1916 Argentine general election

none Argentina 2 April 1916 yes Presidential election presidential 300 members of the Electoral College 151 1910 Argentine general election 1910 1922 Argentine general election 1922 130x130px Hipólito Yrigoyen con banda (02).jpg Hipólito Yrigoyen Radical Civic Union 152 340,802 47.25% Ángel Dolores Rojas.jpg Ángel Rojas Conservative 104 150,245 20.83% Lisandro de la Torre 001.jpg Lisandro de la Torre PDP 135,308 18.76 20 President Victorino de la Plaza National Autonomist Party Hipólito Yrigoyen Radical Civic Union File:1916 Argentine presidential election.png 200px Result by province yes Chamber of Deputies 1914 1918 2 April 1916 62 of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 65.59% yes Radical Civic Union 44.76 26 20 Conservative Concentration 24.78 18 27 Democratic Progressive Party 9.77 7 2 Socialist Party 7.23 3 7 Dissident Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Disidente 3.85 4 0 Liberal–Autonomist Pact es Pacto Autonomista - Liberal 2.36 3 5 Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1916 - Resultados por distrito.svg 1.5 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 63%. The turnout for the Chamber of Deputies election was 65%. The election has been characterized as the first free and fair elections in Argentina.Goldwert Marvin 1968 The Rise of Modern Militarism in Argentina https://www.jstor.org/stable/2510742 The Hispanic American Historical Review 48 2 189–205 10.2307/2510742 0018-2168 subscription The election, won by the Radical Civic Union (UCR), put an end to the six-decade long dominance of the National Autonomist Party in Argentine politics.Hodge John E. 1976 Julio Roca and Carlos Pellegrini: An Expedient Partnership https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/abs/julio-roca-and-carlos-pellegrini-an-expedient-partnership/A0D7BD0720329DEF74EA2C3026B9AB39 The Americas en 32 3 327–347 10.2307/980158 0003-1615 subscription Background thumb|170px|left|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.Todo Argentina: Roque Sáenz Peña es 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". Nouzeilles, Gabriella and Motaldo, Graciela. The Argentina Reader. Duke University Press, 2002. 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.Todo Argentina: 1916 https://web.archive.org/web/20180717042123/http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/radicales/Yrigoyen1/1916.html 2018-07-17 es Candidates Radical Civic Union (populist): President of the UCR Hipólito Yrigoyen of the city of Buenos Aires Conservative Party (conservative): Governor Ángel Rojas of San Juan Province Democratic Progressive Party (reformist): Deputy Lisandro de la Torre of Santa Fe Province Socialist Party: Deputy Juan B. Justo of the city of Buenos Aires Results Electoral college Hipólito Yrigoyen Pelagio Luna Radical Civic Union 340802 133 Ángel Dolores Rojas Juan Eugenio Serú es 7 ConservativeConcentration Conservative Party 96103 46 National Autonomist Party Popular Party 16141 7 National Autonomist Party Democratic Union 13921 4 National Autonomist Party Autonomist Party of Corrientes 9645 0 Civic Concentration 9170 7 People's Party (Jujuy) es Partido Popular (Jujuy) Provincial Party 5265 6 150245 70 Lisandro de la Torre Alejandro Carbó es De la Torre–Carbó 4 Democratic Progressive Party 115604 49 Democratic Progressive Party (Argentina) Provincial Union 10909 8 Catamarca Concentration 8795 7 135308 64 Juan B. Justo Nicolás Repetto Socialist Party 66397 14 No candidate No candidate Dissident Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Disidente 28116 19 No candidate No candidate Argentine Socialist Party 347 0 26256 1189254 Cantón Darío http://www.dariocanton.com/publicaciones/sociologia/1968_materiales-para-el-estudio-de-la-sociologia/1968_materiales-para-el-estudio-de-la-sociologia_1.pdf Materiales para el estudio de la sociología política en la Argentina 1968 Centro de Investigaciones Sociales - Torcuato di Tella Institute Tomo I Buenos Aires 85https://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 2014http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/politica/centro_historia_politica/materiales/Las%20fuerzas%20armadas/ffaarestituyen.pdf Las Fuerzas Armadas restituyen el imperio de la soberanía popular: Las elecciones generales de 1946 Imprenta de la Cámara de Diputados 1946 Tomo I Buenos Aires 368–375 2023-03-14 2021-06-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20230314173218/http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/politica/centro_historia_politica/materiales/Las%20fuerzas%20armadas/ffaarestituyen.pdf dead Ansaldi Waldo Estado, partidos y sociedad en la Argentina Radical, 1916-1930 http://geshal.sociales.uba.ar/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2013/04/ANSALDI-Partidos-Estado-y-sociedad.pdf Revista Uruguaya de Ciencias Sociales Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana Feb 1989 2 President 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 es Democratic Progressive Party 8 300 By province ProvinceYrigoyen Rojas de la Torre Justo Carbó Buenos Aires City 30 14 Buenos Aires 20 40 Catamarca 3 7 Córdoba 18 7 Corrientes 6 12 Entre Ríos 15 7 Jujuy 2 6 La Rioja 2 6 Mendoza 8 4 Salta 4 8 San Juan 3 7 San Luis 3 7 Santa Fe 19 8 Santiago del Estero 10 4 Tucumán 12 6 Total 152 104 20 14 8Source: Senate,1916 Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Año 1916 - Tomo I https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112102089486;view=1up;seq=116 Buenos Aires Talleres Gráficos de L. J. Rosso y Cía. 88–110 Duhalde Duhalde Eduardo Luis 2007 Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke https://books.google.com/books?id=4KQTnSsjwx0C&pg=PA232 Buenos Aires Colihue 232 978-950-563-460-6 Vice president Pelagio Luna Radical Civic Union 152 Juan Eugenio Serú es Conservative Party 103 Alejandro Carbó es Democratic Progressive Party 20 Nicolás Repetto Socialist Party 14 Carlos Ibarguren Democratic Progressive Party 8 Julio Argentino Pascual Roca Conservative Party 1 300 By province ProvinceLuna Serú Carbó Repetto Ibarguren RocaBuenos Aires City30 14 Buenos Aires2040 Catamarca3 7 Córdoba187 Corrientes612 Entre Ríos157 Jujuy26 La Rioja26 Mendoza83 1Salta48 San Juan37 San Luis37 Santa Fe19 8Santiago del Estero104 Tucumán12 6 Total 152 103 20 14 8 1Source: Senate Duhalde Chamber of Deputies Won Total File:Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1916 (Actualizado).svg Radical Civic Union 339296 26 47 Conservative Parties 7 Conservative Party 113002 15 National Autonomist Party Popular Concentration 21750 0 People's Party 16664 0 National Autonomist Party Democratic Union 15146 1 National Autonomist Party Provincial Union 11339 2 Autonomist Party of Corrientes 9911 0 187812 18 43 Democratic Progressive Party 74061 7 9 Socialist Party 54838 3 9 Argentine Socialist Party 34052 0 0 #FF6700 Dissident Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Disidente 29173 4 4 Liberal–Autonomist Pact es Pacto Autonomista - Liberal 17910 3 6 Unitarian Party 759 0 0 Others 20163 0 1 Vacant 1 1 13964 1189254 1916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 19-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/19-d-1916.pdf#page=71916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 4-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/4-d-1916.pdf#page=41916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 11-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/11-d-1916.pdf#page=131916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 36-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/36-d-1916.pdf#page=51991 Horacio Cabezas 31 Universidad de Michigan Villa María y su radicalismoDiario de sesiones de la Cámara de Diputados - Año 1916 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112063844010&seq=91 1916 Talleres Gráficos de L. 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Buenos Aires Tomo I 731916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 55-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/55-d-1916.pdf#page=61916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 49-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/49-d-1916.pdf#page=72 May 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220502022911/https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/9-d-1916.pdf#page=178 1916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 9-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/9-d-1916.pdf#page=1781916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 31-P-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/31-p-1916.pdf#page=971916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 58-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/58-d-1916.pdf#page=121916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 53-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/53-d-1916.pdf#page=81916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 27-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/27-d-1916.pdf#page=681916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 43-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/43-d-1916.pdf#page=81916 Buenos Aires 170 Talleres Gráficos de L. J. Rosso y Cía. Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Diputados - Año 1916 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.d0000997528&view=1up&seq=190&skin=2021 Tomo I1916 PDF Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 7-D-1916 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/7-d-1916.pdf#page=11 References Argentina Argentina General Category:Presidential elections in Argentina Category:Legislative elections in Argentina