to await the results from the electoral college (which met in July). The dissident Santa Fe UCR had drained a significant number of electors from the official ticket, and Yrigoyen obtained but 133 of the body's 300 electors. Numerous Democratic Progressives, moreover, became faithless electors - pledging their support to the Conservative Party. Santa Fe's UCR, however, resorted to the same tactic, allowing Yrigoyen its 19 electors and making the patient activist for voter rights the first democratically elected President of Argentina. Candidates Radical Civic Union (populist): President of the UCR Hipólito Yrigoyen of the city of Buenos Aires Conservative Party (conservative): Gobernor Ángel Rojas of San Juan Province Democratic Progressive Party (reformist): Deputy Lisandro de la Torre of Santa Fe Province Socialist Party: Deputy Juan B. Justo of the city of Buenos Aires President Popular Vote Electoral Vote Electoral Vote by Province Chamber of Deputies References 1916 1916 elections in South America 1916 in Argentina 1916