| Election Name: | 1860 Argentine general election |
| Country: | Argentine Confederation |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Votes For Election: | 125 members of the Electoral College |
| Needed Votes: | 63 |
| Previous Election: | 1853 Argentine presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1853 |
| Next Election: | 1862 Argentine presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1862 |
| Election Date: | 6 February 1860 |
| Nominee1: | Santiago Derqui |
| Party1: | Federal |
| Color1: | B31B1B |
| Electoral Vote1: | 72 |
| States Carried1: | 9 |
| Percentage1: | 57.6% |
| Nominee2: | Mariano Fragueiro |
| Party2: | Unitarian |
| Color2: | ADD8E6 |
| Electoral Vote2: | 46 |
| States Carried2: | 4 |
| Percentage2: | 36.8% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Justo José de Urquiza |
| Before Party: | Federal |
| After Election: | Santiago Derqui |
| After Party: | Federal |
| Map Size: | 200px |
The Argentine presidential election of 1860 was held on 6 February to choose the second president of the Argentine Confederation. Santiago Derqui was elected president.
The Buenos Aires Province seceded from the Confederation as the State of Buenos Aires on 11 September 1852 and did not participate in elections until 1862.
| Argentine Confederation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,280,000 | |
| Voters | 12,800 | |
| Turnout | 1% | |
| Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago Derqui | Federal | 72 | |
| Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian | 46 | |
| Salvador María del Carril | Unitarian | 4 | |
| Juan Bautista Alberdi | — | 2 | |
| Tomás Guido | — | 1 | |
| Total | 125 | ||
| Vice Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes | Congress Vote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcos Paz | — | 49 | 22 | |
| Juan Esteban Pedernera | Unitarian | 45 | 32 | |
| Benjamín Virasoro | Federal | 17 | ||
| Juan Gregorio Pujol | Federal | 12 | ||
| Juan Bautista Alberdi | — | 1 | ||
| Santiago Derqui | Federal | 1 | ||
| Total | 125 | 54 | ||
| Province | President | Vice President | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derqui | Fragueiro | del Carril | Guido | Alberdi | Paz | Pedernera | Virasoro | Pujol | Alberdi | Derqui | |||
| 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 16 | 15 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Did not vote | Did not vote | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 72 | 46 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 45 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 1 | ||