1916 Argentine general election

1916 Argentine general election
2 April 1916
Presidential election
300 members of the Electoral College
151 votes needed to win
 
Nominee Hipólito Yrigoyen Ángel Rojas Lisandro de la Torre
Party UCR Conservative PDP
Electoral vote 152 104 20
Popular vote 340,802 150,245 135,308
Percentage 47.25% 20.83% 18.76
Result by province
President before election

Victorino de la Plaza
PAN

Elected President

Hipólito Yrigoyen
UCR

Chamber of Deputies
2 April 1916
62 of the 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout65.59%
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Radical Civic Union

44.76 26 +6
Conservative Concentration

24.78 18 −9
Democratic Progressive Party

9.77 7 +5
Socialist Party

7.23 3 −4
Dissident Radical Civic Union

3.85 4 +4
Liberal–Autonomist Pact

2.36 3 −2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by province

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 63%. The turnout for the Chamber of Deputies election was 65%.

The election has been characterized as the first free and fair elections in Argentina.

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