Argentine presidential election, 1874

Argentine general election, 1874

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Nominee Nicolás Avellaneda Bartolomé Mitre Party Home state Tucumán Buenos Aires Running mate Mariano Acosta Juan Eusebio Torrent Electoral vote 145 79 States carried 11 3 Percentage 64.7% 35.3%
President before election Domingo Sarmiento Independent Elected President Nicolás Avellaneda

Domingo Sarmiento
Independent

Nicolás Avellaneda

The Argentine presidental election of 1874 was held on 12 April to choose the president of Argentina. Nicolás Avellaneda was elected president.

President Sarmiento's pragmatic approach to Buenos Aires demands and his successful control of separatist revolts in the north paved the way to high office for his vice president, leader Adolfo Alsina. Alsina gained the support of a sizable facion of Mitre's Nationalist Party, resulting in the formation of the paramount political group in Argentina for the next 42 years: The National Autonomist Party (PAN). Mitre himself did not support Alsina, however, whom he viewed as a veiled Buenos Aires separatist. The elder statesman ran for the presidency again, though the seasoned Alsina outmaneuvered him by fielding Nicolás Avellaneda, a moderate lawyer from remote Tucumán Province. The electoral college met on 12 April 1874, and awarded Mitre only three provinces, including Buenos Aires.

As he had repeatedly up to 1861, Mitre took up arms again. Hoping to prevent Avellaneda's 12 October inaugural, he mutineered a gunboat; he was defeated, however, and only President Avellaneda's commutation spared his life.

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