1924 Argentine legislative election

none Argentina 1922 1926 2 March 1924 1924 Argentine legislative election 81 of the 158 seats in the Chamber of Deputies yes 47.24% Radical Civic Union 27.21 26 51 Conservative Parties 21.97 22 9 Socialist Party 15.29 16 7 Unified Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Unificada 11.28 9 2 Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Antipersonalista 6.97 3 New Democratic Progressive Party 5.71 3 10 Lencinist Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Lencinista 2.33 2 New Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1924 - Resultados por distrito.svg Results by provinceright|thumb|Voters vote in the 1924 elections. A lack of defining isuues, and the prevailing acrimony between pro and anti-Yrigoyen UCR factions drove turnout to the lowest in post-reform Argentine electoral historythumb|170px|President Alvear kicks off the inaugural match at Boca Juniors stadium. 1924 effectively made him the referee in disputes among the numerous UCR factions. Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 2 March 1924. Voters chose their legislators and numerous governors, and with a turnout of 44%. Background President Hipólito Yrigoyen finished his term of office in 1922 with a prosperous economy, soaring popularity and content with leaving the Casa Rosada with his Ambassador to France, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. The scion of one of Argentina's traditional landed families, the well-mannered Alvear placated Yrigoyen's fears of losing control over the Radical Civic Union, a risk he insured himself against by placing his personal friend and former Buenos Aires Police Chief, Elpidio González, as Alvear's vice-president.Todo Argentina: 1922 https://web.archive.org/web/20181002100006/http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/radicales/alvear/1922.html 2018-10-02 es Alvear continued his predecessor's social and economic policies, including much-needed labor and pension laws, anti-trust legislation, and supporting Yrigoyen's landmark state oil concern, YPF; but his wholesale replacement of Yrigoyen appointees threw the populist leader and Vice President González against Alvear, in whose defense nine Argentine Senators left the UCR. Citing Yrigoyen's 18 gubernatorial removals (including numerous ones from his own party, and in all but one of Argentina's 14 provinces at the time), they contended that the former president had imposed a "personality cult", and established the Antipersonalist UCR (UCRA). The schism became official in 1924, when the two factions presented different candidates for that year's congressional elections.Todo Argentina: 1924 https://web.archive.org/web/20181002100648/http://www.todo-argentina.net/historia/radicales/alvear/1924.html 2018-10-02 es The Antipersonalists were themselves beset by disunity, however. Five "dissident" UCR groups presented candidates in 1924, and, representing provincial interests as they did, no one faction could claim the "antipersonalist" mantle. These differed not only in their geography; but also in their ideology. The most well-established group, led by Senator Leopoldo Melo and endorsed by President Alvear, were closely associated with the landowning elite, particularly that of Buenos Aires Province, incorporated much of the declining Conservative Party, and were the least amenable to reform. The leader of the Unified UCR, Santa Fe Governor Enrique Mosca, was, likewise, conservative, whereas the Mendoza faction, led by Governor Carlos Washington Lencinas (the Lencinist UCR), was more liberal than Yrigoyen's own.Unión Cívica Radical (Capital Federal) Evolución del radicalismo Parte I (1893-1928) https://web.archive.org/web/20070311164828/http://www.ucrcapital.org.ar/UCR/Biblioteca/Historia/detalleH.asp?sec=2&id=2 2007-03-11 es Ultimately, an acrimonious campaign atmosphere, as well as a shortage of prescient issues amid continuing prosperity, helped result in the lowest turnout since the advent of universal (male) suffrage.Rock, David. Argentina: 1516-1982. University of California Press, 1987. Yrigoyen's UCR bore the brunt of the resulting losses, giving up 19 seats in the Lower House, and, in contests held in April, 1925, 6 of their 15 seats in the Senate (though this latter was partly the result of UCRA defections). The party won only in Buenos Aires Province, where the opposition remained dominated by the Conservatives. The UCR's losses were most notable in the City of Buenos Aires, where the Socialist Party regained majorities in both the congressional delegation and City Council they had lost to the UCR in 1918. Provincial parties (as well as province-specific UCR groups) did well, and deprived the UCRA of fully benefiting from the shift.Nómina de diputados de la nacion por distrito electoral: periodo 1854-1991. Buenos Aires: Cámara de Diputados de la Nación, 1991. The elections handed no one faction of the fragmented UCR a victory; nor did it give their competitors in the reformist field (Socialists and Democratic Progressives) reason to believe they could supplant Yrigoyen in the foreseeable future. The real winner, however, was arguably President Alvear himself, who, by both default and reputation, would now be the final arbiter over the many, ongoing disputes between Antipersonalists, who nursed old wounds dating from Yrigoyen's "interventions," and Yrigoyen's faction of the UCR, who staked their future on the populist leader's return to the Presidency in 1928. Results File:Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1924.svg Won Total Radical Civic Union 181179 26 70 Conservative Parties 9 Conservative Party 35901 8 National Autonomist Party Democratic Party of Córdoba es Partido Demócrata de Córdoba 27634 6 Autonomist–Liberal Pact es Pacto Autonomista - Liberal 25692 2 Popular Concentration 20084 1 Liberal Party of Tucumán 15058 2 Liberal Party of Mendoza 9009 1 Democratic Party of San Luis es Partido Demócrata de San Luis Liberal Democratic Party 7175 2 Popular Party 5773 0 National Autonomist Party 146326 22 40 Socialist Party 101785 16 19 Unified Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Unificada 75105 9 9 Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Antipersonalista 46435 3 3 Dissident Radicalism 10 Opposition Radical Civic Union 14661 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Dissident Radical Civic Union Principist Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Principista 6621 0 — Bascarista Radical Civic Union 4524 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Red Radical Civic Union 2849 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Blue Radical Civic Union 2841 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Verista Radical Civic Union 2429 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Personalist Radical Civic Union 2273 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Dissident Radical Civic Union (Castro Committee) 2225 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union Yrigoyenist Radical Civic Union 1456 0 — Dissident Radical Civic Union 39879 0 5 Democratic Progressive Party 37996 3 6 Lencinist Radical Civic Union es Unión Cívica Radical Lencinista 15485 2 4 Communist Party of Argentina 4498 0 0 Public Health Party es Partido Salud Pública 1431 0 0 National Feminist Party es Partido Feminista Nacional 1313 0 0 Georgist Liberal Party 1226 0 0 Unitarian Party 903 0 0 Railway Workers 766 0 0 Independent Workers Party 740 0 0 Others 9869 0 0 Independents 949 0 0 Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Radical Civic Union 2 42899 144 1502566 Ministry of the InteriorMemoria del Ministerio del Interior presentada al Honorable Congreso de la Nación 1923-1924 https://books.google.com/books?id=8kdNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA287 1924 Establecimiento Gráfico Gerónimo Pesce Buenos Aires 287–292, 295–306 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 93–94 Chamber of DeputiesExpediente 48-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/48-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Las Fuerzas Armadas restituyen el imperio de la soberanía popular: Las elecciones generales de 1946 http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/politica/centro_historia_politica/materiales/Las%20fuerzas%20armadas/ffaarestituyen.pdf 1946 Imprenta de la Cámara de Diputados Buenos Aires Tomo I 398–402 2023-03-14 2021-07-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20230314173218/http://www.unsam.edu.ar/escuelas/politica/centro_historia_politica/materiales/Las%20fuerzas%20armadas/ffaarestituyen.pdf dead Expediente 8-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/8-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 39-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/39-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 6-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/6-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 3-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/3-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Expediente 17-D-1924 https://apym.hcdn.gob.ar/uploads/expedientes/pdf/17-d-1924.pdf 1924 Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina Memoria del Ministerio del Interior presentada al Honorable Congreso de la Nación 1924-1925 https://books.google.com/books?id=_0lNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA364 1925 Talleres Gráficos Argentinos de L. 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