Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Uruguay on 30 July 1916.Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p555 The National Party emerged as the largest party, winning 105 of the 218 seats. The Batllista wing of the Colorado Party was defeated as a result of a coalition of nationalist and non-Batllista Colorado Party members.Fernando Filgueira (1995) A Century of Social Welfare in Uruguay Growth to the Limit of the Batllista Social State, Issue 5, pp1–2 According to one study, "Exigencies of politics precluded a clear-cut batllista control of the constitutional convention elected in 1916 even though Batlle's followers still dominated the congress."Russell Humke Fitzgibbon (1956) Uruguay: Portrait of a Democracy, p144
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See also Constitution of Uruguay
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