2019 Argentine general election

2019 Argentine general election

27 October 2019[1]
Opinion polls
Presidential election
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Registered	34,231,895
Turnout	80.41%
Nominee Alberto Fernández Mauricio Macri Roberto Lavagna Party PJ PRO Independent Alliance FdT JxC CF Running mate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Miguel Ángel Pichetto Juan Manuel Urtubey Popular vote 12,946,037 10,811,586 1,649,322 Percentage 48.24% 40.28% 6.15%
President before election Mauricio Macri JxC–PRO Elected President Alberto Fernández FDT–PJ
Chamber of Deputies
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130 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout	80.37%
Party Vote % Seats Frente de Todos 45.26 64 Juntos por el Cambio 40.36 56 Federal Consensus 5.85 3 We Do for Córdoba 1.47 1 Civic Front for Santiago 1.27 3 Front for the Renewal of Concord 0.75 1 Together We Are Río Negro 0.47 1 Let's All Live Better 0.07 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
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24 of the 72 seats in the Senate
Turnout	78.27%
Party Vote % Seats Frente de Todos 40.16 13 Juntos por el Cambio 39.22 8 Civic Front for Santiago 5.83 2 Together We Are Río Negro 2.72 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Presidential results by province Congressional results by province

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General elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2019, to elect the president of Argentina, members of the national congress and the governors of most provinces.^[2]

The Peronist, left-wing Frente de Todos ticket of Alberto Fernández, former Chief Cabinet, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, National Senator and former president, defeated the center-right Juntos por el Cambio ticket of incumbent president Mauricio Macri and conservative Peronist National Senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto, exceeding the threshold to win the presidency in a single round. Macri became the first incumbent president in Argentine history to be defeated in his reelection bid.

The election of the president was conducted under the ballotage system, a modified version of the two-round system. A candidate can win the presidency in a single round by either winning 45% of the vote, or if they win 40% of the vote while finishing 10 percentage points ahead of the second-place candidate. If no candidate meets either threshold, a runoff takes place between the top two candidates.^[3] Voting is compulsory for citizens between 18 and 70 years old.^[4] Suffrage was also extended to 16- and 17-year-olds, though without compulsory voting.^[5]

There are a total of 257 seats of the Chamber of Deputies. They are elected from 24 electoral districts–the 23 provinces, plus the federal district of Buenos Aires, which elects its own executive and legislature and is represented in the national Congress like all other provinces.^[6] The number of seats are distributed in relation to the population of the province. One-third of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies are reserved for women. The 130 seats of the Chamber of Deputies up for election were elected from 24 multi-member constituencies based on the 23 provinces and Buenos Aires. Seats were allocated using the D'Hondt method of proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 3%.^[4]

The 24 seats in the Senate up for election were elected in three-seat constituencies using the closed list system. Each district is represented by three senatorial seats. Each party is allowed to register up to two candidates; one of those registered must be female. The party receiving the most votes wins two seats, and the second-placed party wins one.^[7] The third senatorial seat was established in the Constitution of 1994 in order to better represent the largest minority in each district.

Number of deputies at stake in each province.

Provinces that elected senators in blue.

The 257 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by proportional representation in 24 multi-member constituencies based on the provinces (plus the City of Buenos Aires). Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with a 3% electoral threshold. In this election, 130 of the 257 seats are up for renewal for a 4-year term.^{[citation needed]}

The 72 members of the Senate are elected in the same 24 constituencies, with three seats in each. The party receiving the most votes in each constituency wins two seats, with the third seat awarded to the second-placed party. The 2019 elections will see one-third of senators renewed, with eight provinces electing three senators for a 6-year term; Buenos Aires City, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego.^{[citation needed]}

The following candidates successfully registered their nominations before the limit date of 22 June 2019, and went on to compete in the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) on 11 August 2019.^[8][9]

Presidential candidate (political party)			Vice-presidential candidate (political party)		Coalition	Coalition parties	Presidential candidate prior political offices
	Alberto Fernández (PJ)		Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (PJ)			Justicialist Party Intransigent Party Renewal Front Communist Party Communist Party (Extraordinary Congress) Humanist Party Broad Front Party Victory Party Solidary Party Kolina New Encounter Federal Commitment Concertation Party Proyecto Sur National Alfonsinist Movement Revolutionary Communist Party Popular Unity We Are Green Party	Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers (2003–2008)
	Mauricio Macri (PRO)		Miguel Ángel Pichetto (PJ)			Republican Proposal Radical Civic Union Civic Coalition Democratic Progressive Party Faith Party Dialogue Party Integration and Development Movement Popular Union Constitutional Nationalist Party	President of Argentina (since 2015) Chief of Government of Buenos Aires (2007–2015)
	Roberto Lavagna (Independent)		Juan Manuel Urtubey (PJ)			Generation for a National Encounter Freemen of the South Movement Federal Party Socialist Party Christian Democratic Party Third Position Party Light Blue and White Union	Minister of Economy and Production (2003–2005)
	Nicolás del Caño (PTS)		Romina Del Plá (PO)			Socialist Workers' Party Workers' Party Socialist Left Workers' Socialist Movement Unified Socialist Workers' Party People's Power	National Deputy from Buenos Aires (since 2017)
	José Luis Espert (PL)		Luis Rosales (PL)			Union of the Democratic Centre Libertarian Party	None (economist and professor)
	Alejandro Biondini (BV)		Enrique Venturino (BV)			People's Countryside Party People's Party Neighborhood Flag People In Action Popular Dignity Labour Party The Movement	None (founder and president of Bandera Vecinal)
	Manuela Castañeira (Nuevo MAS)		Eduardo Mulhall (Nuevo MAS)				None (sociologist)
	Juan José Gómez Centurión (NOS)		Cynthia Hotton (Valores para mi País)				Vice-president of the Bank of the Argentine Nation (2017–2019)
	José Antonio Romero Feris (PAN)		Guillermo Sueldo (PAN)				National Senator for Corrientes (1987–2001) Governor of Corrientes (1983–1987)
	Raúl Humberto Albarracín (Neighbourhood Action Movement)		Sergio Darío Pastore (Neighbourhood Action Movement)				Provincial legislator of Córdoba (2007–2011)

Open primary elections for the presidency were held nationwide on 11 August. With this system, all parties run primary elections on a single ballot. All parties must take part in it, both the parties with internal factions and parties with a single candidate list. Citizens may vote for any candidate of any party, but may only cast a single vote. The most voted candidate of parties gaining 1.5% or higher of the valid votes advances to the general election.^[10]

Fernández came top with 47.8% of the vote, with Macri trailing behind with 31.8%. Lavagna, del Caño, Gómez Centurión and Espert all received enough valid votes to participate in the general election.^[11][12]

Fernández owed his victory mostly to Buenos Aires Province swinging over dramatically to support him; he carried it by over 1.6 million votes over Macri, accounting for almost all of his nationwide margin of 2.1 million votes. By comparison, Daniel Scioli only carried the province by 219,000 votes in 2015.