1954 Argentine general election

none July 2021 Argentina 1951 Argentine general election 1951 1958 Argentine general election 1958 25 April 1954 yes Vice presidential election presidential 9,222,075 85.58% Vicepresidente Alberto Teisaire.png Alberto Teisaire 4,944,106 64.52% Peronist Party Crisólogo_Larralde_circa_1946.jpg Crisólogo Larralde es 2,493,422 32.22% Radical Civic Union 1954 Argentine vice-presidential election.png 210px Results by province Vice President Vacant (Hortensio Quijano deceased in 1952) Vice President-elect Alberto Teisaire Peronist Party yes Chamber of Deputies election 88 of the 169 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 86.00% yes Peronist Party 64.28 74 70 Radical Civic Union 32.31 5 7 yes Senate election 18 of the 34 seats in the Senate yes yes Peronist Party 18 15 General elections were held in Argentina on 25 April 1954. Voters chose both their legislators and the Vice-president of Argentina with a turnout of 85%. Background The death of his wife and closest advisor, Evita, stuck President Juan Perón amid serious difficulties. A severe drought in 1952 and years of pessimism in Argentina's important agrarian sector depleted foreign reserves and forced Perón to curtail public lending and spending programs. The recession (and a bumper crop) did, however, allow Central Bank reserves to recover and brought inflation (50% in 1951) to single digits.Todo Argentina: 1953 es Controversy surrounding Perón's in-laws and political violence both by and against his Peronist movement had dogged the president in the first half of 1953, and he took the opportunity of upcoming legislative polls to test his popularity. The Argentine Constitution did not require it at the time, but the President announced a special election to replace the late Vice President, Hortensio Quijano. Dr. Quijano had died on April 3, 1952, two months and one day before his term was to have ended on June 4, 1952. Perón nominated Senator Alberto Teisaire as the candidate for the then named Partido Peronista (Peronist Party). Teisaire was familiar to Perón from the 1943 coup d'état; the former rear admiral had helped retain the normally restive Navy's support for the populist leader before and after Perón's 1946 election and, after eight years in the Senate, he remained close to the military - a far from trivial consideration.Potash, Robert. The Army and Politics in Argentina. Stanford University Press, 1996. In the opposition since 15 years before Perón took office, the centrist UCR had been burdened by censorship and sundry forms of harassment since 1930, and 1953 had been marked by the jailing of most of their leaders. Among the few prominent figures in the party available to run for the vice-presidency was Crisólogo Larralde es. Larralde had opposed the UCR's 1945 alliance with conservatives and socialists against Perón, and was a well-known figure in the UCR's dissident, pro-Perón "Renewal Group." This did not, however, ease the UCR's restriction to access to most mass media, and the party was defeated by similar numbers to their 1951 loss.Todo Argentina: 1954 es Results Vice president Alberto Teisaire Peronist Party 4994106 Crisólogo Larralde es Radical Civic Union 2493422 Benito de Miguel es National Democratic Party 105550 Alcira de la Peña Communist Party of Argentina 89624 Luciano Molinas es Democratic Progressive Party 54054 José Fernando Penelón es Labour Gathering Party 3183 152422 9222075 National University of San MartínNational University of San Martín Chamber of Deputies File:Cámara de Diputados Argentina 1954.svg Deputieswon Deputiestotal Delegateswon Delegatestotal Totalseats Peronist Party 4977586 74 143 9 14 157 Radical Civic Union 2502109 5 12 0 0 12 National Democratic Party 104006 0 0 0 0 0 Communist Party of Argentina 88007 0 0 0 0 0 Democratic Progressive Party 46077 0 0 0 0 0 Socialist Party of the National Revolution es Partido Socialista de la Revolución Nacional 22516 0 0 0 0 0 Labour Gathering Party 3183 0 0 0 0 0 163374 9194157 NohlenNohlen Dieter Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook 2005 Oxford University Press 0-19-928358-3 II: South America Nueva York Dieter Nohlen Senate Won Total Peronist Party 18 34 Radical Civic Union 0 0 National Democratic Party 0 0 Communist Party of Argentina 0 0 Democratic Progressive Party 0 0 Socialist Party of the National Revolution es Partido Socialista de la Revolución Nacional 0 0 References Category:Legislative elections in Argentina Argentina Argentina