1960 Argentine legislative election
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102 of 192 seats in the Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 86.90% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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The Argentine legislative elections of 1960 was held on 27 March. Voters chose their legislators, and with a turnout of 87%.
Background
President
Shell Petroleum facility in March 1960, leading to the enactment of the Conintes Plan - a further, severe limitation on political freedoms.[3]
Frondizi bore the brunt of public disapproval over these developments; in reality, however, both decisions were signed on the insistence of the
UCRI congressional candidates went from nearly half the 1958 vote to only 27% - though they retained their overall majority since its loss of seats was more moderate (mostly to Ricardo Balbín's more conservative UCR-P). Peronists' blank votes resulted in one of the highest such incidences (25%) in Argentine electoral history.[2]
Results
Communist Party (PCA) 20,145 | 0.31 | – | – | | |||||
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| Labour Gathering Party (CO) | 9,098 | 0.14 | – | – | |||||
| Red and White Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 8,625 | 0.13 | – | – | |||||
| Progressive Action | 7,466 | 0.11 | – | – | |||||
| Authentic Radical Civic Union | 6,909 | 0.10 | – | – | |||||
| Christian Democratic People's Union | 6,623 | 0.10 | – | – | |||||
| Popular Liberation | 6,257 | 0.10 | – | – | |||||
| Agrarian Social Party | 6,124 | 0.09 | – | – | |||||
| Antipersonalist Radical Civic Union (UCRA) | 5,944 | 0.09 | – | – | |||||
| Independent Civic Party | 5,314 | 0.08 | – | – | |||||
| Popular Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 4,469 | 0.07 | – | – | |||||
| Salta National Liberation Party | 2,891 | 0.04 | – | – | |||||
| Formosa Civic Union | 2,577 | 0.04 | – | – | |||||
| Federal Agrarian Labour Party | 2,022 | 0.03 | – | – | |||||
| Agrarian Labour Party | 1,223 | 0.02 | – | – | |||||
| Radical Recovery Movement | 1,119 | 0.02 | – | – | |||||
| Radical Civic Union - Core Unity | 913 | 0.01 | – | – | |||||
| Total | 6,585,301 | 100.00 | 102 | 192 | |||||
| Valid votes | 6,585,301 | 74.86 | |||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 2,211,244 | 25.14 | |||||||
| Total votes | 8,796,545 | 100.00 | |||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 10,122,800 | 86.90 | |||||||
| Source: [5][6][7] | |||||||||
Results by province
| Province | UCRP | UCRI | Center Parties | Others | ||||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
| Buenos Aires | 753,702 | 34.55 | 18 | 507,283 | 23.25 | 8 | 272,574 | 12.49 | — | 648,220 | 29.71 | — |
Buenos Aires City
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371,530 | 29.00 | 13 | 307,145 | 23.98 | 5 | 79,307 | 6.19 | — | 523,101 | 40.83 | — |
| Catamarca | 18,980 | 35.83 | 2 | 18,477 | 34.88 | — | 7,054 | 13.32 | — | 8,462 | 15.97 | — |
| Chaco | 49,688 | 37.10 | 2 | 46,075 | 34.40 | 1 | 9,341 | 6.97 | — | 28,836 | 21.53 | — |
| Chubut | 9,715 | 30.69 | — | 11,971 | 37.82 | 1 | 2,444 | 7.72 | — | 7,526 | 23.77 | — |
| Córdoba | 294,251 | 44.33 | 6 | 189,458 | 28.54 | 3 | 102,019 | 15.37 | — | 78,046 | 11.76 | — |
| Corrientes | 12,042 | 6.19 | — | 63,251 | 32.52 | 2 | 104,624 | 53.79 | 1 | 14,586 | 7.50 | — |
| Entre Ríos | 111,882 | 37.71 | 5 | 87,642 | 29.54 | 2 | 56,779 | 19.14 | — | 40,412 | 13.62 | — |
| Formosa | 12,763 | 38.56 | — | 12,949 | 39.12 | 2 | — | — | — | 7,386 | 22.32 | — |
| La Rioja | 17,100 | 41.19 | — | 17,395 | 41.90 | 2 | 5,015 | 12.08 | — | 2,002 | 4.82 | — |
| Mendoza | 66,199 | 23.92 | 1 | 60,813 | 21.97 | — | 101,909 | 36.82 | 2 | 47,846 | 17.29 | — |
| Misiones | 28,173 | 38.15 | 1 | 30,204 | 40.90 | 2 | 3,107 | 4.21 | — | 12,373 | 16.75 | — |
| Neuquén | 7,081 | 28.97 | — | 7,523 | 30.77 | 1 | 2,177 | 8.91 | — | 7,665 | 31.35 | — |
| Salta | 27,395 | 27.95 | — | 31,475 | 32.11 | 1 | 25,119 | 25.62 | — | 14,041 | 14.32 | — |
| San Luis | 5,925 | 9.12 | — | 28,265 | 43.50 | 2 | 27,843 | 42.85 | — | 2,943 | 4.53 | — |
| Santa Cruz | 2,564 | 31.64 | — | 2,724 | 33.61 | 2 | 1,130 | 13.94 | — | 1,686 | 20.80 | — |
| Santa Fe | 218,421 | 28.80 | 3 | 235,370 | 31.03 | 7 | 25,236 | 3.33 | — | 279,380 | 36.84 | — |
| Santiago del Estero | 47,876 | 33.98 | 1 | 60,906 | 43.23 | 2 | 7,505 | 5.33 | — | 24,608 | 17.47 | — |
| Tucumán | 36,416 | 15.92 | — | 73,570 | 32.16 | 3 | 14,027 | 6.13 | — | 104,773 | 45.80 | 1 |
| Total | 2,091,703 | 31.76 | 52 | 1,792,496 | 27.22 | 46 | 847,210 | 12.87 | 3 | 1,853,892 | 28.15 | 1 |
References
- ^ Todo Argentina: 1959 (in Spanish)
- ^ a b Rock, David. Argentina: 1516-1982. University of California Press, 1987.
- ^ Página/12 (in Spanish)
- ^ Potash, Robert. The Army and Politics in Argentina. Stanford University Press, 1996.
- ^ Cantón, Darío (1968). Materiales para el estudio de la sociología política en la Argentina (PDF). Vol. Tomo I. Buenos Aires: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales - Torcuato di Tella Institute. pp. 199–204.
- ^ Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007) (PDF). Ministry of Interior - Subsecretaría de Asuntos Políticos y Electorales. December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2014.
- ISBN 0-19-928358-3.
