1910 Argentine general election

Presidential election

← 1904

13 March 1910

1916 →

300 members of the Electoral College
151 votes needed to win


Nominee	Roque Sáenz Peña	Adolfo Contte
Party	National Autonomist Party	Liberal Party of Corrientes
Running mate	Victorino de la Plaza	Valentín Virasoro
Electoral vote	265^[a]	1
States carried	15	0
Percentage	99.6%	0.4%

Legislative election

← 1908

13 March 1910

1912 →

63 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies

Party	Seats
National Autonomist Party	63

President before	President after
José Figueroa Alcorta National Autonomist Party	Roque Sáenz Peña 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^[a]
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^[b]
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
Province	Sáenz Peña	Contte	de la Plaza	Gómez	de Iriondo	Virasoro
Buenos Aires City	41		41
Buenos Aires	49		49
Catamarca	9		9
Córdoba	24		21	2	1
Corrientes	16	1	16			1
Entre Ríos	19		19
Jujuy	6		6
La Rioja	7		7
Mendoza	12		12
Salta	12		12
San Juan	10		10
San Luis	10		10
Santa Fe	25		25
Santiago del Estero	9		9
Tucumán	16		16
Total	265^[a]	1	262^[b]	2	1	1

Chamber of Deputies

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

Notes

^ Todo Argentina: 1910 Archived 2018-07-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
^ Todo Argentina: 1912 Archived 2018-04-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)

^ ^a ^b ^c Although only 265 electors voted for Roque Sáenz Peña, in the final count he appears with 264 votes.
^ ^a ^b Although only 262 electors voted for Victorino de la Plaza, in the final count he appears with 259 votes.

References

Diario de sesiones de la Cámara de Senadores - Año 1910 - Tomo I. Buenos Aires: Establecimiento Tipográfico "El Comercio". 1910. pp. 336–354.
Duhalde, Eduardo Luis (2007). Acción Parlamentaria de John William Cooke. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 232. ISBN 978-950-563-460-6.
"Historia Electoral Argentina (1912-2007), p. 58" (PDF). www.mininterior.gov.ar. Ministry of the Interior. December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

v t e Elections and referendums in Argentina
Presidential elections	1826 1853 1860 1862 1868 1874 1880 1886 1892 1898 1904 1910 1916 1922 1928 1931 1937 1946 1951 1958 1963 1973 (Mar) 1973 (Sep) 1983 1989 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Chamber of Deputies elections	1854 1856 1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868 1870 1872 1873 1874 1876 1878 1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1931 1934 1936 1938 1940 1942 1946 1948 1951 1954 1958 1960 1962 1963 1965 1973 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
Senate elections	1854 1857 1860 1862 1865 1868 1871 1874 1877 1880 1883 1886 1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1916 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1935 1938 1941 1946 1949 1951 1954 1958 1961 1963 1966 1973 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
Provincial elections	1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1946 1948 1949 1950 1951 1953 1955 1958 1960 1961 1962 1963 1966 1973 1975 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
Constituent Assemblies	1866 1898 1948 1957 1994
Referendums	1984

This page was last edited on 31 August 2022, at 20:08