Evening star., 1951-11-12
Peron Back in Office
By Big Majority as
Comedies
General Has 2,513,779
Votes to l,377,7o0 for
Rival in Partial Count
BY the Assoeiated Press

BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 12.-
Argentina has returned President
Juan D. Peron to another six
years of power in a record
breaking election which gave him
a humping majority over his
main opposition.
Gen. Peron's chief opponents
the Radical Party. conceded his
overwhelming victory on the basis
of government figures and unof-
fetal incomplete returns from
yesterdays election.
A broadcast of the undersecre-
tariat OF information gave Gen
Peron a countrywide margin
thus far Of 1.135,969 votes, with
these figures: Peron. 2,513,779;
Ricardo Baldwin, Radical and
chief opposition candidate, 1,377,-
790.
However, the National Election
Board said the only official figures
available thus far were for 1861
of the 6,092 precincts in Buenos
Aires, giving Peron 202,240, ano
Baldwin, 157.943. 1t said it COM
planned to the Communications
Ministry that returns were being
delayed.
Called Vote of Confidence.
The pro-goyernment press
hailed Gen. Peron's victory as a
vote of confidence by the people
1t said his final majority will be
bigger than in his first election in
1946, when he polled SIS per cent
Radical leaders declared that
women, voting for the first time
in an Argentine general election
where the main instrument in the
Peron victory.
The opposition claimed there
had been some irregularities in thu
vote counting. They said that
according to their own count, al
least five and possibly seven o1
their candidates won congress.
sional seats in the capital, which
sends 80 deputies to Congress.
There were no other opposition
complaints of Irregularities. but
radical leaders reiterated charge.
that the Peronistas defraudec
them during the prediction cam.
paign by not permitting the op.
position equal campaigning facil.
tiles.
Reports by the Interior Minis.
try and the information under
secretariat gave no hint of the
way the congressional elections
were, going. They also omitted
the number of votes cast for the
Communists. Socialists. Conserva-
tives and other minor parties.
Al Women Seek Election.
A record number of voters
possibly 6,000,000-showed up al
the polls, with women outnumber-
ing the men. Forty-seven women
all Peronistas, are seeking elec-
ton to the House of Deputies
(congress). Sonora Eva Peron
ailing wife of the president, heads
the powerful Peronista women's
party.
No complete figures on the tota
vote were available yet, but thu
Interior Ministry said more thar
80 per cent of the eligible voter.
in the capital cast ballots yester.
day, despite the heaviest down.
pour in years which disrupted
communications.
A 5-inch rainfall in Bueno
Aires delayed the reporting of re.
suits from outlying districts tt
the capital. The communication.
breakdown forced the electora
court in Buenos Aires province
largest in Argentina-to suspend
vote counting until Thursday.
Gen. Peron had been granted 8
congressional leave of absenct
which could extend to April, 1852
He had requested the leave tc
show Argentines and foreigners
he would not unduly influence the
voters. He had indicated he woulG
return to his duties right after
the election but it is now reported
he has postponed his return to be
near his sick wife, who underwent
2 major operation on November 6
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