The Argentine presidential election of 1898 was held on 10 April to choose the president of

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and 79 of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.

Julio Argentino Roca Alejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz (July 17, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was an army general and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 1880 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1904. Roca is the most important representative of the Generation ...

was elected president for a second period.

Background

Having obtained the aging Luis Sáenz Peña's resignation in favor of Vice President

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(who was good stead with both Roca and Mitre), Roca once again carried the PAN standard in 1898. The UCR, which had lost its founder, Leandro Alem, to suicide in 1896, was divided between those who backed Senator

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's drive to form coalitions with more conservative parties, and those who supported the party's new leader,

Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...

(who boycotted this and future "election songs" – establishing what later became known as the UCR's "break before bending" policy). Public debate was heated on the eve of the January 30 elections to a

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entrusted to increase the number of congressmen and cabinet members, as well before the April 10, 1898, general election. The electoral college yielded no surprises, though, and Roca was returned to the presidency.Todo Argentina: 1898

Results

President

Results by Province

Chamber of Deputies

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and its allies won all 79 seats in the election.

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References

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