The Argentine presidential election of 1853 was held on 1 November to choose the first president of the Argentine Confederation for the period 1854-1860. Justo José de Urquiza was elected president by a wide margin.
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It was the first presidential election after the unification of the country in 1852, after Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros on 3 February 1852. The State of Buenos Aires seceded on 11 September 1852 and did not participate in elections until 1862.
Results
edit| Argentine Confederation | |
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| Population | 640,000 |
| Voters | 6,400 |
| Turnout | 1% |
| Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Justo José de Urquiza | Federal | 91[a] |
| Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian | 7 |
| Pedro Ferré | Federal | 1 |
| Vicente López y Planes | — | 1 |
| José María Paz | Unitarian | 1 |
| Benjamín Virasoro | Federal | 1 |
| Facundo Zuviría | Unitarian | 1 |
| Total voters | 103 | |
| Did not vote | 3 | |
| Total | 106 | |
| Vice Presidential Candidates | Party | Electoral Votes | Congress Vote[b] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salvador María del Carril | Unitarian | 35 | 17 |
| Facundo Zuviría | Unitarian | 22 | 1 |
| Mariano Fragueiro | Unitarian | 20 | |
| Rudecindo Alvarado | Unitarian | 13 | |
| Benjamín Virasoro | Federal | 8 | |
| Juan Bautista Alberdi | — | 7 | |
| Pedro Ferré | Federal | 1 | |
| Total | 106 | 18 | |
Results by Province
edit| Province | President | Vice President | |||||||||||||
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| Urquiza | Fragueiro | Ferré | López y Planes | Paz | Virasoro | Zuviría | del Carril | Zuviría | Fragueiro | Alvarado | Virasoro | Alberdi | Ferré | ||
| Catamarca | 9 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
| Córdoba | 16 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Corrientes | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
| Entre Ríos | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Jujuy | 8 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| La Rioja | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Mendoza | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Salta | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| San Juan | 5 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| San Luis | 8 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Santa Fe | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Santiago del Estero | Did not vote | Did not vote | |||||||||||||
| Tucumán | Did not vote | Did not vote | |||||||||||||
| Total | 91[a] | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 22 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 1 | |
Notes
editReferences
edit- Congreso General Constituyente de la Confederación Argentina - Sesión de 1852-54. Buenos Aires: Imprenta del Orden. 1871. pp. 405–409.
- Barreto Constantín, Ana María (2014). Vida de un Caudillo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken. p. 48. ISBN 978-9870276968.
- Lorenzo, Celso Ramón (1997). Manual de Historia Constitucional Argentina, Volumen 2. Rosario: Editorial Juris. p. 228. ISBN 950-817-064-6.
- "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.