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The first free elections under the Sáenz Peña regime were held in 1916. [1] Women did not have the right to vote in Argentina until 1947, when Law 13.010 ("on political rights for women") was sanctioned during the government of Juan Domingo Perón. [2] Women first voted in a national election in 1951.
This election was the first to have extended suffrage to Argentine women and the first in Argentina to be televised: Perón was inaugurated on Channel 7 public television that October. He began his second term in June 1952 with serious economic problems, however, compounded by a severe drought that helped lead to a US$ 500 million trade deficit ...
Conservative forces dominated Argentine politics until 1916, when their traditional rivals, the Radicals, led by Hipólito Yrigoyen, won control of the government through the first national elections made at universal male suffrage, due to the 1912 Sáenz Peña Law. 745,000 citizens were allowed to vote, on a total population of 7.5 million (immigrants, who constituted much of the population ...
Free indirect elections. First term. Reelection enabled by the Constitution of 1949. Hortensio Quijano (Died 3 April 1952) [48] Vacant: 4 June 1952 19 September 1955 1951: Peronist: Free direct elections. Second term. First election to allow women's suffrage. Victory with 62.49% of votes, highest victory in Argentine elections.
Amid somewhat lower turnout, results were mixed: The UCR continued to make gains in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Argentina's National Congress, electing 19 of the 60 seats at stake. They fared particularly well in Entre Ríos and Santa Fe Province , in which latter they received more than twice the votes of Santa Fe native ...
47.20% 62 +26 Conservative Parties 17.85% 15 −3 Democratic Progressive Party 16.21% 14 +13 Socialist Party 11.69% 7 +4 Dissident Radical Civic Union 4.50% 3 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province The Argentine legislative elections of 1920 were held on 7 March. Voters chose their legislators and numerous governors, and with a turnout of 53 ...
General elections were held in Argentina on 2 April 1916. Voters elected the President, legislators, and local officials. The first secret-ballot presidential elections in the nation's history, they were mandatory and had a turnout of 62.8%. The turnout for the Chamber of Deputies election was 65.9%.
62.21% 135 Radical Civic Union 33.27% 14 Senate Peronist Party % 30 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by congressional district Results by province and territory General elections were held in Argentina on 11 November 1951. Voters chose both the President of Argentina and their legislators. This was the first election in the country to have enfranchised ...