| Election Name: | 1853 Argentine general election |
| Country: | Argentine Confederation |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1826 Argentine presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1826 |
| Next Election: | 1860 Argentine presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1860 |
| Election Date: | 1 November 1853 |
| Votes For Election: | 106 members of the Electoral College |
| Needed Votes: | 54 |
| Nominee1: | Justo José de Urquiza |
| Party1: | Federal |
| Color1: | B31B1B |
| Electoral Vote1: | 91 |
| States Carried1: | 10 |
| Percentage1: | 88.3% |
| Nominee2: | Mariano Fragueiro |
| Party2: | Unitarian |
| Color2: | ADD8E6 |
| Electoral Vote2: | 7 |
| States Carried2: | 1 |
| Percentage2: | 6.8% |
| Map Size: | 230px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Justo José de Urquiza (As Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation) |
| Before Party: | Federal |
| After Election: | Justo José de Urquiza |
| After Party: | Federal |
The Argentine presidential election of 1853 was held on 1 November to choose the first president of the Argentine Confederation for the period 1854-1860. Justo José de Urquiza was elected president by a wide margin.
It was the first presidential election after the unification of the country in 1852, after Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros on 3 February 1852. The State of Buenos Aires seceded on 11 September 1852 and did not participate in elections until 1862.
| Argentine Confederation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Population | 640,000 | |
| Voters | 6,400 | |
| Turnout | 1% | |
| Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justo José de Urquiza | Federal | 91 | |
| Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian | 7 | |
| Pedro Ferré | Federal | 1 | |
| Vicente López y Planes | — | 1 | |
| José María Paz | Unitarian | 1 | |
| Benjamín Virasoro | Federal | 1 | |
| Facundo Zuviría | Unitarian | 1 | |
| Total voters | 103 | ||
| Did not vote | 3 | ||
| Total | 106 | ||
| Vice Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes | Congress Vote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvador María del Carril | Unitarian | 35 | 17 | |
| Facundo Zuviría | Unitarian | 22 | 1 | |
| Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian | 20 | ||
| Rudecindo Alvarado | Unitarian | 13 | ||
| Benjamín Virasoro | Federal | 8 | ||
| Juan Bautista Alberdi | — | 7 | ||
| Pedro Ferré | Federal | 1 | ||
| Total | 106 | 18 | ||
| Province | President | Vice President | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urquiza | Fragueiro | Ferré | López y Planes | Paz | Virasoro | Zuviría | del Carril | Zuviría | Fragueiro | Alvarado | Virasoro | Alberdi | Ferré | |||
| 9 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||||
| 16 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 5 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Did not vote | Did not vote | |||||||||||||||
| Did not vote | Did not vote | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 91 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 22 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 1 | ||