2019 Argentine general election

2019 Argentine general election

27 October 2019
Opinion polls
Registered	33,858,733
Turnout	81.31%
Nominee Alberto Fernández Mauricio Macri Roberto Lavagna Party Justicialist Party PRO Independent Alliance Everyone’s Front Together for Change Federal Consensus Home state City of Buenos Aires City of Buenos Aires City of Buenos Aires Running mate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Miguel Ángel Pichetto Manuel Urtubey States carried 18 5 + CABA 0 Popular vote 12,945,990 10,811,345 1,649,315 Percentage 48.24% 40.28% 6.14%
President before election Mauricio Macri Cambiemos-PRO Elected President Alberto Fernández FDT-PJ

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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. Former Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernández of the Justicialist Party won the presidency, and incumbent president Mauricio Macri lost his re-election bid for a second term. Macri became the first incumbent president in Argentine history to be defeated in his reelection bid.

Electoral system

The election of the president will be 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. Voting is compulsory for citizens between 18 and 70 years old. Suffrage was also extended to 16- and 17-year-olds, though without compulsory voting.

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. 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%.

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 won one. The third senatorial seat was established in the Constitution of 1994 in order to better represent the largest minority in each district.

Congress

Number of Deputies at stake in each province.

Provinces that will elect Senators in blue.

Chamber of Deputies

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.

Province	Total seats	Seats at stake
Buenos Aires	70	35
Buenos Aires City	25	12
Catamarca	5	2
Chaco	7	3
Chubut	5	3
Córdoba	18	9
Corrientes	7	4
Entre Ríos	9	4
Formosa	5	3
Jujuy	6	3
La Pampa	5	2
La Rioja	5	3
Mendoza	10	5
Misiones	7	4
Neuquén	5	2
Río Negro	5	3
Salta	7	4
San Juan	6	3
San Luis	5	2
Santa Cruz	5	2
Santa Fe	19	10
Santiago del Estero	7	4
Tierra del Fuego	5	3
Tucumán	9	5
Total	257	130

Senate

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.

Confirmed candidates

The following candidates have successfully registered their nominations before the limit date of 22 June 2019.

Presidential candidate (political party)			Vice-Presidential candidate (political party)		Coalition	Coalition parties	Presidential candidate prior political offices
	Mauricio Macri (PRO)		Miguel Ángel Pichetto (PJ)			Republican Proposal Radical Civic Union Civic Coalition ARI Democratic Progressive Party Partido Fe Partido del Diálogo Integration and Development Movement Popular Union Constitutional Nationalist Party UNIR	President of Argentina (since 2015) Chief of Government of Buenos Aires (2007–2015)
	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 Party of Victory Solidary Party Kolina New Encounter Federal Commitment FORJA Proyecto Sur Movimiento Nacional Alfonsinista Revolutionary Communist Party Popular Unity Somos Green Party	Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers (2003–2008)
	Roberto Lavagna (Independent)		Juan Manuel Urtubey (PJ)		Federal Consensus	GEN Party Freemen of the South Movement Federal Party Socialist Party Christian Democratic Party Partido Tercera Posición Partido Celeste y Blanco	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)		Patriotic Front	Unite por la Libertad y la Dignidad Partido del Campo Popular Partido Popular Bandera Vecinal Gente en Acción Dignidad Popular Partido Laborista El Movimiento	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)		NOS		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 (Movimiento de Acción Vecinal)		Sergio Darío Pastore (Movimiento de Acción Vecinal)				Provincial legislator of Córdoba (2007–2011)

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2019 Argentine general election

Results

Primary elections

See also: Primary elections in Argentina

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.

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.

Party		Presidential candidate	Running mate	Votes	%
	Everyone's Front	Alberto Fernández	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	12,205,938	47.79
	Together for Change	Mauricio Macri	Miguel Ángel Pichetto	8,121,689	31.80
	Federal Consensus	Roberto Lavagna	Juan Manuel Urtubey	2,081,315	8.15
	Workers' Left Front – Unity	Nicolás del Caño	Romina del Plá	723,147	2.83
	NOS Front	Juan José Gómez Centurión	Cynthia Hotton	670,162	2.62
	Unite for Liberty and Dignity	José Luis Espert	Luis Rosales	550,593	2.16
	New Movement for Socialism	Manuela Castañeira	Eduardo Mulhall	179,461	0.70
	Patriotic Front	Alejandro Biondini	Enrique Venturino	58,944	0.23
	Neighborhood Action Movement	Raúl Albarracín	Sergio Pastore	36,411	0.14
	National Autonomist Party	José Antonio Feris	Guillermo Sueldo	32,722	0.13
	Blank votes			882,659	3.46
Invalid votes				318,009	–
Total				25,861,050	100
Registered voters/turnout				33,871,832	76.35
Source: Poder Judicial de la Nación

President

Candidate		Running mate	Party	Votes	%
	Alberto Fernández	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Everyone's Front	12,945,990	48.24
	Mauricio Macri	Miguel Ángel Pichetto	Together for Change	10,811,345	40.28
	Roberto Lavagna	Juan Manuel Urtubey	Federal Consensus	1,649,315	6.14
	Nicolás del Caño	Romina Del Plá	Workers' Left Front – Unity	579,197	2.16
	Juan José Gómez Centurión	Cynthia Hotton	NOS Front	457,955	1.71
	José Luis Espert	Luis Rosales	Unite for Liberty and Dignity	394,206	1.47
Blank/invalid votes				692,847	–
Total				27,530,855	100
Registered voters/turnout				33,858,733	81.31
Source: Resultados

Popular vote Fernández   48.24% Macri   40.28% Lavagna   6.14% del Caño   2.16% Gómez Centurión   1.71% Espert   1.47%

Results by district

Province	Fernández/Fernández (Frente de Todos)		Macri/Pichetto (Juntos por el Cambio)		Lavagna/Urtubey (Consenso Federal)		Del Caño/del Plá (FIT–U)		Gómez Centurión/Hotton (NOS)		Espert/Rosales (UNITE)		Blanks/Invalid		Turnout
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
Buenos Aires	5.294.879	52.20%	3.640.552	35.89%	638.990	6.30%	273.495	2.70%	150.067	1.48%	145.743	1.43%	230.767	2.22%	10.374.493	82.19%
Federal Capital	719.655	35.46%	1.068.134	52.64%	130.475	6.43%	59.066	2.91%	13.863	0.68%	38.013	1.87%	46.228	2.23%	2.075.434	76.85%
Catamarca	132.590	56.66%	79.568	34.00%	13.197	5.64%	3.508	1.50%	2.136	0.91%	3.011	1.29%	24.941	9.63%	258.951	81.04%
Chaco	404.758	55.73%	258.432	35.58%	27.636	3.81%	6.986	0.96%	20.617	2.84%	7.856	1.08%	11.370	1.54%	737.655	77.61%
Chubut	174.726	52.42%	97.837	29.35%	25.357	7.61%	13.117	3.94%	14.253	4.28%	8.029	2.40%	14.289	4.11%	347.608	77.78%
Córdoba	666.445	29.31%	1.394.104	61.31%	113.734	5.00%	37.612	1.65%	31.869	1.40%	30.213	1.33%	68.489	2.93%	2.342.466	79.01%
Corrientes	354.968	51.19%	290.690	41.92%	21.658	3.12%	6.522	0.94%	12.515	1.80%	7.044	1.02%	13.427	1.90%	706.824	80.75%
Entre Ríos	390.587	44.37%	391.495	44.47%	55.030	6.25%	14.504	1.65%	14.647	1.66%	14.111	1.60%	14.576	1.63%	894.950	80.59%
Formosa	229.774	65.21%	100.280	28.46%	11.057	3.14%	3.112	0.88%	5.334	1.51%	2.797	0.79%	5.137	1.44%	357.491	77.75%
Jujuy	207.120	46.19%	186.104	41.50%	26.835	5.98%	9.214	2.05%	10.512	2.34%	8.617	1.92%	8.714	1.91%	457.116	81.79%
La Pampa	115.095	50.07%	86.744	37.74%	15.137	6.59%	4.727	2.06%	4.676	2.03%	3.471	1.51%	3.665	1.57%	233.515	81.25%
La Rioja	85.779	47.37%	80.462	44.43%	7.844	4.33%	2.127	1.17%	2.087	1.15%	2.801	1.55%	52.964	22.63%	234.064	80.78%
Mendoza	435.313	37.83%	576.493	50.10%	75.448	6.56%	26.315	2.29%	22.715	1.97%	14.370	1.25%	23.902	2.03%	1.174.556	81.10%
Misiones	417.752	57.71%	245.254	33.88%	24.451	3.38%	6.704	0.93%	21.239	2.93%	8.537	1.18%	18.551	2.50%	742.488	79.90%
Neuquén	194.158	47.75%	151.698	37.31%	25.621	6.30%	15.205	3.74%	11.742	2.89%	8.166	2.01%	20.127	4.72%	426.717	84.23%
Río Negro	247.664	57.23%	123.674	28.58%	27.483	6.35%	11.252	2.60%	14.173	3.28%	8.482	1.96%	19.431	4.30%	452.159	80.35%
Salta	374.369	48.82%	266.406	34.74%	82.358	10.74%	13.625	1.78%	16.635	2.17%	13.378	1.74%	17.608	2.24%	784.379	76.11%
San Juan	242.060	53.01%	160.449	35.14%	33.004	7.23%	6.928	1.52%	8.388	1.84%	5.759	1.26%	8.341	1.79%	464.929	82.44%
San Luis	129.118	41.68%	139.479	45.03%	20.954	6.76%	7.171	2.32%	7.683	2.48%	5.354	1.73%	8.076	2.54%	317.835	81.53%
Santa Cruz	108.323	59.77%	51.183	28.24%	9.123	5.03%	6.032	3.33%	5.171	2.85%	1.402	0.77%	7.649	4.05%	188.883	74.73%
Santa Fe	920.202	42.68%	937.611	43.49%	193.603	8.98%	30.862	1.43%	33.247	1.54%	40.353	1.87%	43.662	1.99%	2.199.540	79.48%
Santiago del Estero	451.082	74.95%	110.525	18.37%	20.103	3.34%	5.755	0.96%	9.220	1.53%	5.123	0.85%	9.924	1.62%	611.732	80.45%
Tierra del Fuego	57.887	56.93%	26.529	26.09%	7.785	7.66%	2.760	2.71%	3.925	3.86%	2.803	2.76%	3.208	3.06%	104.897	75.88%
Tucumán	591.686	57.76%	347.642	33.94%	42.432	4.14%	12.598	1.23%	21.241	2.07%	8.773	0.86%	17.801	1.71%	1.042.173	82.84%
Total	12.945.990	48.24%	10.811.345	40.28%	1.649.315	6.14%	579.197	2.16%	457.955	1.71%	394.206	1.47%	692.847	2.52%	27.530.855	81.31%

Chamber of Deputies

Party		Votes	%	Seats				+/–
				Total before	Not up	Won	Total after
	Everyone's Front	11,359,508	45.50		53	64	120
	Together for Change	10,020,835	40.14		63	56	116
	Federal Consensus	1,466,881	5.88		3	3	10
	Civic Front for Santiago	326,566	1.26	5	0	3	(TODOS)
	We Do for Córdoba	377,844	1.51	0	0	1	1
	Front for the Renewal of Concord	191,757	0.77	5	2	1	(TODOS)
	Together We Are Río Negro	121,478	0.49	0	0	1	1
	Let's All Live Better	17,992	0.07	0	0	1	1
	Others parties	1,098,595	4.38			0	3
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	–	–	–	–
Total			100	257	127	130	257	-
Registered voters / turnout		32,890,049		–	–	–	–	–
Source:

Popular vote TODOS   45.50% JxC   40.14% CF   5.88% Others   8.48%

Seats summary TODOS   46.69% JxC   45.14% CF   2.33% Others   5.84%

Senate

Party		Votes	%	Seats				+/–
				Total before	Not up	Won	Total after
	Everyone's Front					13	36
	Together for Change					8	28
	Civic Front for Santiago	328,627				2	2	0
	Together We Are Río Negro	153,338		0	0	1	1	1
	Others parties					0
Invalid/blank votes			–	–	–	–	–	–
Total			100	72	48	24	72	-
Registered voters / turnout				–	–	–	–	–
Source:

Seats summary TODOS   50.00% JxC   38.89% Others   11.11%

Provincial Elections

Date	District	Offices	Winner	Runner-up
10 March	Neuquén	Governor Vice Governor 35 provincial deputies	Omar Gutiérrez - Marcos Koopmann (People's Neuquin Movement) (40,19 %)	Ramón Rioseco - Darío Martínez (Neuquin Front–Citizens' Unity) (25,93 %)
7 April	Río Negro	Governor Vice Governor 46 provincial deputies	Arabela Carreras - Alejandro Palmieri (Together we are Río Negro) (52,63 %)	Martín Soria - Magdalena Odarda (Front for Victory) (34,97 %)
12 May	Córdoba	Governor Vice Governor 70 provincial deputies	Juan Schiaretti - Manuel Calvo (We do for Córdoba) (57,38 %)	Mario Negri - Héctor Baldassi (Córdoba Changes) (18,85 %)
19 May	La Pampa	Governor Vice Governor 30 provincial deputies	Sergio Ziliotto - Mariano Fernández (Pampean Justicialist Front) (52,68 %)	Daniel Kroneberger - Luis Evangelista (Cambiemos La Pampa) (31,80 %)
2 June	Misiones	Governor Vice Governor 20 provincial deputies	Oscar Herrera Ahuad - Carlos Omar Arce (Front for the Renewal of Concord) (72,81 %)	Humberto Schiavoni - Luis Mario Pastori (Together for Change) (17,59 %)
	San Juan	Governor Vice Governor 36 provincial deputies	Sergio Uñac - Roberto Gattoni (Everyone Front) (55,84 %)	Marcelo Orrego - Susana Laciar (Front with You) (33,91 %)
9 June	Chubut	Governor Vice Governor 27 provincial deputies	Mariano Arcioni - Ricardo Sastre (Chubut Ahead) (41,35 %)	Carlos Linares - Claudia Bard (Chubut Patriotic Front) (33,97 %)
	Entre Ríos	Governor Vice Governor 34 provincial deputies 17 provincial senators	Gustavo Bordet - María Laura Stratta (Believe Entre Ríos) (57,43 %)	Atilio Benedetti - Gustavo Hein (Cambiemos) (35,57 %)
	Jujuy	Governor Vice Governor 24 provincial deputies	Gerardo Morales - Carlos Haquim (Change Jujuy) (43,76 %)	Julio Ferreyra - Adrián Mendieta (Justicialist Front) (32,77 %)
	Tucumán	Governor Vice Governor 49 provincial deputies	Juan Luis Manzur - Osvaldo Jaldo (Justicialist Front for Tucumán) (51,86 %)	Silvia Elías de Pérez - José Manuel Paz (Let's Go Tucumán) (20,41 %)
16 June	Formosa	Governor Vice Governor 15 provincial deputies	Gildo Insfrán - Eber Wilson Solís (Justicialist Party) (70,66 %)	Adrián Bogado - Iván Nicolás Kaluk (Formosan Broad Front) (28,89 %)
	San Luis	Governor Vice Governor 21 provincial deputies 5 provincial senators	Alberto Rodríguez Saá - Eduardo Mones Ruiz (Justicialist Unity) (42,34 %)	Claudio Poggi - Enrique Ariel Ponce (United San Luis) (34,54 %)
	Santa Fe	Governor Vice Governor 50 provincial deputies 19 provincial senators	Omar Perotti - Alejandra Rodenas (Together Front) (42,31 %)	Antonio Bonfatti - María Victoria Tejeda (Progessive, Civic and Social Front) (37,91 %)
	Tierra del Fuego	Governor Vice Governor 15 provincial deputies	Gustavo Melella - Mónica Urquiza (FORJA) (55,03 %)	Rosana Bertone - Juan Carlos Arcando (Fueguin Unity) (40,86 %)
11 August	Santa Cruz	Governor Vice Governor 24 provincial deputies	Alicia Kirchner - Eugenio Quiroga (Santacruzean Accord) (58,59%)	Eduardo Costa - Liliana Andrade (To get out ahead) (32,03%)
29 September	Mendoza	Governor Vice Governor 24 provincial deputies 19 provincial senators	Rodolfo Suárez - Mario Abed (Change Mendoza) (51,63%)	Anabel Fernández Sagasti - Jorge Tanus (Choose Mendoza) (36,21%)
13 October	Chaco	Governor Vice Governor 16 provincial deputies	Jorge Capitanich - Analía Rach Quiroga (Chaquean Front) (49,32%)	Carim Peche - Roy Nikisch (We are all Chaco) (31,40%)
27 October	Buenos Aires (in detail)	Governor Vice Governor 46 provincial deputies 23 provincial senators	Axel Kicillof - Verónica Magario (Everyone's Front) (52,28%)	María Eugenia Vidal - Daniel Salvador (Together for Change) (38,39%)
	Catamarca	Governor Vice Governor 20 provincial deputies 8 provincial senators	Raúl Jalil - Rubén Dusso (Everyone's Front) (60,40%)	Roberto Gómez - Lía Quiroga (Together for Change) (33,46%)
	Buenos Aires City	Chief of Government Vice Chief of Government 30 legislators	Horacio Rodríguez Larreta - Diego Santilli (Together for Change) (55,90%)	Matías Lammens - Gisela Marziotta (Everyone's Front) (35,06%)
	La Rioja	Governor Vice Governor 18 provincial deputies	Ricardo Quintela - Florencia López (Everyone's Front) (40,84%)	Julio Martínez - Teresita Luna (Together for La Rioja) (27,90%)
10 November	Salta	Governor Vice Governor 30 provincial deputies 11 provincial senators	Gustavo Sáenz - Antonio Marocco (Sáenz Governor Front) (53,85%)	Sergio Leavy - Emiliano Estrada (Everyone's Front) (26,00%)