1954 Argentine general election
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Vice Presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Registered | 9,222,075 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 85.58% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 April 1954 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 of 155 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 9 of 14 non-voting delegates in the Chamber of Deputies 18 of 34 seats in the Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 85.99% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
The Argentine General election of 1954 was held on 25 April. Voters chose both their legislators and the
Background
The death of his wife and closest advisor,
Controversy surrounding Perón's in-laws and political violence both by and against his
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.[2]
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. 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.[3]
Results
Vice president
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Communist Party (PCA) | 89,624 | 1.16 | ||
Luciano Molinas | Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | 54,054 | 0.70 | |
José Fernando Penelón | Labour Gathering Party (CO) | 3,183 | 0.04 | |
Total | 7,739,939 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 7,739,939 | 98.07 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 152,422 | 1.93 | ||
Total votes | 7,892,361 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,222,075 | 85.58 | ||
Source: National University of San Martín |
Chamber of Deputies
Party | Votes | % | Deputies | Non-voting delegates | |||
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Won | Total | Won | Total | ||||
Peronist Party (PP)
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4,977,586 | 64.28 | 74 | 143 | 9 | 14 | |
Radical Civic Union (UCR) | 2,502,109 | 32.31 | 5 | 12 | — | — | |
National Democratic Party (PDN)
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104,006 | 1.34 | — | — | — | — | |
Communist Party (PCA)
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88,007 | 1.14 | — | — | — | — | |
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | 46,077 | 0.60 | — | — | — | — | |
Socialist Party of the National Revolution (PS RN) | 22,516 | 0.29 | — | — | — | — | |
Labour Gathering Party (CO) | 3,183 | 0.04 | — | — | — | — | |
Total | 7,743,484 | 100 | 79 | 155 | 9 | 14 | |
Positive votes | 7,743,484 | 97.93 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 163,374 | 2.07 | |||||
Total votes | 7,906,858 | 100 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,194,157 | 85.99 | |||||
Source:[4] |
Senate
Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats | |
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Peronist Party (PP)
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18 | 34 | |||
Radical Civic Union (UCR) | — | — | |||
National Democratic Party (PDN)
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— | — | |||
Communist Party (PCA)
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— | — | |||
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | — | — | |||
Socialist Party of the National Revolution (PS RN) | — | — | |||
Total | 18 | 34 | |||
Positive votes | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | |||||
Total votes | 100 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout |
Notes
- ^ Todo Argentina: 1953 (in Spanish)
- ^ Potash, Robert. The Army and Politics in Argentina. Stanford University Press, 1996.
- ^ Todo Argentina: 1954 (in Spanish)
- ISBN 0-19-928358-3.