1987 Argentine legislative election

none Argentina 1985 1989 127 of the 254 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 84.66% 6 September 1987 yes Justicialist Party 41.29 44 60 Radical Civic Union 37.24 64 52 Union of the Democratic Centre 5.78 1 5 Socialist Unity 1.63 0 1 Democratic Progressive Party 1.37 0 1 Autonomist–Liberal–PDP–MLP Popular Liberation Movement 1.04 1 2 Provincial Action Front es Frente de Acción Provinciana 0.61 New 1 Provincial Defence–White Flag es Defensa Provincial-Bandera Blanca 0.52 New 1 Salta Renewal Party 0.43 0 1 Neuquén People's Movement 0.39 1 1 Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Alliance 0.37 1 1 Río Negro Provincial Party es Partido Provincial Rionegrino 0.24 New 1 Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1987 - Resultados por distrito.svg Results by province Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 6 September 1987. Voters chose their legislators and governors, with a turnout of 84%. The ruling Radical Civic Union lost their majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Background The domestic and international esteem President Raúl Alfonsín earned for advancing the Trial of the Juntas suffered in December 1986, when on his initiative, Congress passed the Full Stop Law, which limited the civil trials against roughly 300 officers implicated in the 1976-79 Dirty War against dissidents to those indicted within 60 days of the law's passage, a tall order given the reluctance of many victims and witnesses to testify. These concessions did not placate hard-liners in the Argentine military who, though in a minority, put Argentina's hard-earned Democracy at risk in April 1987, when a group identified as Carapintadas ("painted faces," from their use of camouflage paint) loyal to Army Major Aldo Rico staged a mutiny of the important Army training base of Campo de Mayo during the Easter weekend. Negotiating in person with the rebels after four days of national suspense, Alfonsín secured their surrender, memorably announcing that "the house is in order."Todo Argentina: 1987 es The goodwill this earned Alfonsín and his centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) began to erode when in June, Congress passed Alfonsín's Law of Due Obedience, granting immunity to officers implicated in crimes against humanity on the basis of "due obedience." This law, condemned by Amnesty International, among others, effectively halted most remaining prosecutions of Dirty War criminals. The economy, too, became increasingly challenging. The 1985 Austral Plan had helped lead to a recovery in 1986; but frequent wage freezes ordered by the Economy Minister, Juan Sourrouille, kept real wages from rising, and GDP remained below its 1980 peak, in any case. A sharp fall in global commodity prices had evaporated the nation's US$4 billion trade surplus by 1987, and foreign debt interest payments could only be financed with more public debt, helping lead to a sudden halving of the value of the Argentine austral after May. Inflation (4% a month in May) rose to 14% in August, and though GDP grew modestly, real wages slid by around 8%.http://www.indec.gov.ar/ INDEC 2009-04-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20070406222046/http://www.indec.gov.ar/ 2007-04-06 dead Monografías Election night, September 6, dealt Alfonsín's UCR its sharpest blow among the nation's governors. The UCR lost 5 of its 7 governors elected in 1983, including the nation's most important: Governor Alejandro Armendáriz of the Province of Buenos Aires (home to 38% of Argentines). Armendáriz had been a key supporter of the President's Project Patagonia, which envisaged the transfer of the nation's capital from Buenos Aires to Viedma for the sake of decentralization. The project, which had been passed by the Lower House of Congress and had even received Pope John Paul II's personal blessing during an April 1987 state visit, had no future without an absolute UCR majority in the Lower House (the Senate - not in play in 1987 - was dominated by the Justicialist Party). The loss of 13 UCR Congressmen benefited smaller, issue-oriented parties more than it did the Justicialists (whose gains were primarily among the governors, going from 12 to 17). The first to benefit in Congress was the conservative Union of the Democratic Centre (UCeDé), which ran on a free market platform calling for privatizations of an array of State enterprises, responsible for nearly half the nation's goods and services. These companies' losses, led by the Argentine Railways', were blamed by the UCeDé's leader, Alvaro Alsogaray, for the public sector cash flow problem and resulting financial instability (while disregarding the role of foreign debt interest payments). The UCeDé's gain of 4 Congressmen in these elections, though menial, portended the policy of "surgery without anesthetic" adopted by national policy makers in the 1990s. Results Won Total File:Elecciones legislativas de Argentina de 1987 (Corregido).svg Justicialist Party 6622252 60 108 Radical Civic Union 5972588 52 118 Union of the Democratic Centre 926988 5 7 Intransigent Party 327103 0 5 Socialist Unity 261510 1 1 Movimiento al Socialismo 229623 0 0 Broad Liberation Front 228008 0 0 Democratic Progressive Party 219688 1 2 Autonomist–Liberal–PDP–MLP Popular Liberation Movement 166746 2 4 Integration and Development Movement 155932 0 0 Democratic Party of Mendoza 99749 0 1 Provincial Action Front es Frente de Acción Provinciana 98249 1 1 White Party of Retirees es Partido Blanco de los Jubilados 89319 0 0 Provincial Defence–White Flag es Defensa Provincial-Bandera Blanca 83592 1 1 Salta Renewal Party 68719 1 2 Neuquén People's Movement 61859 1 2 Blockist Party of San Juan es Partido Bloquista de San Juan Blockist Alliance 59131 1 1 Workers' Party 42732 0 0 Renewal Front 41433 0 0 Popular Union 38839 0 0 Río Negro Provincial Party es Partido Provincial Rionegrino 38150 1 1 Renewal Unit Movement 27611 0 0 Conservative Autonomist Party 24434 0 0 Labor and People's Party 24270 0 0 Patriotic Liberation Movement 18784 0 0 Christian Democratic Party 15241 0 0 Democracy and Participation Front 12854 0 0 Chubut Action Party es Partido Acción Chubutense 11041 0 0 Social Republican Party 10395 0 0 Patriotic Alliance 10109 0 0 Alliance Labor Confederation 8551 0 0 Three Flags Renewal Party 7691 0 0 Independent Action Alliance 4387 0 0 Front for Change 4307 0 0 Federalist Renewal Movement 3896 0 0 Autonomy and Sovereignty Party 3729 0 0 Conservative People's Party 2802 0 0 Chaco Alliance 2707 0 0 Social Justice 1647 0 0 Popular Alliance 1608 0 0 Tradition and Coherence 1491 0 0 Federal Party 1405 0 0 Autonomous Party 1396 0 0 Mobilization 1345 0 0 Alternative of Change 919 0 0 Christian Socialist Alliance 720 0 0 Liberation Party 664 0 0 Authentic Socialist Party 490 0 0 Popular Line Movement es Movimiento Línea Popular 339 0 0 Nationalist Movement 316 0 0 Democratic Party of La Rioja 293 0 0 326959 77241 19420204 Ministry of the Interior,https://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntos_politicos_y_alectorales/dine/infogral/RESULTADOS%20HISTORICOS/1987.pdf Elecciones Nacionales ESCRUTINIO DEFINITIVO 1987 Ministry of the Interior PDF https://web.archive.org/web/20181228035054/http://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntos_politicos_y_alectorales/dine/infogral/RESULTADOS%20HISTORICOS/1987.pdf 28 December 2018 DINEhttps://recorriendo.elecciones.gob.ar/diputados1987.html#/ Recorriendo las Elecciones de 1983 a 2013 Dirección Nacional Electoral 2020-12-16 2022-03-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20220328222925/https://recorriendo.elecciones.gob.ar/diputados1987.html#/ dead Results by province ProvincePJUCRUCEDEOthers Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % SeatsBuenos Aires2,706,50845.0818 2,254,196 37.5515 377,074 6.282 665,357 11.080Buenos Aires City 477,617 23.933779,39939.066 362,739 18.183 375,878 18.840Catamarca66,40554.091 50,664 41.271 1,054 0.860 4,639 3.780Chaco190,00049.852 174,642 45.821——— 16,486 4.330Chubut58,26244.692 48,754 37.401 2,366 1.810 20,993 16.100Córdoba 649,861 43.894692,87646.805 61,784 4.170 76,137 5.140Corrientes 67,717 18.021 93,828 24.971 7,550 2.010206,67055.002Entre Ríos264,43648.452 232,748 42.642 19,198 3.520 29,441 5.390Formosa74,56550.692 71,151 48.371——— 1,389 0.940Jujuy82,60542.532 70,393 36.241 1,987 1.020 39,259 20.210La Pampa73,92453.631 58,286 42.281——— 5,634 4.090La Rioja59,29260.862 32,892 33.761 491 0.500 4,743 4.870Mendoza315,21646.203 243,321 35.662 5,037 0.740 118,679 17.400Misiones140,49747.972 134,559 45.952 8,918 3.050 8,891 3.040Neuquén 14,863 10.940 39,645 29.181 1,703 1.25079,63558.621Río Negro 61,674 34.20168,40437.941 3,737 2.070 46,494 25.791Salta180,98451.962 93,228 26.761——— 74,128 21.281San Juan112,25943.572 49,450 19.190 19,758 7.670 76,206 29.571San Luis69,07851.351 44,775 33.291 8,546 6.350 12,115 9.010Santa Cruz28,13649.541 26,653 46.931——— 2,000 3.520Santa Fe640,48442.215 408,370 26.913 34,992 2.310 433,643 28.582Santiago del Estero152,36850.602 128,003 42.512 2,048 0.680 18,675 6.200Tucumán 135,501 26.131176,35134.012 8,006 1.540 198,732 38.322 Total 6,622,252 41.29 60 5,972,588 37.24 52 926,988 5.78 5 2,515,824 15.69 10 References Category:Legislative elections in Argentina Legislative Category:Presidency of Raúl Alfonsín