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CAROGLIO, Ana Valeria. Las contiendas electorales bajo la égida demócrata, Mendoza, 1931- 1937. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2009, n.22, pp.75-104. ISSN 1852-1568.

This article deals with the reconstruction of the electoral experiences in Mendoza in the period starting in 1931 and ending with the 1937 elections. The aim is to find out the characteristics of the electoral processes of the period: how the government called elections, how elections were conducted; which parties participated; whether there were pre-electoral campaigns; what attitude voters exhibited in those campaigns; the characteristics of the competition between parties; the names of those who enlarged the voting lists; if fraud occurred in all districts and in all elections instances; how fraud came about ; when and where it may have been less relevant or more closely checked upon ; which was the citizens' participation level and the evolution followed by the number of voters in the different political groups. These questions aim to analyze those years when fraud seemed to "brush off" the electoral processes by offering an image of pre-arranged elections in which there apparently was no resistance on the part of the opposing political parties or any opposition at all, and where the results seemed to be the outcome of fraud. From the perspective introduced, the case offers some particularities. On the one hand, although he Radical Party did not participate, since the first presidential elections of 1931, some local Radical Party groups participated in the electoral fights; on the other hand, in 1933, the Socialists won the municipal elections in the District of Godoy Cruz, which remained a socialist bastion until 1941, when the Democratic Party won the municipal elections.

Palabras clave : Elections; Fraud; Conservative; Radicalismo; Socialismo; Mendoza.

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