1963 Argentine general election

none Argentina 7 July 1963 476 members of the Electoral College 239 11,356,240 85.50% yes Presidential election presidential 1958 Argentine general election 1958 March 1973 Argentine general election March 1973 130x130px Arturo Umberto Illia 1965.jpg Arturo Illia Carlos Perette People's Radical Civic Union 2,441,064 31.90% 270 Oscar Alende.png Oscar Alende Celestino Gelsi Intransigent Radical Civic Union 1,593,002 20.82% 86 Aramburu2.jpg Pedro Aramburu Various Union of the Argentine People 1,362,596 17.81% 74 1963 Argentine presidential election.png 200px Results by province President José María Guido Arturo Illia Intransigent Radical Civic Union People's Radical Civic Union yes yes Legislative election 1962 1965 192 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 7 July 1963 85.48% yes People's Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo 30.79 72 Intransigent Radical Civic Union 19.63 40 UDELPA–PDP 15.58 27 Neoperonists 9.00 17 National Federation of Centre Parties es Federación Nacional de Partidos de Centro 6.14 10 Christian Democratic Party 5.55 7 Argentine Socialist Party 3.91 6 Democratic Socialist Party 3.90 5 Autonomist–Liberal Pact 1.29 4 Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Radical Civic Union 0.59 1 Renewal Crusade Radical Civic Union 0.41 1 Provincial Defence–White Flag es Defensa Provincial-Bandera Blanca 0.31 1 Provincial Party 0.21 1 Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1963 - Resultados por distrito.svg Results by province General elections were held in Argentina on 7 July 1963. Voters chose both the President and their legislators; with a turnout of 86%, resulting in the election of Arturo Illia as President of Argentina. Background The spectre of military intervention so much in evidence after the election of Arturo Frondizi in 1958 became reality following his coerced resignation on March 29, 1962. His UCRI candidates had done well; but the evening's big surprise, Andrés Framini's election as Governor of Buenos Aires Province (one of ten Peronists to win gubernatorial polls that night), proved unacceptable to the armed forces.http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/civmil/guido/1962.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080929203535/http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/civmil/guido/1962.html dead September 29, 2008 Todo Argentina: 1962 An array of political leaders had been lobbying the military against Frondizi, as well: centrist UCRP leader Ricardo Balbín (whom Frondizi defeated on a splinter ticket in 1958) and conservative economist Álvaro Alsogaray (whom Frondizi sidestepped in favor of pro-industry economist Rogelio Julio Frigerio) both openly celebrated the president's unceremonious exit.Potash, Robert The Army and Politics in Argentina Stanford University Press 1996 thumb|190px|A military adjutant watches over interim President Guido, an unwitting metaphor as Army factions wrestled for control of his puppet regime. The matter of Frondizi's successor, itself, became a subject of contention within the armed forces. The two opposing camps defined themselves as either "Blues" (es Azules, at pains to maintain a patina of legality over the destabilizing intervention) or "Reds" (es Colorados, lacking any compunction against imposing a prolonged and repressive dictatorship). The stalemate lasted merely a day because most of the Army High Command were "Blues," whose preference of a "legal" solution to the vacuum was supported by most of the press and the Argentine public, then enjoying Latin America's widest access to the media.Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year, 1965: communications. Relying on constitutional guidelines, they named the reluctant Senate President José María Guido Head of State. Guido, a moderate senator from then-remote Río Negro Province, had been elected on Frondizi's 's UCRI ticket. His prompt resignation from the UCRI and annulment of the March 18 mid-term elections did not immediately dispel the threat of a coup attempt, however, and mutinies in April and August resulted in the appointment of Army General Juan Carlos Onganía (who successfully rebelled against his "Red" superiors) as Head of the Military Joint Chiefs. The more stable military panorama was overshadowed by economic worries. Following a brief period of robust growth led by industrial production, President Guido's economic team, led by Alsogaray, imposed a fresh devaluation and austerity measures such as strict credit controls and even the payment of state salaries with nearly-worthless bonds. GDP fell by 4% in 1962-63 and unemployment rose to nearly 9%.http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/civmil/guido/1963.html Todo Argentina: 1963 2009-01-03 2009-02-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20090218233415/http://todo-argentina.net/historia/civmil/guido/1963.html dead The Radical Civic Union (UCR) was again divided between the Intransigent (UCRI) and more conservative Popular (UCRP) factions as they convened in March 1963. The UCRP nominated former Córdoba Province Vice-Governor Arturo Illia, a country doctor fondly remembered for his work in the Public Health Committee in Congress; Balbín, who still led the UCRP, opted out of the nomination at the party's March 10 convention believing that a less anti-Peronist choice would give the UCRP a critical advantage over the rival UCRI. The UCRI, as they had done in 1958, initially hoped to secure the exiled Juan Perón's endorsement who, from Madrid, still directly controlled a fifth of the Argentine electorate. Permitted to field local and Lower House candidates (but still banned from either the Senate or the Presidency) Peronist voters, like in 1962, rallied behind the UP and six other parties. Their intention to run in the less-than-free elections was itself in defiance of Perón, however, who refused to endorse "neo-Peronist" candidates and instead called for blank ballots. Alejandro Leloir, who had fallen out with fellow neo-Peronists as well as Perón, ran for president independently on the Three Flags ticket; named for the "three Peronist flags" of sovereignty, independence, and social justice, this became the only Peronist ticket allowed on the presidential ballot in 1963.Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina McGuire, James Stanford University Press 1997 Against opposition from former Buenos Aires Governor Oscar Alende, Frondizi and Perón initially agreed on a "National Popular Front," fielding a respected, moderately conservative publisher as the nominee, Vicente Solano Lima. Tricked by a similar move in 1958, the military objected, however, leading to the brutal 1963 Argentine Navy Revolt on April 2, which cost 24 lives and effectively scuttled the Perón-Frondizi front. These incidents led former President Pedro Aramburu run on his UDELPA ticket, thus hoping to provide those most likely to support a military coup a suitable, center-right choice instead. He was also endorsed by the more moderate Democratic Progressive Party, whose leader, Horacio Thedy, ran as Aramburu's running mate; making fears of Perón's return his battle horse, Aramburu's slogan was unequivocal: Vote UDELPA...and HE won't return! Other anti-Peronist conservatives supported former Córdoba Mayor Emilio Olmos and the FNPC.http://www.lanacion.com.ar/152915-murio-el-ingeniero-emilio-olmos Murió el ingeniero Emilio Olmos La Nación Hamstrung by Frondizi's open enmity against Alende for the latter's rejection of the ultimately aborted Front, as well as Perón's call for blank ballots, Alende's UCRI was defeated in an upset by Dr. Arturo Illia and the UCRP. The renewed ban on the participation of Peronist candidates resulted in the highest percentage of blank votes in Argentine electoral history; Leloir's Three Flags ticket received 4 electoral votes.Nohlen Dieter Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook 2005 Oxford University Press 0-19-928358-3 II: South America Nueva York Dieter Nohlen Candidates for President Radical Civic Union (centrist): Former Deputy Arturo Umberto Illia of Córdoba Intransigent Radical Civic Union (center-left): Former Governor Oscar Alende of Buenos Aires UDELPA (conservative): Former de facto President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu of Córdoba National Federation of Center Parties (conservative): Former Córdoba Mayor Emilio Olmos Christian Democratic Party (centrist): Former Deputy Horacio Sueldo of Buenos Aires Socialist Party: Former Senator Alfredo Palacios of Buenos Aires Results President Popular vote Electoral College Electoral vote Arturo Umberto Illia Carlos Humberto Perette People's Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo 2441064 168 270 Oscar Alende Celestino Gelsi es Intransigent Radical Civic Union 1593002 110 86 Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Arturo J. Etchevehere 1 Aramburu 5 Union of the Argentine People 726861 42 74 5 Horacio Thedy 1 Democratic Progressive Party 619481 30   3 Misiones Alliance (UDELPA–PDP) 14453 3 UDELPA–PDP 1801 1362596 75 Emilio Olmos Jr. es Emilio Olmos (hijo) Emilio Jofré es National Federation of Centre Parties es Federación Nacional de Partidos de Centro 511779 31 Horacio Sueldo es Francisco Eduardo Cerro es Christian Democratic Party 434823 23 Alfredo Palacios Ramón I. Soria Argentine Socialist Party 278856 12 12 Alfredo Orgaz es Rodolfo Fitte Democratic Socialist Party 258787 10 Justo León Bengoa es Alejandro H. Leloir es 5 Bengoa Social Justice Party 83302 4 1 5 National Front Movement 40164 1 Labour Party 20560 National Independent Party 6745 150771 5 Alejandro H. Leloir es   Three Flags Party 113941 7 4     White Party 70860 3     Liberal Party of Corrientes 59696 5     Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Radical Civic Union 46088 4     Democratic Federal Movement 42116 5     Autonomist Party of Corrientes 38907 3     Agrarian Social Party 37630     Renewal Crusade Radical Civic Union 31718 3     National Union 30730 1     Provincial Defence–White Flag es Defensa Provincial-Bandera Blanca 23437 2 Juan Francisco Castro es Juan Francisco Castro (militar)   National Action 22993     Neuquén People's Movement 20648 6     Provincial Party 16086 2     Colorado Party 10929     Democratic Conservative People's Party 10493     Socialist Party 9483     People's Party 9371     Democratic Concentration 6028     Popular Intransigent Radical Civic Union 5301 1     Misiones Popular Civic Union 4212     Blue and White Party 3993     La Rioja Radical Civic Union 2705     Autonomist Democratic Party 1337     Formosa Civic Union 945     Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party es Partido Socialista Argentino de Vanguardia 475     Conservative Provincial Workers Party 185 Carlos Sylvestre Begnis   4 Intransigent Radical Civic Union 11 Edmundo Eduardo Blanchet   Three Flags Party 4 3 1884435 3 173696 0 11356240 476 Cantón,Cantón Darío Materiales para el estudio de la sociología política en la Argentina http://www.dariocanton.com/publicaciones/sociologia/1968_materiales-para-el-estudio-de-la-sociologia/1968_materiales-para-el-estudio-de-la-sociologia_1.pdf Centro de Investigaciones Sociales - Torcuato di Tella Institute Buenos Aires 1968 Tomo I 227–232 Ministry of the Interior,https://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntospoliticos/pdf/HistoriaElectoralArgentina.pdf Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007) December 2008 Ministry of Interior - Subsecretaría de Asuntos Políticos y Electorales https://web.archive.org/web/20140908165849/https://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntospoliticos/pdf/HistoriaElectoralArgentina.pdf 8 September 2014 Nohlen Chamber of Deputies 1963–1965 1963–1967 Total People's Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical del Pueblo 2419269 36 36 72 Intransigent Radical Civic Union 1542072 20 20 40 UDELPA–PDP 5 Union of the Argentine People 654392 7 7 14 Democratic Progressive Party 555891 6 6 12 Misiones Alliance 12110 0 1 1 UDELPA–PDP 1737 0 0 1224130 13 14 27 Neoperonism 14 Popular Union 165922 3 1 4 Three Flags Party 113715 1 2 3 White Party 71149 0 1 1 People's Party 70031 0 0 0 Social Justice Party 66976 1 0 1 National Labour Party 54449 0 2 2 Workers' White Party 46777 0 2 2 Democratic Federal Movement 42491 0 1 1 National Front Movement 40649 0 0 0 Labour Party 31969 0 0 0 San Luis Popular Action 23126 1 0 1 Neuquén People's Movement 20572 2 0 2 National Independent Party 7087 0 0 0 707177 8 9 17 National Federation of Centre Parties es Federación Nacional de Partidos de Centro National Federationof Centre Parties 10 Democratic Party 191751 2 2 4 Conservative Union 141619 1 2 3 Conservative Democratic Party 52134 1 0 1 Liberal Democratic Party 38842 1 0 1 United Democratic Party 27719 0 1 1 Provincial Union 15477 0 0 0 Conservative Party 8141 0 0 0 Popular Democratic Party 5121 0 0 0 Misiones Liberal Party 1202 0 0 0 482006 5 5 10 Christian Democratic Party 436932 3 4 7 Argentine Socialist Party 306870 3 3 6 Democratic Socialist Party 306648 3 2 5 Autonomist–Liberal Pact 101193 2 2 4 Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Radical Civic Union 46365 1 0 1 Social Agrarian Party 37297 0 0 0 Renewal Crusade Radical Civic Union 32050 1 0 1 National Union 26961 0 0 0 Provincial Defence–White Flag es Defensa Provincial-Bandera Blanca 24422 0 1 1 National Action Crusade 21335 0 0 0 Union of Argentine Retirees 18613 0 0 0 Provincial Party 16333 1 0 1 Colorado Party 11031 0 0 0 Conservative Democratic People's Party 10635 0 0 0 Socialist Party 9415 0 0 0 Democratic Concentration 6310 0 0 0 People's Intransigent Radical Civic Union 5338 0 0 0 Misiones Popular Civic Union 4099 0 0 0 Blue and White Party 3948 0 0 0 La Rioja Radical Civic Union 2826 0 0 0 National Action-Civic Union of Workers 1672 0 0 0 Democratic Autonomist Party 1465 0 0 0 Formosa Civic Union 960 0 0 0 National Workers' Party 760 0 0 0 Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party es Partido Socialista Argentino de Vanguardia 448 0 0 0 Provincial Conservative Workers' Party 184 0 0 0 1850546 11356235 Elecciones Nacionales: Presidenciales y Legislativas 1963. 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