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1983 Argentine general election

1983 Argentine general election

Presidential election
← Sept 1973 30 October 1983 1989 →

600 members of the Electoral College
301 votes needed to win
Registered17,929,951
Turnout85.61%
 
Candidate Raúl Alfonsín Ítalo Luder
Party Radical Civic Union Justicialist Party
Running mate Víctor Martínez Deolindo Bittel
Electoral vote 317 259
States carried 15 + CABA 8
Popular vote 7,724,559 5,944,402
Percentage 51.75% 40.16%

Percentage of votes (left) and electoral votes (right) by province.

President before election

Reynaldo Bignone
Military

Elected President

Raúl Alfonsín
UCR

Legislative election
← March 1973 30 October 1983 1985 →

254 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
128 seats needed for a majority
Turnout85.61%
Party Vote % Seats
Chamber of Deputies
Radical Civic Union

47.97% 129
Justicialist Party

38.47% 111
Intransigent Party

2.78% 3
Union of the Democratic Centre

1.70% 2
Blockist Party

0.42% 2
Neuquén People's Movement

0.24% 2
Others

8.4% 5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by province

A general election was held in Argentina on 30 October 1983 and marked the return of constitutional rule following the self-styled National Reorganization Process dictatorship installed in 1976.[1] Voters fully chose the president, governors, mayors, and their respective national, province and town legislators; with a turnout of 85.6%.

  1. ^ Foweraker, Joe (1984). "The Argentine elections of 30 October 1983". Electoral Studies. 3 (1): 107–112. doi:10.1016/0261-3794(84)90026-X. ISSN 0261-3794.

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