1989 Argentine general election

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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 Vote % 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.