1918 Argentine legislative election
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64 of 120 seats in the National Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 58.48% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
The Argentine legislative elections of 1918 were held on 3 March. Voters chose their legislators and numerous governors, and with a turnout of 56.4%.
Background
President Hipólito Yrigoyen, elected in 1916 in the nation's first, free elections, responded (like numerous other administrations before his) to opposition with less than democratic means: the placing of provincial governments under federal intervention. His first target, Marcelino Ugarte, was the Conservative Governor of Buenos Aires Province (home to over one in three Argentines, and to most of the source of the nation's growing wealth, the Pampas); Ugarte's removal on April 24, 1917, would be followed by six others by the time the first Yrigoyen-era mid-term elections arrived a year later.[1]
The President's lack of support in Congress for these moves (which, on the Ugarte issue, lost a floor vote by 36 to 53), extended to other areas, including foreign policy. Congress rejected Yrigoyen's policy of neutrality, and approved a series of measures in support of the Allied Powers; indeed, the only significant presidential bill supported by Congress during the 1916–18 term was a modest, 5 percent export tariff enacted to finance needed rural public works. Rifts developed within the UCR, itself - notably in the important Santa Fe Province, where Governor Rodolfo Lehmann formed the Dissident UCR in protest over the President's policy over removing governors.[2]
Focused on the crucial Buenos Aires Province gubernatorial race, the UCR nominated one of their most prominent supporters from among the landed gentry,
Ultimately, the UCR repeated its performance in the 1916 legislative races, winning nearly half the vote, and gaining 12 seats. The results left them 5 short of an absolute majority;
Elections to the Senate, held in April, 1919, significantly enhanced the UCR's presence in the body, where opposition to Yrigoyen's populist agenda had been strongest. The party won 7 of the 10 seats at stake, including the crucial
Results
Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats | |
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Radical Civic Union (UCR) | 349,090 | 47.01 | 36 | 59 | |
Total Conservative Parties | 167,164 | 22.51 | 18 | 37 | |
Conservative Party | 68,195 | 9.18 | 5 | — | |
Popular Concentration | 35,879 | 4.83 | 7 | — | |
Liberal Party of Corrientes | 14,322 | 1.93 | 3 | — | |
Liberal Party of Tucumán | 14,054 | 1.89 | 1 | — | |
Democratic Union | 9,220 | 1.24 | — | — | |
Autonomist Party of Corrientes | 8,759 | 1.18 | — | — | |
Provincial Union | 8,646 | 1.16 | 2 | — | |
Catamarca Concentration | 8,089 | 1.09 | — | — | |
Socialist Party (PS) | 65,099 | 8.77 | 3 | 6 | |
Dissident Radical Civic Union (UCR-D) | 61,384 | 8.27 | 4 | 8 | |
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | 57,826 | 7.79 | 1 | 8 | |
Argentine Socialist Party (PSA) | 35,309 | 4.75 | — | — | |
International Socialist Party
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2,753 | 0.37 | — | — | |
Unitarian Party | 1,242 | 0.17 | — | — | |
For the National Intervention | 690 | 0.09 | — | — | |
Independent Youth | 416 | 0.06 | — | — | |
Others | 1,652 | 0.22 | — | — | |
Vacant seats | 2 | 2 | |||
Total | 742,625 | 100 | 64 | 120 | |
Positive votes | 742,625 | 97.42 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 19.674 | 2.58 | |||
Total votes | 762,299 | 100 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 1,303,446 | 58.48 | |||
Sources:[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] |
References
- ^ a b c Walter, Richard. The Province of Buenos Aires and Argentine Politics, 1912-1943. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- ^ Todo Argentina: 1918 Archived 2018-08-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Todo Argentina: 1917 Archived 2018-10-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ^ Nohlen, Dieter. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook. Oxford University Press, 2005.
- ^ a b Rock, David. Argentina: 1516-1982. University of California Press, 1987.
- ^ Cantón, Darío (1968). Materiales para el estudio de la sociología política en la Argentina (PDF). Vol. Tomo I. Buenos Aires: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales - Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. p. 87.
- ^ Las Fuerzas Armadas restituyen el imperio de la soberanía popular: Las elecciones generales de 1946 (PDF). Vol. Tomo I. Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Cámara de Diputados. 1946. p. 376-381.
- ^ Expediente 42-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 7-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 10-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 35-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 59-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 45-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 23-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 57-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 24-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Expediente 50-D-1918 (PDF). Cámara de Diputados de la Nación Argentina. 1918.
- ^ Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Diputados - Año 1918. Vol. Tomo II. Buenos Aires: Talleres Gráficos Argentinos de L. J. Rosso y Cía. 1918. p. 589.