Presidential and parliamentary elections in Argentina 2015

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Mauricio Macri, the winner of the presidential election.

The 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections in Argentina took place on October 25th. The president and vice-president were elected and, for the National Congress, half of the deputies and a third of the senators (three each in eight provinces).

Since no presidential candidate the required for a win in the first round majority reached, there was on 22 November 2015 ballot that Mauricio Macri from the Conservative Party Republican Proposal (PRO) with 51.34% of votes won.

Primary elections were held on August 9, 2015 . Primaries had first taken place before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Argentina in 2011 .

Presidential election

First ballot

  • Daniel Scioli

  • Mauricio Macri

  • Sergio Massa

  • Margarita Stolbizer

  • Nicolás del Caño

  • Adolfo Rodriguez Saá

The six candidates who prevailed in their election alliances in the primaries and at the same time jumped the current 1.5 percent hurdle for participation are the following:

The incumbent President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ended her second term in a row in December 2015; therefore she could not run for re-election.

According to the final result, the following proportions of votes resulted:

Runoff

According to section 149 of the Argentine electoral law, there is an election winner in the first round if either the first-placed candidate receives at least 45 percent of the votes or he can show 40 percent and an additional ten percentage points ahead of the second-placed candidate.

In the first ballot, according to the pre-count, no candidate could achieve the voting share required to win the election. Therefore, on November 22, 2015, there was a runoff election between first-placed Daniel Scioli and second-placed Mauricio Macri , which Macri won.

Results of the runoff election:

General election

House of Representatives

The electoral alliance of the previous government, Frente para la Victoria, lost its absolute majority in the House of Representatives, but remained the strongest faction. The parties UCR, Coalición Cívica ARI and especially Propuesta Republicana, united in the alliance Cambiemos, which supports Macri, were able to achieve significant profits, but together they are still only the second strongest force.

The blocks after the choice:

Party / alliance MPs
FPV and allies 111
Frente para la Victoria - Partido Justicialista 95
Frente Cívico por Santiago 6th
Social Cristiano 3
Partido Justicialista Pampeano 2
Others (Solidario Si; Movimiento Solidario Popular; Libertad y Democracia; Primero Tucumán; Concertación Forja) 5
Cambiemos 90
Unión- PRO 41
Unión Cívica Radical 40
Coalición Cívica ARI -UNES 5
Frente Cívico y Social de Catamarca 3
Others (Partido Conservador Popular) 1
Peronismo Federal 41
Federal Unidos por una Nueva Argentina 28
Compromiso Federal 4th
Trabajo y Dignidad 2
Others (Cultura, Educación y Trabajo; Unión por Entre Ríos; Compromiso por San Juan; Chubut Somos Todos; Unión Celeste y Blanco; Justicialista de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; Salta Somos Todos) 7th
Progresistas , Proyecto Sur and Allies 9
Partido Socialista 3
Libres del Sur 2
UNEN Suma + 2
Others (GEN, Proyecto Sur) 2
Frente de Izquierda and allies (extreme left) 4th
Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores 3
PTS-Frente de Izquierda 1
Movimiento Popular Neuquino 2
total 257

senate

Senators were elected by majority vote in eight provinces . The strongest force receives two seats and the second strongest one one seat. The Frente para la Victoria and the Cambiemos parties were each able to win mandates.

In the new Senate, the Frente para la Victoria has 41 seats, the UCR and Coalición Cívica 11, the Peronists who do not support the FPV (including the Frente Renovador ) 10, PRO 4, the center-left parties PS and GEN 2 and other parties 4.

The final results in the provinces:

province First Force
(2 Senators) 		Second Force
(1 Senator)
Catamarca Frente para la Victoria (50.65%) Frente Cívico y Social (39.89%)
Cordoba Cambiemos (50.23%) Unión por Córdoba (21.11%)
Corrientes Frente para la Victoria (53.01%) Encuentro por Corrientes (32.67%)
Chubut Frente para la Victoria (42.51%) Frente Unión Chubut somos Todos (34.96%)
La Pampa Frente para la Victoria (45.85%) Propuesta FREPAM (39.58%)
Mendoza Cambiemos (42.87%) Frente para la Victoria (30.53%)
Santa Fe Frente para la Victoria (32.00%) Cambiemos (29.61%)
Tucuman Frente para la Victoria (50.18%) Cambiemos (35.35%)

Web links

Commons : Argentina Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2015  - Pictures, Videos and Audio Files Collection

Footnotes

  1. ↑ www.elecciones.gov.ar (Spanish)
  2. ^ A b Daniel Scioli y Mauricio Macri competirán en el primer ballotage presidencial de la historia argentina , Infobae.com, October 26, 2015
  3. ↑ Cámara Nacional Electoral difundió resultado del escrutinio definitivo , ambito.com, accessed on November 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Section 149 of the Argentine Electoral Act, Leyes-ar.com
  5. ↑ FAZ.net: Change of power in Argentina, The era of Kirchnerism is over , accessed on November 23, 2015.
  6. ^ Official final result of the runoff election , electoral.gov.ar
  7. ↑ a b Este es el Congreso con el que gobernará Macri , Infonews.com, 23 November 2015
  8. ↑ Bloques , website of the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Congress, accessed January 1, 2016
  9. ↑ Senadores Nacionales , portal of the Argentine electoral authority (elecciones.gob.ar)