1916 Argentine general election

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1916 Argentine general election
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Presidential election
  1910 2 April 1916 1922  

300 members of the Electoral College
151 votes needed to win
  Hipolito Yrigoyen con banda (02).jpg Angel Dolores Rojas.jpg Lisandro de la Torre 001.jpg
Nominee Hipólito Yrigoyen Ángel Rojas Lisandro de la Torre
Party Radical Civic Union Conservative Party Democratic Progressive Party
Running mate Pelagio Luna Juan Eugenio Serú Alejandro Carbó
Electoral vote1337064
States carried5 + CF 44
Popular vote340,802150,245135,308
Percentage47.25%20.83%18.76

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Most voted party by province.

President before election

Victorino de la Plaza
National Autonomist Party

Elected President

Hipólito Yrigoyen
Radical Civic Union

Legislative election
  1914 2 April 1916 1918  

62 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout65.59%
Party%Seats+/–
Chamber of Deputies
Radical Civic Union 45.08%26+6
Conservative Concentration 21.99%18−9
Democratic Progressive Party 14.62%7+5
Socialist Party 7.46%3−4
Dissident Radical Civic Union 3.92%4+4
Liberal Party of Corrientes 2.38%3−2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Results by province

General elections were held in Argentina on 2 April 1916. Voters elected the President, legislators, and local officials. The first secret-ballot presidential elections in the nation's history, they were mandatory and had a turnout of 62.8%. The turnout for the Chamber of Deputies election was 65.9%.

Contents

Background

UCR leader Hipolito Yrigoyen greets supporters following his 1916 victory. His advocacy for free elections for over a generation resulted in Argentina's first pluralist government. Yrigoyen.jpg
UCR leader Hipólito Yrigoyen greets supporters following his 1916 victory. His advocacy for free elections for over a generation resulted in Argentina's first pluralist government.

President Roque Sáenz Peña kept his word to the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen, who in turn abandoned his party's twenty-year-old boycott of elections. The president overcame nearly two years of conservative opposition in Congress (and pressure from his own social class) to pass in 1912 what was later known as the Sáenz Peña Law, which mandated universal male suffrage and the secret ballot. His health deteriorating quickly, the President lived to see the fruition of his reforms: the 1914 mid-term elections, which gave the UCR 19 out of the 60 Lower House seats in play (the ruling party obtained 10) and the governorship of Santa Fe Province (then the second-most important). Another beneficiary of the Sáenz Peña Law was the Socialist Party, led by Congressman Juan B. Justo. The formerly dominant PAN remained divided between the Conservative Party, led by the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Marcelino Ugarte, and the Democratic Progressive Party, led by a reformist publisher and Congressman, Lisandro de la Torre. [1]

Strengthened by both popular appeal and the fractiousness of its opposition, the UCR experienced dissent within from its Santa Fe Province chapter, whose endorsement Yrigoyen was unable to obtain. The Socialists lost one of its best-known lawmakers, Alfredo Palacios, who would run on a splinter Socialist ticket for several future elections. The Conservative Party's presumptive nominee, Governor Ugarte, stepped aside in favor of a lesser-known party figure, San Juan Province Governor Ángel Rojas, in a bid to attract votes from the hinterland and from moderates. President Victorino de la Plaza refused to interfere on behalf of the Conservatives (despite an assassination attempt that would have provided him with ample pretext). Refusing to back them, he fielded his own Provincial Party, which was limited mainly to his native Santiago del Estero Province. Faced with only token opposition from the remnants of the once-paramount PAN, Yrigoyen pledged to donate his salary to charity, if elected, and encouraged the rich country's impoverished majority to know him as "the father of the poor". [2]

Election day, April 2, handed an unexpectedly large victory to Yrigoyen, who still had to await the results from the electoral college (which met in July). The dissident Santa Fe UCR had drained a significant number of electors from the official ticket, and Yrigoyen obtained but 133 of the body's 300 electors. Numerous Democratic Progressives, moreover, became faithless electors - pledging their support to the Conservative Party. Santa Fe's UCR, however, resorted to the same tactic, allowing Yrigoyen its 19 electors and making the patient activist for voter rights the first democratically elected President of Argentina. [3]

Candidates

President

Presidential
candidate
Vice Presidential
candidate
PartyPopular voteElectoral vote
Votes%Votes%
Hipólito Yrigoyen Pelagio Luna Radical Civic Union (UCR)340.80247,2513344,33
Ángel Dolores Rojas Juan Eugenio SerúTotal Rojas-Serú150,24520.837023.33
Conservative Party 96,10313.334615.33
Popular Party 16,1412.2472.33
Democratic Union 13,9211.9341.33
Autonomist Party of Corrientes 9,6451.34
Civic Concentration 9,1701.2772.33
Provincial Party 5,2650.7362.00
Lisandro de la Torre Alejandro CarbóTotal de la Torre - Carbó135,30818.766421.33
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP)115,60416.034916.33
Provincial Union 10,9091.5182.67
Catamarca Concentration 8,7951.2272.33
Juan B. Justo Nicolás Repetto Socialist Party (PS)66.3979,21144,67
No candidatesDissident Radical Civic Union28.1163,90196,33
Argentine Socialist Party (PSA)3470,05
Total721.215100
Positive votes721.21596,49
Blank votes26.2563,51
Total votes747.471100
Registered voters/turnout1.189.25462,85
Sources: [4] [5] [6] [7]

Electoral Vote

Presidential CandidatesPartyElectoral Votes
Hipólito Yrigoyen Radical Civic Union 152
Ángel Dolores Rojas Conservative Party 104
Lisandro de la Torre Democratic Progressive Party 20
Juan B. Justo Socialist Party 14
Alejandro Carbó Democratic Progressive Party 8
Total voters298
Did not vote2
Total300
Vice Presidential CandidatesPartyElectoral Votes
Pelagio Luna Radical Civic Union 152
Juan Eugenio Serú Conservative Party 103
Alejandro Carbó Democratic Progressive Party 20
Nicolás Repetto Socialist Party 14
Carlos Ibarguren Democratic Progressive Party 8
Julio Argentino Pascual Roca Conservative Party 1
Total voters298
Did not vote2
Total300

Electoral Vote by Province

ProvincePresidentVice President
YrigoyenRojasde la TorreJustoCarbóLunaSerúCarbóRepettoIbargurenRoca
Buenos Aires City 30143014
Buenos Aires 20402040
Catamarca 3737
Córdoba 187187
Corrientes 612612
Entre Ríos 157157
Jujuy 2626
La Rioja 2626
Mendoza 84831
Salta 4848
San Juan 3737
San Luis 3737
Santa Fe 198198
Santiago del Estero 104104
Tucumán 126126
Total15210420148152103201481
Sources: [8] [9]

Chamber of Deputies

PartyVotes %Seats wonTotal seats
Radical Civic Union (UCR)339,77145.082647
Total Conservative Parties165,72921.991843
Conservative Party 112,92214.9815
Popular Party 16,3942.17
Democratic Union 15,1412.011
Provincial Union 11,3391.502
Autonomist Party of Corrientes 9,9331.32
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP)110,23814.6279
Socialist Party (PS)56,2047.4639
Dissident Radical Civic Union29,5423.9244
Liberal Party of Corrientes 17,9102.3836
Others34,3904.561
Vacant seats11
Total753,78410062120
Positive votes753,78496.63
Blank votes26,2503.37
Total votes780,034100
Registered voters/turnout1,189,25465.59
Sources: [10] [11]

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