1983 Argentine general election

Argentina voted on October 30, 1983, marking the return of constitutional rule after the military dictatorship that called itself the National Reorganization Process. Turnout was 85.6 percent, and Raúl Alfonsín of the Radical Civic Union won the presidency with 52 percent. The result mattered because it was not a foregone conclusion: the Peronists still won a Senate majority and 12 of 22 governorships, so the new president had to govern alongside a strong opposition from the first day. Alfonsín persuaded the outgoing military president to bring the inauguration forward to December 10, 1983, cutting short the junta's final months in office.