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1989 Argentine general election
Presidential election
← 1983
14 May 1989
1995 →
600 members of the Electoral College 301 votes needed to win
Registered
20,034,252
Turnout
85.31%
Nominee
Carlos Menem
Eduardo Angeloz
Álvaro Alsogaray
Party
PJ
UCR
UCeDe
Alliance
FREJUPO
UCR + CFI
Center Alliance
Running mate
Eduardo Duhalde
Juan Manuel Casella/ María C. Guzmán
Alberto Natale
Electoral vote
312
234
33
States carried
20
3 + CABA
0
Popular vote
7,957,518
6,213,217
1,200,172
Percentage
47.51%
37.10%
7.17%
Percentage of votes (left) and electoral votes (right) by province.
President before election
Raúl Alfonsín
UCR
Elected President
Carlos Menem
PJ
Legislative election
← 1987
14 May 1989
1991 →
127 of 254 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout
85.31%
Party
%
Seats
+/–
Chamber of Deputies
Justicialist Front of Popular Unity
44.82%
66
+5
Radical Civic Union
29.23%
42
−9
Center Alliance
10.79%
10
+2
Independent Federalist Confederation
3.39%
3
+1
United Left
3.49%
1
+1
Socialist Unity
2.71%
0
−1
Others
5.67%
5
+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Results by province
The Argentine general election of 1989 was held on 14 May 1989. Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 85.3%, Carlos Menem won the presidency, and the Peronist Justicialist Party won the control of both houses of Congress. This is the last presidential election the president was elected by the electoral college.
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