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Argentine general election, 1928

Argentine general election, 1928
Argentina
← 1922 1 April 1928 1931 →
  Hipólito Yrigoyen.jpg Leopoldo Melo.jpg
Nominee Hipólito Yrigoyen Leopoldo Melo
Party UCR UCR-A
Home state Buenos Aires Entre Rios
Running mate Enrique Martínez Vicente Gallo
Electoral vote 245 71
Popular vote 839.140 365,080
Percentage 61.6% 26.8%

President before election

Marcelo T. de Alvear
UCR

Elected President

Hipólito Yrigoyen
UCR


Marcelo T. de Alvear
UCR

Hipólito Yrigoyen
UCR

The Argentine general election of 1928 was held on 1 April. With a turnout of 80.9%, it produced the following official results:

a) Parties nominating the Leopoldo Melo-Vicente Gallo ticket. b) Abstentions.

(*): Barred by the Senate for political reasons; seats vacant until 1931.

Former President Hipólito Yrigoyen's differences with his successor and erstwhile ally, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, persuaded him to campaign for the presidency again. Doing so meant overcoming a host of obstacles, however: his "Antipersonalist" opposition within the UCR, though divided, eroded his allies' majority in Congress from 91 seats (out of 158) to 72 in 1924 and 60 in 1926, and he himself was 78 and in declining health.

These developments encouraged not only the Antipersonalists, but also conservatives, who united behind Julio A. Roca's Rightist Confederation. The Governor of the important Córdoba Province, Roca was the son of General Julio Roca, who had dominated the country politically between 1880 and 1906 and, in the minds of their supporters, recalled a certain nostagia for the pastoral Argentina of the time. President Alvear's Antipersonalist UCR nominated the leader of the 1924 dissension that created the movement, Senator Leopoldo Melo. Melo underscored the conservative bent of his campaign by naming Senator Vicente Gallo as his running mate; Gallo was a founding member of the paramilitary Argentine Patriotic League, and had resigned as President Alvear's Interior Minister after unsuccessfully lobbying to have a pro-Yrigoyen governor removed.


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