buenos Aires race, held on March 30, 1913, resulted in an upset, giving Socialist candidate Enrique del Valle Iberlucea a victory over the UCR's Leopoldo Melo by 42,000 votes to 39,000. Ten Senate seats in all (one third of the chamber), were renewed in 1913. The UCR's sole Senator in 1913 (its first) was Ignacio Iturraspe, elected by Santa Fe Province legislators. The Buenos Aires Province legislature elected Conservative Marcelino Ugarte, and the party also prevailed in San Juan, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán. [7] Jujuy Province's two senators were removed on April 21 by President Sáenz Peña amid allegations of electoral fraud in provincial legislature races, and Jujuy Republican Party candidates Octavio Iturbe and Carlos Zabala were certified in their stead; [3] the development was another victory for de la Torre, to whose Liga del Sur Iturbe and Zabala also belonged. [4]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats | |
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| Total Conservative Parties | 277,645 | 46.60 | 35 | 90 | |
| Conservative Party | 115,427 | 19.37 | 15 | — | |
| Official Party | 34,031 | 5.71 | 5 | — | |
| Liberal Party of Tucumán | 29,155 | 4.89 | 2 | — | |
| Constitutional Party | 19,432 | 3.26 | 6 | — | |
| Coalition Party | 17,857 | 3.00 | 1 | — | |
| National Autonomist Party | 17,423 | 2.92 | 1 | — | |
| Popular Party | 15,478 | 2.60 | 1 | — | |
| Liberal Party of Corrientes | 14,475 | 2.43 | 2 | — | |
| Autonomist Party of Corrientes | 14,367 | 2.41 | 2 | — | |
| Radical Civic Union | 126,142 | 21.17 | 13 | 13 | |
| National Civic Union | 60,557 | 10.16 | 6 | 6 | |
| National Union | 59,814 | 10.04 | 6 | 6 | |
| Socialist Party | 36,945 | 6.20 | 2 | 2 | |
| Southern League | 17,630 | 2.96 | 1 | 1 | |
| Communal Union | 17,096 | 2.87 | — | — | |
| Vacant seats | 2 | 2 | |||
| Total | 595,829 | 100 | 65 | 120 | |
| Positive votes | 595,829 | 87.06 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 88,550 | 12.94 | |||
| Total votes | 684,379 | 100 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 935,001 | 73.20 | |||
| Sources: [8] [9] | |||||
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