1914 Argentine legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 22 March 1914 to elect 63 of the 120 members of the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 60%.

1914 Argentine legislative election

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63 of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout	59.64%
Party Vote % Seats +/– Conservative Parties 42.15 32 −25 Radical Civic Union 35.64 20 +16 Socialist Party 9.30 7 +7 Southern League [es] 2.81 2 +2 Independents 5.97 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by province

President Victorino de la Plaza (with cane) inaugurates Line A of the Buenos Aires Metro in late 1913. He continued Sáenz Peña's democratization.

Background

The first elections following the 1912 enactment of the Sáenz Peña Law had opened Congress to myriad opposition parties to the ruling Conservatives. The UCR, which had spearheaded efforts for the law's passage (thereby extending universal suffrage to nearly all male citizens), emerged as the chief minority party in the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House); but remained doubtful as to the transparency of Senate and gubernatorial elections in a number of districts, notably the important Buenos Aires Province. Advised to do so by their longtime leader, Hipólito Yrigoyen, the UCR maintained their boycott of races beyond those of the Chamber of Deputies.^[1]

President Roque Sáenz Peña's deteriorating health cast a pall over these elections, and his indefinite transference of presidential power to Vice President Victorino de la Plaza saw the second-in-command continue the ailing president's policies in place, as the elections proceeded on Sunday, March 22, as scheduled.^[2]

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 Lisandro de la Torre's Southern League. The Socialist Party again defeated the UCR in the City of Buenos Aires, however, and by a wider margin than in 1913. Conservative Buenos Aires Province lawmaker Marcelino Ugarte, who had defeated the UCR in the 1913 Senate race, did so again in this year's gubernatorial contest, and became his party's effective leader. The Civic Union, representing those who broke from the UCR after its 1890 founding, continued to erode in influence, and following these elections, Honorio Pueyrredón announced its reunification with the UCR.^[3]

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats
						Won	Total
	Conservative Parties		Conservative Party	69,661	11.78	10	–
			Democratic Union	22,258	3.76	2	–
			Provincial Party [es]	21,339	3.61	2	–
			Liberal–Autonomist Pact [es]	19,783	3.34	4	–
			Conservative Concentration	19,139	3.24	4	–
			Democratic Party of Córdoba [es]	18,875	3.19	2	–
			Popular Party	15,453	2.61	2	–
			Constitutional Party	15,193	2.57	0	–
			Official Party	11,509	1.95	2	–
			Provincial Union	10,389	1.76	2	–
			Civic Concentration	10,194	1.72	1	–
			Dissident Liberal Party	8,937	1.51	1	—
			Carbosistas	6,615	1.12	0	–
		Total		249,345	42.15	32	65
	Radical Civic Union			210,843	35.64	20	29
	Socialist Party			55,014	9.30	7	9
	Civic Union [es]			20,222	3.42	0	6
	Southern League [es]			16,601	2.81	2	3
	Popular Union			2,863	0.48	0	0
	Liberal Party of Buenos Aires City			815	0.14	0	0
	Nationalist Party			588	0.10	0	0
	Independents			35,307	5.97	1	1
	National Union [es]					–	5
Vacant						1	2
Total				591,598	100.00	63	120
Valid votes				591,598	96.53
Invalid/blank votes				21,253	3.47
Total votes				612,851	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				1,027,542	59.64
Source: Cantón,[4] Chamber of Deputies[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]