1954 Argentine vice presidential election

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Vice Presidential election
Registered	9,222,075
Turnout	85.58%
Nominee Alberto Teisaire Crisólogo Larralde Party Peronist Party Radical Civic Union Popular vote 4,944,106 2,493,422 Percentage 64.52% 32.22%
Vice President before election Vacant (Hortensio Quijano deceased in 1952) Vice President-elect Alberto Teisaire Peronist Party
Legislative election
25 April 1954
79 of 155 seats in theChamber of Deputies 9 of 14 non-voting delegates in theChamber of Deputies 18 of 34 seats in theSenate
Turnout	85.99%
Party Vote % Seats +/– Chamber of Deputies Peronist Party 64.28% 74 +4 Radical Civic Union 32.31% 5 −2 Senate Peronist Party % 18 +3 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

TheArgentine General election of 1954 was held on 25 April. Voters chose both their legislators and theVice-president ofArgentina with a turnout of 85%.

The death of his wife and closest advisor,Evita, stuck PresidentJuan Perón amid serious difficulties. A severe drought in 1952 and years of pessimism in Argentina's importantagrarian sector depletedforeign reserves and forced Perón to curtail public lending and spending programs. The recession (and abumper crop) did, however, allowCentral Bank reserves to recover and brought inflation (50% in 1951) to single digits.^[1]

Controversy surrounding Perón's in-laws and political violence both by and against hisPeronist movement had dogged the president in the first half of 1953, and he took the opportunity of upcoming legislative polls to test his popularity. TheArgentine Constitution did not require it at the time, but the President announced a special election to replace the late Vice President,Hortensio Quijano. Dr. Quijano had died on April 3, 1952, two months and one day before his term was to have ended on June 4, 1952. Perón nominated SenatorAlberto Teisaire as the candidate for the then named Partido Peronista (Peronist Party).

Teisaire was familiar to Perón from the 1943coup d'état; the formerrear admiral had helped retain the normally restiveNavy's support for the populist leader before and after Perón's 1946 election and, after eight years in theSenate, he remained close to the military - a far from trivial consideration.^[2]

In the opposition since 15 years before Perón took office, the centristUCR had been burdened bycensorship and sundry forms of harassment since 1930, and 1953 had been marked by the jailing of most of their leaders. Among the few prominent figures in the party available to run for the vice-presidency wasCrisólogo Larralde. Larralde had opposed the UCR's 1945 alliance with conservatives and socialists against Perón, and was a well-known figure in the UCR's dissident, pro-Perón "Renewal Group." This did not, however, ease the UCR's restriction to access to most mass media, and the party was defeated by similar numbers to their 1951 loss.^[3]

Party		Votes	%	Deputies		Non-voting delegates
				Won	Total	Won	Total
	Peronist Party (PP)	4,977,586	64.28	74	143	9	14
	Radical Civic Union (UCR)	2,502,109	32.31	5	12	—	—
	National Democratic Party (PDN)	104,006	1.34	—	—	—	—
	Communist Party (PCA)	88,007	1.14	—	—	—	—
	Democratic Progressive Party (PDP)	46,077	0.60	—	—	—	—
	Socialist Party of the National Revolution (PS RN)	22,516	0.29	—	—	—	—
	Labour Gathering Party (CO)	3,183	0.04	—	—	—	—
Total		7,743,484	100	79	155	9	14
Positive votes		7,743,484	97.93
Invalid/blank votes		163,374	2.07
Total votes		7,906,858	100
Registered voters/turnout		9,194,157	85.99
Source:[5]

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• 1954 elections in Argentina
• April 1954 in South America

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