1989 Argentine general election

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.

1989 Argentine general election
Presidential election
14 May 1989
600 members of the Electoral College
301 votes needed to win
Registered20,034,252
Turnout85.31%
 
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
14 May 1989
127 of 254 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout85.31%
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
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