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 theChamber of Deputies 9 of 14 non-voting delegates in theChamber of Deputies 18 of 34 seats in theSenate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 85.99% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TheArgentine General election of 1954was held on 25 April. Voters chose both their legislators and theVice-PresidentofArgentina;with a turnout of 85%.
Background
[edit]The death of his wife and closest advisor,Evita,stuck PresidentJuan Perónamid serious difficulties. A severe drought in 1952 and years of pessimism in Argentina's importantagrarian sectordepletedforeign reservesand forced Perón to curtail public lending and spending programs. The recession (and abumper crop) did, however, allowCentral Bankreserves to recover and brought inflation (50% in 1951) to single digits.[1]
Controversy surrounding Perón's in-laws and political violence both by and against hisPeronistmovement had dogged the president in the first half of 1953, and he took the opportunity of upcoming legislative polls to test his popularity. TheArgentine Constitutiondid not require it at the time, but the President announced a special election to replace the late Vice President,Hortensio Quijano.Dr. Quijano had died on April 3, 1952, two months and one day before his term was to have ended on June 4, 1952. Perón nominated SenatorAlberto Teisaireas the candidate for the then named Partido Peronista (Peronist Party).
Teisaire was familiar to Perón from the 1943coup d'état;the formerrear admiralhad helped retain the normally restiveNavy's support for the populist leader before and after Perón's 1946 election and, after eight years in theSenate,he remained close to the military - a far from trivial consideration.[2]
In the opposition since 15 years before Perón took office, the centristUCRhad been burdened bycensorshipand 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 wasCrisólogo 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
[edit]Vice president
[edit]| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Alberto Teisaire | Peronist Party(PP) | 4,994,106 | 64.52 | |
| Crisólogo Larralde | Radical Civic Union(UCR) | 2,493,422 | 32.22 | |
| Benito de Miguel | National Democratic Party(PDN) | 105,550 | 1.36 | |
| Alcira de la Peña | 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
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| Party | Votes | % | Deputies | Non-voting delegates | |||
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| Won | Total | Won | Total | ||||
| Peronist Party(PP) | 4,977,586 | 64.28 | 74 | 143 | 9 | 14 | |
| Radical Civic Union(UCR) | 2,502,109 | 32.31 | 5 | 12 | — | — | |
| National Democratic Party(PDN) | 104,006 | 1.34 | — | — | — | — | |
| Communist Party(PCA) | 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
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats | |
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| Peronist Party(PP) | 18 | 34 | |||
| Radical Civic Union(UCR) | — | — | |||
| National Democratic Party(PDN) | — | — | |||
| Communist Party(PCA) | — | — | |||
| Democratic Progressive Party(PDP) | — | — | |||
| Socialist Party of the National Revolution(PS RN) | — | — | |||
| Total | 18 | 34 | |||
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| Invalid/blank votes | |||||
| Total votes | 100 | ||||
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Notes
[edit]- ^Todo Argentina: 1953(in Spanish)
- ^Potash, Robert.The Army and Politics in Argentina.Stanford University Press, 1996.
- ^Todo Argentina: 1954(in Spanish)
- ^Nohlen, Dieter(2005).Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook.Vol. II: South America. Nueva York:Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-928358-3.
