1910 Argentine general election explained

Election Name:	1910 Argentine general election
Country:	Argentina
Module:	Embed: yes Election Name: Presidential election Type: presidential Ongoing: no Votes For Election: 300 members of the Electoral College Needed Votes: 151 Previous Election: 1904 Argentine presidential election Previous Year: 1904 Next Election: 1916 Argentine general election Next Year: 1916 Election Date: 13 March 1910 Image1: Roque S Peña.jpg Image1 Size: 100px Nominee1: Roque Sáenz Peña Party1: National Autonomist Party Color1: 30D5C8 Running Mate1: Victorino de la Plaza Electoral Vote1: 265 States Carried1: 15 Percentage1: 99.6% Image2 Size: 100px Nominee2: Adolfo Contte Party2: Liberal Party of Corrientes Color2: c2daef Running Mate2: Valentín Virasoro Electoral Vote2: 1 States Carried2: 0 Percentage2: 0.4% Module: Embed: yes Election Name: Legislative election First Election: yes Previous Election: 1908 Next Election: 1912 Election Date: 13 March 1910 Seats For Election: 63 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies Noleader: yes Nopercentage: yes Color1: 30D5C8 Party1: National Autonomist Party Seats1: 63 President Before Election: José Figueroa Alcorta Before Party: National Autonomist Party After Election: Roque Sáenz Peña After Party: National Autonomist Party

The Argentine presidential election of 1910 was held on 13 March to choose the president of Argentina and 63 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Roque Sáenz Peña was elected president.

Background

The ailing President Quintana's death in 1906 was the beginning of the end of Roca's dominance of national politics and policy. Moderate opposition to the PAN had greatly eroded its majorities in Congress, the very day the president died, and within months, Bartolomé Mitre and Carlos Pellegrini were dead, as well. President José Figueroa Alcorta defied Roca by signing many of Congressman Palacios' labor law reform bills and by 1909, Figueroa Alcorta was poised to nominate the reformist who had been turned away in 1892: Roque Sáenz Peña.^[1]

Other prominent conservatives, such as La Nación publisher Emilio Mitre and Buenos Aires Governor Marcelino Ugarte, presented token candidacies. Sáenz Peña, who was the Ambassador to Italy and did not campaign, was selected unanimously on April 12, 1910. He promptly began negotiations with UCR leader Hipólito Yrigoyen for the introduction of legislation providing for universal male suffrage and the secret ballot. The president struggled over the bill with a still-conservative Congress, and on 10 February 1912, the Senate narrowly passed Law 8871. Providing for free and fair elections, as well as for the country's first uniform system of voter registration, the Sáenz Peña Law brought the prolonged "vote song" to an end.^[2]

Results

President

Argentine Republic
Population	7,092,000
Voters	199,000
Turnout	2.8%

Presidential Candidates	Party	Electoral Votes
Roque Sáenz Peña	National Autonomist Party	265
Adolfo Contte	Liberal Party of Corrientes	1
Total voters		266
Did not vote		34
Total		300

Vice Presidential Candidates	Party	Electoral Votes
Victorino de la Plaza	National Autonomist Party	262
Indalecio Gómez	—	2
Manuel María de Iriondo	Radical Civic Union	1
Valentín Virasoro	Liberal Party of Corrientes	1
Total voters		266
Did not vote		34
Total		300

Results by Province

Province	President			Vice President
	Sáenz Peña	Contte		de la Plaza	Gómez	de Iriondo	Virasoro
	41			41
	49			49
	9			9
	24			21	2	1
	16	1		16			1
	19			19
	6			6
	7			7
	12			12
	12			12
	10			10
	10			10
	25			25
	9			9
	16			16
Total	265	1		262	2	1	1

Chamber of Deputies

National Autonomist Party and its allies won all 63 seats in the election.

References

• Book: 1910 . Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Año 1910 - Tomo I. Buenos Aires . Establecimiento Tipográfico "El Comercio" . 336–354 .
• Book: Duhalde, Eduardo Luis. 2007. Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke. Buenos Aires. Colihue. 232. 978-950-563-460-6.
• Web site: Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007), p. 58. December 2008. www.mininterior.gov.ar. Ministry of the Interior. 13 June 2017. 8 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140908165849/https://www.mininterior.gov.ar/asuntospoliticos/pdf/HistoriaElectoralArgentina.pdf. dead.

Notes and References

1. http://todo-argentina.net/historia/gen80/SaenzPena(1910-1916)/1910.html Todo Argentina: 1910
2. http://todo-argentina.net/historia/gen80/SaenzPena(1910-1916)/1912.html Todo Argentina: 1912