List of political parties in Argentina

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This article lists political parties in Argentina.

Argentina has a multi-party system with two or three strong political parties or alliances, and many smaller parties that enjoy representation at the National Congress.

Since the 1990s, there is a strong decentralizing tendency within the national parties, along with the growing national relevance of province-level parties and alliances. In the last decade, most of the newly formed parties remained as junior partners of the main alliances or as district-level relevant political forces.

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Background [edit]

From the "national organisation" to 1916, the oligarchic National Autonomist Party directed Argentine politics by fraudulent means, before being replaced, through secret ballot elections, by the Radical Civic Union. The "Infamous Decade" (1930–1943), initiated by the first modern coup d'état in Argentina, represented a return of the conservatives and their "patriotic fraud" electoral practice. Since 1946, the strongest party has been the Justicialist Party, emerging around the leadership of Juan Perón (when not banned, justicialists lost only two presidential elections, in 1983 and 1999). The second most important party was the Radical Civic Union, until the 2001 collapse.

In the 2003 Argentine general election the first and the second places were earned by Justicialist presidential candidates. In the 2007 presidential election, the Civic Coalition earned a second place, but this party dropped to 1% of the popular vote in the 2011 general election, in which left-wing Justicialist president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner renewed her mandate for another 4 years.

Current parties [edit]

Major parties (as of 2012) [edit]

Other parties [edit]

Other parties and alliances enjoying national legislative representation or Provincial Governorships
Other national parties

Note: Most of them are subsumed in larger coalitions

Other provincial parties and alliances
Minor parties (not going to elections or less than 2% in a district as of 2009)[1]

Electoral Alliances [edit]

Recent or prominent electoral alliances (as of 2009[1])

Defunct parties and alliances [edit]

19th Century and early 20th Century
Mid 20th Century
Late 20th Century and early 21st Century

See also [edit]

External links [edit]

General [edit]

Minor parties not listed above [edit]

Political parties in Argentina Argentina
Major national parties
Other parties enjoying
national legislative representation
or Provincial Governorships
Other national parties
(mostly subsumed in larger coalitions)
Other nationally active
provincially-based parties
Minor parties
(not going to elections or
less than 2% in a district [1])
Other recent, or prominent,
electoral alliances
(as of 2009 [2])
Former political parties and alliances in Argentina Argentina
19th Century
Early 20th Century
Mid 20th Century
Late 20th Century
Early 21st Century
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories
  1. ^ a b 2009 elections results
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