Governor of Buenos Aires Province

Governor of the Buenos Aires Province
Coat of arms of the Buenos Aires Province
Incumbent Axel Kicillof since December 11, 2019
Style	Señor/a Gobernador/a
Residence	Residencia del Gobernador en La Plata
Appointer	Direct vote
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	Miguel de Azcuénaga
Formation	1812
Website	https://www.gba.gob.ar/

The Governor of the Buenos Aires province is a citizen of the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of Buenos Aires Province is Axel Kicillof since December 11, 2019.

Casa de Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires

Requirements

To be able to be elected governor, the person must be an Argentine citizen and must have been born in Argentina, or be the child of an Argentine citizen if born in a foreign country. The citizen must also be at least 30 years old, and have at least 5 uninterrupted years of residence in the province if not natural from it. The term lasts 4 years, with the chance of a single reelection.

List of officeholders

Governor-intendant

Period	Governor
January 13, 1812 – February 10, 1813	Miguel de Azcuénaga (interim)
February 14, 1813 – April 16, 1815	Antonio González Balcarce
April 16, 1815 – May 19, 1815	Buenos Aires Cabildo (interim)
May 19, 1815 – June 8, 1818	Manuel Luis de Oliden
June 8, 1818 – Julio 30, 1818	José Rondeau
July 30, 1818 – November 12, 1818	Juan Ramón Balcarce
November 13, 1818 – March 16, 1819	Eustaquio Díaz Vélez (interim)
March 17, 1819 – February 9, 1820	Juan Ramón Balcarce
February 9, 1820 – February 11, 1820	Matías de Irigoyen

United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the Argentine Confederation

Governors managing international relations of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the Argentine Confederation (de facto Heads of State).

Period	Governor	Portrait
February 11, 1820 – February 18, 1820	Matías de Irigoyen (interim)
February 18, 1820 – March 6, 1820	Manuel de Sarratea (interim)
March 6, 1820 – March 11, 1820	Juan Ramón González Balcarce (interim)
March 11, 1820 – May 2, 1820	Manuel de Sarratea
May 2, 1820 – June 20, 1820	Ildefonso Ramos Mexía
June 20, 1820 – June 23, 1820	Buenos Aires Cabildo (interim)
June 23, 1820 – June 29, 1820	Miguel Estanislao Soler (interim)
June 29, 1820 – September 20, 1820	Manuel Dorrego (interim)
September 20, 1820 – April 2, 1824	Martín Rodríguez
April 2, 1824 — March 7, 1826	Juan Gregorio de Las Heras
March 7, 1826 — August 17, 1827	No provincial authorities during the short existence of an official presidency
August 17, 1827 — December 1, 1828	Manuel Dorrego
December 1, 1828 — June 26, 1829	Juan Galo Lavalle (de facto)
June 26, 1829 — December 6, 1829	Juan José Viamonte (interim)
December 6, 1829 — December 5, 1832	Juan Manuel de Rosas
December 17, 1832 — November 4, 1833	Juan Ramón González Balcarce
November 4, 1833 — June 27, 1834	Juan José Viamonte
June 27, 1834 — March 7, 1835	Manuel Vicente Maza (interim)
March 7, 1835 — February 3, 1852	Juan Manuel de Rosas
February 3, 1852 — July 26, 1852	Vicente López y Planes (interim)

Argentine Confederation

Governors without national power during the Argentine Confederation.

Period	Governor	Portrait
July 26, 1852 — September 4, 1852	Justo José de Urquiza (provisional, at the same time Head of State as Provisional Director)
September 4, 1852 — September 11, 1852	José Miguel Galán (interim)

State of Buenos Aires (independent from Argentina)

Period	Governor	Portrait
September 11, 1852 — October 31, 1852	Manuel Guillermo Pinto (interim)
October 31, 1852 — December 7, 1852	Valentín Alsina
December 7, 1852 — June 28, 1853	Manuel Guillermo Pinto (interim)
June 28, 1853 — July 24, 1853	Junta de Representantes
July 24, 1853 — May 27, 1854	Pastor Obligado (provisional)
May 27, 1854 – December 21, 1858	Pastor Obligado (constitutional)
December 21, 1858 – November 8, 1859	Valentín Alsina
November 8, 1859 – May 3, 1860	Felipe Llavallol (interim)
May 3, 1860 – December 12, 1861	Bartolomé Mitre

List of provincial governors before the enactment of the Sáenz Peña Law (1862–1914)

See also: Sáenz Peña Law

Governor			Term in office	Party	Notes	Vice Governor
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Vicente Cazón	11 October 1862 – 15 October 1862	Independent	Interim administration.	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Mariano Saavedra	15 October 1862 – 1 May 1866	Independent
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Adolfo Alsina	1 May 1866 – 10 October 1868	Autonomist
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Emilio Castro	10 October 1868 – 3 May 1872	Autonomist
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Mariano Acosta	3 May 1872 – 12 September 1874	Autonomist	Resigned office.
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Álvaro Barros	12 September 1874 – 1 May 1875	Independent	Interim administration.
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Carlos Casares	1 May 1875 – 1 May 1878	PAN		Luis Sáenz Peña
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Carlos Tejedor	1 May 1878 – 1 July 1880	Independent	Resigned after the 1880 Uprising.	José María Moreno
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	José María Moreno	1 July 1880 – 18 July 1880	Independent	Assumed office upon Tejedor's resignation.	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	José María Bustillo	18 July 1890 – 11 October 1890	Independent	Federal interventor appointed by Nicolás Avellaneda
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Juan José Romero	11 October 1890 – 1 May 1881	Independent	Federal interventor appointed by Nicolás Avellaneda
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Dardo Rocha	1 May 1881 – 1 May 1894	PAN		Adolfo Gonzales Chaves
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Carlos Alfredo D'Amico	1 May 1884 – 1 May 1887	Independent		Matías Cardoso
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Máximo Paz	1 May 1887 – 1 May 1890	PAN		Claudio Stegmann
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Julio A. Costa	1 May 1890 – 8 August 1893	PAN		Víctor del Carril
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Juan Carlos Belgrano	8 August 1893 – 18 August 1893	UCR	Governor during the 1893 Uprising.	Vacant
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Eduardo Olivera	18 August 1893 – 21 September 1893	PAN	Federal interventor appointed by Luis Sáenz Peña
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Lucio Vicente López	21 September 1893 – 1 May 1894	PAN	Federal interventor appointed by Luis Sáenz Peña
		Guillermo Udaondo	1 May 1894 – 1 May 1898	UCN		José Inocencio Arias
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Bernardo de Irigoyen	1 May 1898 – 1 May 1902	UCR		Alfredo Demarchi
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Marcelino Ugarte	1 May 1902 – 1 May 1906	PAN		Adolfo Saldías
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Ignacio Darío Irigoyen	1 May 1906 – 1 May 1910	PAN		Ezequiel de la Serna
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	José Inocencio Arias	1 May 1910 – 12 September 1912	Independent		Faustino de Lezica
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Ezequiel de la Serna	12 September 1912 – 15 March 1913	PAN	Assumed office upon Arias's death.	Vacant
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Eduardo Arana	15 March 1913 – 2 July 1913	PAN	Provincial Senate president. Assumed office upon de la Serna's death.	Vacant
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Juan Manuel Ortiz de Rosas	2 July 1913 – 1 September 1913	PAN		Luis García
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Luis García	1 September 1913 – 1 May 1914	PAN	Assumed office upon Ortiz de Rosas's death.	Vacant

List of governors since the enactment of the Sáenz Peña Law (1914–present)

Governor			Term in office	Party	Election	Vice Governor
	style="background:Template:National Autonomist Party/meta/color;"|	Marcelino Ugarte	1 May 1914 – 25 April 1917	PAN	1913	Vicente Peralta Alvear
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	José Luis Cantilo	25 April 1917 – 1 May 1918	UCR	Federal interventor appointed by Hipólito Yrigoyen	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	José Camilo Crotto	1 May 1918 – 20 May 1921	UCR	1918	Luis Monteverde
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Luis Monteverde	20 May 1921 – 1 May 1926	UCR		Vacant
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	José Luis Cantilo	1 May 1922 – 1 May 1926	UCR	1920	Emilio Solanet
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Valentin Vergara	1 May 1926 – 1 May 1930	UCR	1925	Victoriano de Ortúzar
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Nereo Crovetto	1 May 1930 – 11 September 1930	UCR	1929	Juan Garralda
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Carlos Meyer Pellegrini (de facto)	11 September 1930 – 31 December 1930	—	De facto federal interventor	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Clodomiro Zavalía (de facto)	31 December 1930 – 19 January 1931	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Carlos Meyer Pellegrini (de facto)	19 January 1931 – 4 May 1931	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Mariano Vedia (de facto)	4 May 1931 – 12 May 1931	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Manuel Ramón Alvarado (de facto)	12 May 1931 – 2 October 1931	—	De facto federal interventor
		Raymundo Meabe (de facto)	2 October 1931 – 18 February 1932	PLC	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Honorio Pueyrredón	Never took office	UCR	April 1931	Mario Guido
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Federico Martínez de Hoz	15 March 1935 – 20 January 1936	PDN	November 1931	Raúl Díaz
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Raúl Díaz	15 March 1935 – 20 January 1936	PDN		Vacant
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Edgardo J. Míguez	20 January 1936 – 18 February 1936	PDN	—
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Raúl Díaz	18 February 1936 – 7 March 1940	PDN	—
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Manuel Fresco	18 February 1936 – 7 March 1940	PDN	1935	Aurelio Amodeo
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Alberto Barceló	Never took office	PDN	1940	Edgardo J. Míguez
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Luis Cassinelli	7 March 1940 – 13 March 1940	—	National commissioner appointed by Ramón Castillo	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Octavio R. Amadeo	13 March 1940 – 27 May 1940	—	Federal interventor appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Carlos Herrera	27 May 1940 – 4 June 1940	—	Federal interventor appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Octavio R. Amadeo	4 June 1940 – 1 February 1941	—	Federal interventor appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Eduardo T. López	1 February 1941 – 10 February 1941	—	Federal interventor appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Eleazar Videla	10 February 1941 – 1 September 1941	—	National commissioner appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Enrique Rottjer	1 September 1941 – 13 September 1941	—	Federal interventor appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Dimas González Gowland	13 September 1941 – 7 January 1942	—	National commissioner appointed by Ramón Castillo
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Rodolfo Moreno	7 January 1942 – 12 June 1943	PDN	1941	Edgardo J. Míguez
	style="background:Template:National Democratic Party (Argentina)/meta/color;"|	Edgardo J. Míguez	13 April 1943 – 12 June 1943	PDN		Vacant
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Oscar Cazalas (de facto)	12 June 1943 – 17 June 1943	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Armando Verdaguer (de facto)	17 June 1943 – 22 December 1943	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Faustino J. Legón (de facto)	22 December 1943 – 5 January 1944	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Julio O. Ojea (de facto)	5 January 1944 – 5 May 1944	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Luis García Mata (de facto)	5 May 1944 – 19 July 1944	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Juan Carlos Sanguinetti (de facto)	19 July 1944 – 27 December 1944	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Roberto M. Vanetta (de facto)	27 December 1944 – 12 January 1945	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Juan Atilio Bramuglia (de facto)	12 January 1945 – 19 September 1945	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Ramón del Río (de facto)	19 September 1945 – 28 September 1945	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Alberto H. Reales (de facto)	28 September 1945 – 17 October 1945	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Francisco Sáenz Kelly (de facto)	17 October 1945 – 29 October 1945	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Ramón Albariño (de facto)	29 October 1945 – 22 January 1946	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Juan Enrique Coronas (de facto)	22 January 1946 – 24 January 1946	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Francisco Sáenz Kelly (de facto)	24 January 1946 – 16 May 1946	—	De facto federal interventor
	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Domingo Mercante	16 May 1946 – 4 June 1952	Labour	1946	Juan Bautista Machado
	Peronist			1950	José Luis Passerini
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Carlos Aloé	4 June 1952 – 25 September 1955	Peronist	1951	Carlos Antonio Díaz
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Arturo Ossorio Arana (de facto)	25 September 1955 – 10 November 1955	—	De facto federal interventor	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Juan María Mathet (de facto)	10 November 1955 – 15 November 1956	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Emilio A. Bonnecarrére (de facto)	15 November 1956 – 2 May 1958	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Oscar Alende	2 May 1958 – 19 May 1962	UCRI	1958	Arturo Crosetti
		Andrés Framini	Never took office	Popular Union	1962	Francisco Anglada
	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color;"|	Guillermo Salas Martínez	20 March 1962 – 13 April 1962	—	Federal interventor appointed by Arturo Frondizi
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Jorge Bermúdez Emparanza	20 March 1962 – 13 April 1962	UCR	Federal interventor appointed by Arturo Frondizi
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Roberto Etchepareborda (de facto)	13 April 1962 – 1 June 1962	—	De facto national commissioner
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Ceferino Merbilhaa (de facto)	1 June 1962 – 24 October 1962	—	De facto national commissioner
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Félix Trigo Viera (de facto)	24 October 1962 – 24 April 1963	—	De facto national commissioner
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Francisco A. Imaz (de facto)	24 April 1963 – 12 October 1963	—	De facto national commissioner
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Anselmo Marini	12 October 1963 – 28 June 1966	UCR	1963	Ricardo Lavalle
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Jorge Von Stecher (de facto)	28 June 1966 – 5 July 1966	—	De facto federal interventor	Vacant
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Francisco A. Imaz (de facto)	5 July 1966 – 16 June 1969	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Saturnino Llorente (de facto)	16 June 1969 – 10 June 1970	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Horacio Rivara (de facto)	10 June 1970 – 8 September 1971	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Miguel Moragues (de facto)	8 September 1971 – 25 May 1973	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Oscar Bidegain	25 May 1973 – 24 January 1974	Justicialist	1973	Victorio Calabró
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Victorio Calabró	24 January 1974 – 24 March 1976	Justicialist		Vacant
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Adolfo Sigwald (de facto)	24 March 1976 – 7 April 1976	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Ibérico Saint-Jean (de facto)	7 April 1976 – 29 March 1981	—	De facto federal interventor
File:Oscar Bartolomé Gallino.jpg	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Oscar Bartolomé Gallino (de facto)	29 March 1981 – 14 January 1982	—	De facto federal interventor
File:Jorge Aguado.jpg	style="background:Template:Military/meta/color;"|	Jorge Aguado (de facto)	14 January 1982 – 10 December 1983	—	De facto federal interventor
	style="background:Template:Radical Civic Union/meta/color;"|	Alejandro Armendáriz	10 December 1983 – 10 December 1987	UCR	1983	Elva Roulet
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Antonio Cafiero	10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991	Justicialist (Renewal Front)	1987	Luis María Macaya
	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Eduardo Duhalde	10 December 1991 – 10 December 1999	Justicialist	1991	Rafael Romá
	1995
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Carlos Ruckauf	10 December 1999 – 3 January 2002	Justicialist	1999	Felipe Solá
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Felipe Solá	3 January 2002 – 10 December 2007	Justicialist (FPV)		Graciela Gianettasio
	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Daniel Scioli	10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015	Justicialist (FPV)	2007	Alberto Balestrini
	2011				Gabriel Mariotto
	style="background:Template:Cambiemos/meta/color;"|	María Eugenia Vidal	10 December 2015 – 11 December 2019	PRO (Cambiemos)	2015	Daniel Salvador
	style="background:Template:Justicialist Party/meta/color;"|	Axel Kicillof	11 December 2019 – Incumbent	Independent (FDT)	2019	Verónica Magario

See also

• Buenos Aires Province