1963 Argentine general election
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Registered | 11,356,240 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 85.50% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 85.60% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
The Argentine general election of 1963 was held on 7 July. Voters chose both the President and their legislators; with a turnout of 85.6%, resulting in the election of
Background
The spectre of military intervention so much in evidence after the election of
The matter of Frondizi's successor, itself, became a subject of contention within the armed forces. The two opposing camps defined themselves as either "Blues" ((in Spanish) Azules, at pains to maintain a patina of legality over the destabilizing intervention) or "Reds" ((in Spanish) Colorados, lacking any compunction against imposing a prolonged and repressive dictatorship). The stalemate lasted merely a day because most of the Army High Command were "Blues," whose preference of a "legal" solution to the vacuum was supported by most of the press and the Argentine public,[2] then enjoying Latin America's widest access to the media.[3] Relying on constitutional guidelines, they named the reluctant Senate President José María Guido Head of State.[2]
Guido, a moderate senator from then-remote Río Negro Province, had been elected on Frondizi's 's UCRI ticket. His prompt resignation from the UCRI and annulment of the March 18 mid-term elections did not immediately dispel the threat of a coup attempt, however, and mutinies in April and August resulted in the appointment of Army General Juan Carlos Onganía (who successfully rebelled against his "Red" superiors) as Head of the Military Joint Chiefs. The more stable military panorama was overshadowed by economic worries.[2] Following a brief period of robust growth led by industrial production, President Guido's economic team, led by Alsogaray, imposed a fresh devaluation and austerity measures such as strict credit controls and even the payment of state salaries with nearly-worthless bonds. GDP fell by 4% in 1962-63 and unemployment rose to nearly 9%.[4]
The
The UCRI, as they had done in 1958, initially hoped to secure the exiled
Against opposition from former Buenos Aires Governor
Hamstrung by Frondizi's open enmity against Alende for the latter's rejection of the ultimately aborted Front, as well as Perón's call for blank ballots, Alende's UCRI was defeated in an upset by Dr. Arturo Illia and the UCRP.[4]
The renewed ban on the participation of Peronist candidates resulted in the highest percentage of blank votes in Argentine electoral history;[4] Leloir's Three Flags ticket received 4 electoral votes.[7]
Candidates for President
- Radical Civic Union (centrist): Former Deputy Arturo Umberto Illia of Córdoba
- Intransigent Radical Civic Union (center-left): Former Governor Oscar Alende of Buenos Aires
- UDELPA (conservative): Former de facto President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu of Córdoba
- National Federation of Center Parties (conservative): Former Córdoba Mayor Emilio Olmos
- Christian Democratic Party (centrist): Former Deputy Horacio Sueldo of Buenos Aires
- Socialist Party: Former Senator Alfredo Palacios of Buenos Aires
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Illia
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Alende
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Aramburu
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Sueldo
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Palacios
Results
President
Presidential candidate |
Vice Presidential candidate |
Party | Popular vote | Electoral vote | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
Arturo Umberto Illia | Carlos Humberto Perette | People's Radical Civic Union (UCRP) | 2,441,064 | 31.90 | 171 | 35.92 | |
Oscar Alende | Celestino Gelsi | Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI) | 1,593,002 | 20.82 | 107 | 22.48 | |
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | Total Aramburu | 1,362,596 | 17.81 | 73 | 15.34 | ||
Arturo J. Etchevehere | Union of the Argentine People (UDELPA) | 726,861 | 9.50 | 41 | 8.61 | ||
Horacio Thedy | Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | 619,481 | 8.10 | 29 | 6.09 | ||
Misiones Alliance | 14,453 | 0.19 | 3 | 0.63 | |||
Union of the Argentine People-Popular Democratic Party | 1,801 | 0.02 | |||||
Emilio Olmos Jr. | Emilio Jofré | National Federation of Center Parties (FNPC)
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511,779 | 6.69 | 32 | 6.72 | |
Horacio Sueldo | Francisco Eduardo Cerro | Christian Democratic Party (PDC) | 434,823 | 5.68 | 23 | 4.83 | |
Alfredo Palacios | Ramón I. Soria | Argentine Socialist Party (PSA) | 278,856 | 3.64 | 12 | 2.52 | |
Alfredo Orgaz | Rodolfo Fitte | Democratic Socialist Party (PSD) | 258,787 | 3.38 | 10 | 2.10 | |
Justo León Bengoa | Total Bengoa | 150,771 | 1.97 | 5 | 1.05 | ||
Social Justice Party | 83,302 | 1.09 | 4 | 0.84 | |||
National Front Movement | 40,164 | 0.52 | 1 | 0.21 | |||
Labour Party (PL) | 20,560 | 0.27 | |||||
National Independent Party | 6,745 | 0.09 | |||||
Alejandro Leloir | Three Flags Party | 113,941 | 1.49 | 7 | 1.47 | ||
White Party | 70,860 | 0.93 | 4 | 0.84 | |||
Liberal Party of Corrientes (PL) | 59,696 | 0.78 | 5 | 1.05 | |||
Blockist Radical Civic Union (UCRB) | 46,088 | 0.60 | 4 | 0.84 | |||
Democratic Federal Movement | 42,116 | 0.55 | 5 | 1.05 | |||
Autonomist Party of Corrientes (PA) | 38,907 | 0.51 | 3 | 0.63 | |||
Agrarian Social Party | 37,630 | 0.49 | |||||
Renewal Crusade Radical Civic Union (UCRCR) | 31,718 | 0.41 | 2 | 0.42 | |||
National Union | 30,730 | 0.40 | 1 | 0.21 | |||
Provincial Defense - White Flag | 23,437 | 0.31 | 2 | 0.42 | |||
Juan Francisco Castro | National Action | 22,993 | 0.30 | ||||
Neuquén People's Movement (MPN) | 20,648 | 0.27 | 6 | 1.26 | |||
Provincial Party | 16,086 | 0.21 | 2 | 0.42 | |||
Colorado Party | 10,929 | 0.14 | 1 | 0.21 | |||
Democratic Conservative People's Party | 10,493 | 0.14 | |||||
Socialist Party (PS) | 9,483 | 0.12 | |||||
People's Party | 9,371 | 0.12 | |||||
Democratic Concentration | 6,028 | 0.08 | |||||
Popular Intransigent Radical Civic Union | 5,301 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.21 | |||
Misiones Popular Civic Union | 4,212 | 0.06 | |||||
Blue and White Party | 3,993 | 0.05 | |||||
La Rioja Radical Civic Union | 2,705 | 0.04 | |||||
Autonomist Democratic Party | 1,337 | 0.02 | |||||
Formosa Civic Union | 945 | 0.01 | |||||
Argentine Socialist Vanguard Party | 475 | 0.01 | |||||
Conservative Provincial Workers Party | 185 | 0.00 | |||||
Total | 7,651,985 | 100 | |||||
Positive votes | 7,651,985 | 78.80 | |||||
Blank votes | 1,884,435 | 19.41 | |||||
Invalid votes | 173,696 | 1.79 | |||||
Total votes | 9,710,116 | 100 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 11,356,240 | 85.50 | |||||
Sources:[8][9] |
Chamber of Deputies
Party | Votes | % | Seats 1963-1965 |
Seats 1963-1967 |
Total seats | |
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People's Radical Civic Union (UCRP) | 2,419,268 | 30.68 | 36 | 36 | 72 | |
Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI) | 1,541,452 | 19.55 | 20 | 20 | 40 | |
Union of the Argentine People (UDELPA) | 656,129 | 8.32 | 6 | 7 | 13 | |
Democratic Progressive Party (PDP) | 555,891 | 7.05 | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
National Federation of Center Parties (FNPC)
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449,065 | 5.69 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Christian Democratic Party (PDC) | 436,922 | 5.54 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
Argentine Socialist Party (PSA) | 306,870 | 3.89 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Democratic Socialist Party (PSD) | 306,648 | 3.89 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Popular Union (UP)
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193,091 | 2.45 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Three Flags Party | 113,715 | 1.44 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
White Party | 71,149 | 0.90 | — | 1 | 1 | |
Social Justice Party | 66,976 | 0.85 | 1 | — | 1 | |
Liberal Party of Corrientes (PLCo) | 61,250 | 0.78 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
National Labour Party | 54,449 | 0.69 | — | 2 | 2 | |
Workers' White Party | 46,777 | 0.59 | — | 2 | 2 | |
Blockist Radical Civic Union (UCRB) | 45,395 | 0.58 | 1 | — | 1 | |
Democratic Federal Movement | 42,481 | 0.54 | — | 1 | 1 | |
Autonomist Party of Corrientes (PA) | 39,943 | 0.51 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Renewal Crusade Radical Civic Union (UCRCR) | 32,050 | 0.41 | 1 | — | 1 | |
Provincial Defense - White Flag | 24,422 | 0.31 | — | 1 | 1 | |
San Luis Popular Action | 23,126 | 0.29 | 1 | — | 1 | |
Neuquén People's Movement (MPN) | 20,572 | 0.26 | 2 | — | 2 | |
Provincial Party | 16,335 | 0.21 | 1 | — | 1 | |
Misiones Alliance (UDELPA-PDP) | 12,110 | 0.15 | — | 1 | 1 | |
Others | 349,327 | 4.43 | — | — | — | |
Total | 7,885,413 | 100 | 96 | 96 | 192 | |
Positive votes | 7,885,413 | 81.12 | ||||
Blank votes | 1,642,522 | 16.90 | ||||
Invalid votes | 192,766 | 1.98 | ||||
Total votes | 9,720,701 | 100 | ||||
Registered voters/turnout | 11,356,240 | 85.60 | ||||
Source:[10] |
References
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- ^ a b c d e f Potash, Robert (1996). The Army and Politics in Argentina. Stanford University Press.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year, 1965: communications.
- ^ a b c "Todo Argentina: 1963". Archived from the original on 2009-02-18. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
- ^ McGuire, James (1997). Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina. Stanford University Press.
- ^ "Murió el ingeniero Emilio Olmos". La Nación.
- ISBN 0-19-928358-3.
- ^ 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. 227–232.
- ^ 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.
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