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Shortly after Alfredo Baldomir was sworn in as President, the Second World War broke out, with Uruguay being rapidly propelled into the limelight by the affair of the Graf Spee. This German naval vessel was chased into the Rio de la Plata by British (and New Zealand) warships and took refuge in...

Have a look at the California Digital Newspaper Collection, it's digitised, open access and has the LA Daily News back to literally 1860. [/researchlibrarian] Edit: yes, just checked the Daily News for 1 June 1949 and the front page confirms that only one City Council race was contested, along...

In 1933 things got really heated. Gabriel Terra’s fourth Minister of the Interior, Demicheli, walked out of the Senate while he was being questioned on his basic principles - which seemed to be given to fluctuate more than you would expect from a statesman. After the walkout, the Senate passed a...

So, in 2021 I wrote this in about half an hour and showed it to a mate, who thought it was excellent. The other day, he sent me the first fanfic anyone's ever made of my stuff: a review of the author's attempt at a sci-fi based cookbook.

This is horrifying. So for 1922, all those 'other' victories in the east are due to all the minor party votes being summed together in your source, right? And presumably this would affect majority shades in some of the other parishes?

Now both Batlle and Herrera, the populist leaders of their respective parties, were facing each other in the Council of Administration, with the balance of power being held by a Vierista, Caviglia, who had made a lukewarm commitment to vote together with the rest of the Colorados. But Herrera...

President Serrato chose his Ministers from all factions of the Colorado Party, including the Batllistas - but the Batllista Colorados who had provided the bulk of Serrato’s votes decided to bring down every single one of his starting line-up, including one of their own. Various fights were...

The Colorado negotiations in the 1920s are some of the most complicated solutions to the problem of 'how do we pay lip service to democracy while still getting the outcome we planned' I've ever seen. At one stage the Batllistas suggested that they should run two presidential candidates against...

In 1919, the new Uruguayan Constitution came into force, providing for a two-headed Executive consisting of a nine-member ‘Colegiado’ looking after ‘administrative’ portfolios and a President with authority over the armed forces and the Police. It also instituted proportional representation in...

When Feliciano Viera took power in 1915, he was pledged to continue the progressive policies of his predecessor, Jose Batlle y Ordonez, and in particular, to push for the replacement of the President with a collegiate executive, or Colegiado. The first electoral test during the Viera...

When the results of the 1910 legislative election were counted, the Colorado Party could afford to pat itself on the back: it possessed every seat but one in the Senate, and every seat but five in the Chamber. And as almost all of these people had pledged before their election to vote for Jose...

Although Jose Batlle y Ordonez had convincingly defeated the Nationalist opposition in both war and electoral politics, he was a controversial figure - both among the bitter Blancos and the more conservative end of the Colorados, who regarded his labour-friendly and anti-rancher policies with...

Quite a lot happened between the 1902 Uruguayan Senate election (which is where we got to in the last instalment) and the 1905 Chamber of Deputies election. The first main event was the appointment of a new President to replace Juan Lindolfo Cuestas in 1903. The election of a President was then...

There is frustratingly little information about Uruguayan elections online, especially before the 1950s, so I thought I’d do a big project of writing up the main features of each one from 1900 onwards until I get bored. Also, there are maps. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Uruguay was a...

And finally for now, here's the map of boundaries from 1947 to 1973, a nationwide constituency with results presented by the Departments of the day. All the elections up to 1962, as below, were unopposed.

The multi-member electorates introduced in 1917 were only used a few times. Before the Incomplete List reform, Paraguay used First Past the Post with 20 single-member electorates for the lower house in the countryside, and 6 Deputies elected by the city of Asuncion. The six parishes of Asuncion...

Massive, massive health warnings on this - but I've mapped the Paraguayan election of 1917. Health Warning 1: I cobbled the map together from an atlas of 14 maps of the Departments which was published in 1920, but the maps were all on different scales, so there was a bit of fudging. Health...

It still really annoys me that they didn't call the party the 'Gesell-schaft'.

He still had it as late as 22 May 1940, from a brief look online, but seems to have shaved it off shortly thereafter for some unaccountable reason.

The sectarian issue is a bit worse than OTL as Ward is PM and the Protestant Political Association have some more solid grounds to accuse him of being Bad, and therefore Catholics have a more serious reason to feel hard done to. Added to this, James McCombs being substantially more dour and...