1898_Argentine_presidential_election
The Argentine presidential election of 1898 was held on 10 April to choose the president of Argentina and 79 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Julio Argentino Roca was elected president for a second period.
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Presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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300 members of the Electoral College 151 votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative election | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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79 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Having obtained the aging Luis Sáenz Peña's resignation in favor of Vice President José Evaristo Uriburu (who was good stead with both Roca and Mitre), Roca once again carried the PAN standard in 1898. The UCR, which had lost its founder, Leandro Alem, to suicide in 1896, was divided between those who backed Senator Bernardo de Irigoyen's drive to form coalitions with more conservative parties, and those who supported the party's new leader, Hipólito Yrigoyen (who boycotted this and future "election songs" – establishing what later became known as the UCR's "break before bending" policy).[1] Public debate was heated on the eve of the January 30 elections to a constitutional assembly entrusted to increase the number of congressmen and cabinet members, as well before the April 10, 1898, general election. The electoral college yielded no surprises, though, and Roca was returned to the presidency.[2]
President
| Argentine Republic | |
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| Population | 4,462,000 |
| Voters | 89,200 |
| Turnout | 2% |
| Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes |
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| Julio Argentino Roca | National Autonomist Party | 218 |
| Bartolomé Mitre | National Civic Union | 38 |
| Total voters | 256 | |
| Did not vote | 44 | |
| Total | 300 | |
| Vice Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes |
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| Norberto Quirno Costa | National Autonomist Party | 217 |
| Juan Eusebio Torrent | National Civic Union | 23 |
| Valentín Virasoro | Liberal Party of Corrientes | 7 |
| Julio Argentino Roca | National Autonomist Party | 6 |
| Lino D. Churruarín | Radical Civic Union | 1 |
| Emilio E. Gouchón | Radical Civic Union | 1 |
| Bartolomé Mitre | National Civic Union | 1 |
| Total voters | 256 | |
| Did not vote | 44 | |
| Total | 300 | |
Results by Province
| Province | President | Vice President | ||||||||
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| Roca | Mitre | Quirno Costa | Torrent | Virasoro | Roca | Churruarín | Gouchón | Mitre | ||
| Buenos Aires City | 22 | 13 | 22 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Buenos Aires | 23 | 18 | 23 | 13 | 5[lower-alpha 1] | |||||
| Catamarca | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
| Córdoba | 24 | 24 | ||||||||
| Corrientes | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Entre Ríos | 20 | 19 | 1 | |||||||
| Jujuy | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| La Rioja | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| Mendoza | 11 | 11 | ||||||||
| Salta | 9 | 9 | ||||||||
| San Juan | 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| San Luis | 9 | 9 | ||||||||
| Santa Fe | 28 | 28 | ||||||||
| Santiago del Estero | 14 | 14 | ||||||||
| Tucumán | 17 | 17 | ||||||||
| Total | 218 | 38 | 217 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Chamber of Deputies
National Autonomist Party and its allies won all 79 seats in the election.
- Levene, Ricardo. A History of Argentina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
- Todo Argentina: 1898 Archived 2017-11-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Diario de Sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Período de 1898. Buenos Aires: Imprenta del "Boletín Oficial". 1898. p. 220.
- Duhalde, Eduardo Luis (2007). Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 232. ISBN 978-950-563-460-6.
- "Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007), p. 58" (PDF). www.mininterior.gov.ar. Ministry of the Interior. December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2017.