2011 Argentine general election

2011 Argentine general election
Presidential election
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Registered28,916,183
Turnout79.39%
 
Nominee Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Hermes Binner Ricardo Alfonsín
Party PJ Socialist Party UCR
Alliance FPV-PJ FAP UDESO
Running mate Amado Boudou Norma Morandini Javier González Fraga
Popular vote 11,865,055 3,684,970 2,443,016
Percentage 54.11% 16.81% 11.14%
 
Nominee Alberto Rodríguez Saá Eduardo Duhalde
Party EP [es] PJ
Alliance CF Federal Peronism
Running mate José María Vernet Mario das Neves
Popular vote 1,745,354 1,285,830
Percentage 7.96% 5.86%
Results by province and department.
President before election

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
FPV-PJ

Elected President

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
FPV-PJ

Chamber of Deputies
← 2009 23 October 2011 2013 →
130 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout79.39%
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Front for Victory

52.22 85 +41
Union for Social Development

13.55 16 −14
Broad Progressive Front

13.50 14 +8
Federal Commitment

6.21 6 −15
Popular Front

5.45 2 +2
Civic Coalition ARI

3.00 1 −6
Republican Proposal

2.07 3 −6
Neuquén People's Movement

0.43 1 −1
Rioja Popular Front

0.21 1 +1
Fueguian People's Movement

0.07 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
← 2009 23 October 2011 2013 →
24 of the 72 seats in the Senate
Turnout81.75%
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Front for Victory

57.28 15 +7
Union for Social Development

11.96 3 −8
Broad Progressive Front

11.31 1 −2
Federal Commitment

6.91 3 +3
Rioja Popular Front

0.56 2 +2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chamber of Deputies results by province

General elections were held in Argentina on Sunday, 23 October 2011. Incumbent president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory won in a landslide, with 54% of the vote, securing a second term in office. The Front for Victory won just over half of the seats in the National Congress. As of 2023, this marked the last time the vice president-elect was not a woman.

Mercosur Parliamentarians were also popularly elected for the first time. Another novelty was the introduction of open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries. These took place 14 August 2011 to select the candidates of each political party or coalition.[1]

Presidential campaign

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Ballots used in the primary elections on 14 August.

The nation's myriad parties forged seven coalitions, of which five became contenders for a possible runoff election:

Other coalitions of note include the Workers' Left Front, led by Jorge Altamira, and Proyecto Sur, led by Pino Solanas; the latter left the Socialist Party-led coalition and instead formed an alliance with the MST and the PSA.[4]

The Civic and Social Agreement was an alliance between the UCR and most of what became the Progressive Ample Front and the Civic Coalition, with other, minor allies. This coalition proved unwieldy as the 2011 campaign progressed, however, though various forms of it will be retained in certain provinces for strategic purposes.[5]

Front for Victory (incumbents)

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The Front for Victory (FPV) candidate for the Justicialist Party primaries was current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Her husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, was considered a top candidate to succeed her until his death on 27 October 2010.[6]

She had suffered a significant decline in approval during the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector and the subsequent recession, and the ruling Front for Victory lost its absolute majority in both houses of Congress during the June 2009 mid-term elections.[7] The economy, and her approval ratings, recovered steadily during 2010,[8] however, and the 2011 electoral season began with Fernández de Kirchner's job approval at around 58 percent,[9] with polling indicating that she would likely be reelected in the first round.[10]

She avoided committing herself to running for a second term during the early months of 2011.[11] Two days before the 23 June deadline, however, she announced her decision to run for reelection.[12] She nominated the nation's Economy Minister, Amado Boudou, as her running mate on 25 June.[13] Their ticket won a landslide victory in the 14 August primaries, obtaining just over 50% and besting the runner-up (Alfonsín) by nearly 38%; they won in the City of Buenos Aires and in every province except San Luis (won by Rodríguez Saá).[14]

Support for Fernández de Kirchner was strongest among the poor (65.2%) and those aged 30 to 44 (54.6%). Her support was weakest among the upper middle class (43.5%), though she remained over 24% ahead of the runner-up (Binner) among those polled within that segment.[15]

Federal Peronists

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The leaders of the center-right Federal Peronism were torn between running for primary elections within the PJ against the Front for Victory, or running instead in the general election through another political alliance. Former President Eduardo Duhalde was the first to informally start his pre-candidacy campaign, announcing hypothetical cabinet picks as early as December 2009.[16] The Governors of Chubut, Mario Das Neves, and of San Luis, Alberto Rodríguez Saá, as well as former Governor of Buenos Aires Province Felipe Solá, also stated their intention to run for president. Das Neves became the first Federal Peronist to drop out, while Solá boosted his own prospects by securing an alliance with the conservative Republican Proposal (PRO) on 16 May.[17] Duhalde narrowly defeated Rodríguez Saá in a Buenos Aires Federal Peronism primary held on 22 May, though both men remained front-runners for their party's nomination.[18] Ultimately, each ran on separate Federal Peronist tickets.

Duhalde formally announced his Popular Union candidacy on 9 June, nominating Das Neves as his running mate.[19] Rodríguez Saá, in turn, nominated former Santa Fe Governor José María Vernet as his running mate on his Federal Commitment ticket.[20] Solá, who struggled in the polls, withdrew on 11 June, encouraging local candidates in his fold to form alliances with Duhalde and the party's candidate for Buenos Aires Governor, Francisco de Narváez.[21] De Narváez later endorsed Rodríguez Saá.[22]

Support for Duhalde was strongest among the working class (14.2%) and weakest among young voters (3.9%).[15] Rodríguez Saá polled best among upper middle class voters (14%) and those age 30 to 44 (11.9%); worst among the poor.[15]

Radical Civic Union

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The center-left Radical Civic Union had scheduled primaries for 28 April. Both Ricardo Alfonsín, son of the late former President Raúl Alfonsín, and current party leader Ernesto Sanz started pre-candidacy campaigns; Sanz, however, dropped out on 28 April. Vice President Julio Cobos, considered a likely UCR primary candidate, had stated his intention to run only in August, during the coalition primaries; he dropped out in April as well.[11]

The UCR and the Socialist Party (partners in the Civic and Social Agreement) parted ways in May 2011, with Alfonsín and Santa Fe Governor Hermes Binner running on separate slates for the primaries in August, and likely in the general election, as well.[5] Alfonsín secured an alliance with Federal Peronist candidate Francisco de Narváez in Buenos Aires Province,[23] De Narváez ran for governor with his senior partner's endorsement in return for his support for Alfonsín's presidential campaign.[23][24] Alfonsín nominated former Central Bank President Javier González Fraga, a non-partisan economist close to both the UCR and Federal Peronism, as his running-mate on 2 June.[5]

De Narváez withdrew his endorsement of Alfonsín in favor of Rodríguez Saá following the 14 August primaries,[22] though he continued his campaign for Governor of Buenos Aires with Alfonsín's endorsement.[25]

Alfonsín's support was strongest among those age 45 to 59 (14.6%), and weakest among young voters (5.3%).[15]

Socialists

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Binner endorsed GEN leader Margarita Stolbizer for Governor of Buenos Aires following his break with Alfonsín,[24] and formally announced his Broad Progressive Front candidacy on 11 June; he nominated Córdoba Senator Norma Morandini as his running mate.[26] His alliance with Pino Solanas was dissolved the following week, however, and the Proyecto Sur leader instead joined a coalition of minor, left-wing parties.[4]

Binner, despite obtaining fourth place, fared better than expected by local analysts in the 14 August primary,[27] and became the runner-up in subsequent polls. His support was strongest among the middle (18.8%) and upper middle classes (18.9%), while weakest among the poor (6.5%); among the broad age groups, voters 30 to 44 were the most supportive (19.3%).[15]

Civic Coalition

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The leader of the centrist Civic Coalition, Elisa Carrió, reversed her earlier intention to opt out of the 2011 race, and following the departure of her Civic Coalition from the Civic and Social Agreement formed in 2009 with the UCR, she announced her candidacy for president on 12 December 2010.[28] Carrió withdrew her presidential bid following a poor showing in the 14 August primaries, where she obtained 3%.[29]

Other candidates

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Numerous other candidates, or potential candidates, dropped out in May 2011, notably Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, who instead sought a second term as mayor, and left-wing film maker Fernando Solanas (who ran unsuccessfully for the same post).[30] Solanas nominated Congresswoman Alcira Argumedo as Proyecto Sur's candidate for president on 22 June.[31] The 14 August primary effectively ended Argumedo's campaign, as well as those of Neighbors' Action Movement (MAV) candidate Sergio Pastore, and People's Countryside Party (PCP) candidate José Bonacci; neither had reached the requisite 1.5% threshold needed to advance to the general election.[32]

The candidate for the Workers' Left Front (FIT), Jorge Altamira, fared unexpectedly well and advanced to the general election.[33] Altamira polled best among the poor (7.9%) and among the upper middle class (5.4%).[15]

Opinion polls

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Numerous consulting firms conducted polling throughout the campaign, whereby respondents chose from a number of declared or potential first-round candidates.

Pollster Date published Alfonsín Binner Carrió Duhalde Fernández de Kirchner Macri Rodríguez Saá Others DK/NR Source
Ibarómetro 12 January 12.1 – – 10.4 40.0 8.7 – 4.2 – [1]
Opinión Autenticada 9 March 11.6 – 3.9 7.2 30.5 12.6 3.1 19.4 11.7 [2]
Aresco 7 April 9.6 – 6.6 14.2 49.9 12.7 – 6.9 – [3]
Equis 28 April 6.1 – 2.4 5.3 44.0 11.1 – 14.4 16.9 [4]
Aresco 16 May 10.8 – 7.2 15.3 45.1 * – – – [5]
Ibarómetro 16 May 12.0 – – – 44.6 9.9* 9.0 – – [6]
OPSM 16 May 18.4 – 5.1 11.1 41.7 * 7.3 – – [7]
Ricardo Rouvier 16 May 22.3 – 4.8 6.6 49.8 * 6.0 – – [8]
Isonomía 25 May 12.6 5.6 8.0 10.1 41.2 * 5.4 9.3 – [9]
OPSM 7 June 14.6 13.4 4.8 9.7 40.8 * 8.2 – 10.5 [10]
CEOP 12 June 12.8 4.3 5.9 7.5 48.2 * 5.5 4.5 8.4 [11]
Management & Fit 12 June 15.3 5.1 4.0 5.8 33.4 * 7.0 1.1 23.5 [12]
Nueva Comunicación 14 June 16.7 8.0 8.0 12.3 34.3 * 8.0 3.7 9.3 [13]
Aresco 20 June 14.0 7.5 6.9 16.3 40.5 * 5.1 9.7 – [14]
Aresco 28 July 15.3 6.9 8.2 21.1 36.1 * 3.6 8.8 – [15]
Graciela Römer & Asoc. 1 August 15.9 6.3 5.5 9.9 40.4 * 4.1 1.0 16.9 [16]
Opinión Autenticada 1 August 19.7 5.2 4.0 13.1 38.1 * 6.1 1.1 12.0 [17]
Equis 28 August 8.2 13.4 1.4* 7.6 52.1 * 9.9 4.8 2.6 [18]
Nueva Comunicación 12 September 7.6 15.8 1.5* 9.1 51.7 * 8.8 1.7 3.8 [19]
OPSM 2 October 9.8 13.9 3.5* 5.7 45.7 * 8.5 2.5 10.4 [20]
Analogías 3 October 9.0 13.2 1.1* 6.8 52.9 * 5.2 -- 12.0 [21]
Equis 7 October 7.8 14.8 1.4* 6.5 52.6 * 10.6 1.1 4.8 [22]
Giacobbe & Asoc. 21 October 9.1 16.6 * 7.9 53.1 * 10.2 3.1 -- [23]

* Withdrew

Favourability

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A poll conducted by Mora y Araujo for Ipsos on 28 September revealed favourability and unfavourability ratings for six of the seven candidates appearing on the general election ballot.[15]

Candidate Favorable Unfavorable Neither/NR Net Approval
Ricardo Alfonsín 29% 61% 10% −32%
Hermes Binner 39% 32% 29% 7%
Elisa Carrió 15% 74% 11% −59%
Eduardo Duhalde 21% 74% 5% −53%
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 65% 33% 2% 32%
Alberto Rodríguez Saá 40% 46% 14% −6%

Results

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Primary elections

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Open primary elections for the Presidency were held nationwide on 14 August.

With this system, all parties run primary elections in a same general elections. 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 will be allowed to run in the main elections.

CandidateRunning matePartyVotes%
Cristina Fernández de KirchnerAmado BoudouFront for Victory10,762,21747.98
Ricardo AlfonsínJavier González FragaUnion for Social Development2,614,21111.65
Eduardo DuhaldeMario Das NevesPopular Front2,595,99611.57
Hermes BinnerNorma MorandiniBroad Progressive Front2,180,1109.72
Alberto Rodríguez SaáJosé María VernetFederal Commitment1,749,9717.80
Elisa CarrióAdrián PérezCivic Coalition ARI689,0333.07
Jorge AltamiraChristian CastilloWorkers' Left Front527,2372.35
Alcira ArgumedoJorge CardelliProyecto Sur190,0940.85
Sergio PastoreGilda RodríguezNeighbourhood Action Movement65,0310.29
José BonacciJosé VillenaPeople's Countryside Party48,7740.22
Blank votes1,007,7534.49
Total22,430,427100.00
Valid votes22,430,42798.79
Invalid/blank votes274,9511.21
Total votes22,705,378100.00
Registered voters/turnout28,861,21678.67
Source: DINE[34]

President

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Ballot papers for the presidential election.

The president and vice-president were chosen directly in a two-round system election. Candidates who obtained less than 1.5% during the preliminary round on 14 August were excluded from the general election on 23 October.[32]

Early results on election night awarded incumbent president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of the Front for Victory (FPV) a second, four-year term. Winning in the City of Buenos Aires and every province except San Luis (won by Federal Commitment candidate Alberto Rodríguez Saá),[35] she became the first candidate to obtain an absolute majority of the popular vote (54%) since Raúl Alfonsín in 1983, and upon completion of ballot processing, the margin of victory (37.1%) exceeded Juan Perón's record 36% margin obtained in 1973.[36] Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman re-elected as head of state in Latin American history.[37]

CandidateRunning matePartyVotes%
Cristina Fernández de KirchnerAmado BoudouFront for Victory11,865,05554.11
Hermes BinnerNorma MorandiniBroad Progressive Front3,684,97016.81
Ricardo AlfonsínJavier González FragaUnion for Social Development2,443,01611.14
Alberto Rodríguez SaáJosé María VernetFederal Commitment1,745,3547.96
Eduardo DuhaldeMario Das NevesPopular Front1,285,8305.86
Jorge AltamiraChristian CastilloWorkers' Left Front503,3722.30
Elisa CarrióAdrián PérezCivic Coalition ARI399,6851.82
Total21,927,282100.00
Valid votes21,927,28295.52
Invalid votes225,7410.98
Blank votes803,3623.50
Total votes22,956,385100.00
Registered voters/turnout28,916,18379.39
Source: DINE,[38] Ministry of the Interior[39]

Chamber of Deputies

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All 23 provinces and the city of Buenos Aires held elections to renew half of the Chamber of Deputies (lower house). Each province and the autonomous city elects a number of at-large representatives on a party list system roughly proportional to their population, and no province is allotted fewer than five Deputies. The system used to know how many deputies per party in each district is D'Hondt method.

Early projections suggested that President Cristina Kirchner's FpV would increase their representation in the Lower House from 87 seats (out of 257),[40] to around 116; the presence of an estimated ten allies would put them three votes shy of an absolute majority.[41]

Party or allianceVotes%Seats
Won
Front for VictoryFront for Victory10,121,28149.1376
Civic Front for Santiago280,2011.364
Front for the Renewal of Concord249,4291.213
Humanist Party88,3470.431
Justicialist Party11,6950.061
Popular Encounter6,8510.030
Total10,757,80452.2285
Union for Social DevelopmentUnion for Social Development1,619,6027.8610
Radical Civic Union1,061,5045.155
Civic and Social Front93,4420.451
Federal Party16,4160.080
Total2,790,96413.5516
Broad Progressive FrontBroad Progressive Front2,568,45712.4714
Socialist Party158,5880.770
Generation for a National Encounter40,3140.200
Freemen of the South Movement13,6250.070
Total2,780,98413.5014
Federal CommitmentFederal Commitment1,192,7715.796
Independent Movement of Retirees and Unemployed59,6680.290
Provincial Union20,4940.100
Partido Es Posible [es]5,6840.030
Total1,278,6176.216
Popular FrontPopular Front729,9203.542
Popular Union132,1310.640
People's Reconstruction Party52,2770.250
Salta Front50,8940.250
Autonomist Party45,6290.220
Independent Party of Chubut45,3510.220
Christian Democratic Party24,5900.120
Tucumán Popular Change21,1610.100
Independent Renewal Movement14,9240.070
Integration and Development Movement3,5170.020
Fortress Party1,5310.010
Federal Republican Agreement1,3440.010
Total1,123,2695.452
Civic Coalition ARICivic Coalition ARI599,9662.911
Citizen Participation Movement9,7160.050
Union for Liberty [es]8,0650.040
Total617,7473.001
Workers' Left FrontWorkers' Left Front499,5572.430
Workers' Party61,6380.300
Socialist Left28,9190.140
Total590,1142.860
Republican Proposal427,4292.073
Neuquén People's Movement88,1970.431
Proyecto SurProyecto Sur33,2290.160
Workers' Socialist Movement9,9370.050
South Encounter4,7200.020
Total47,8860.230
Rioja Popular Front42,7360.211
Jujuy First Front25,0250.120
Fueguian People's Movement13,7880.071
Citizen Dignity7,4910.040
Patagonian Social Party4,7120.020
Popular Party of Tierra del Fuego1,3630.010
City in Action Party9470.000
Total20,599,073100.00130
Valid votes20,599,07389.74
Invalid votes217,2320.95
Blank votes2,138,9709.32
Total votes22,955,275100.00
Registered voters/turnout28,916,23079.39
Source: DINE,[42] Ministry of the Interior[39]

Results by province

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Province FPV UDESO FAP CF Others
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Buenos Aires 4,592,054 57.10 22 928,027 11.54 4 1,043,165 12.97 5 447,291 5.56 2 1,031,907 12.83 2
Buenos Aires City 548,305 29.16 5 132,049 7.02 1 316,476 16.83 2 108,663 5.78 — 774,733 41.20 4
Catamarca 123,706 68.42 2 40,338 22.31 — 7,312 4.04 — — — — 9,440 5.22 —
Chaco 323,418 62.06 2 115,254 22.11 1 35,439 6.80 — — — — 47,053 9.03 —
Chubut 153,206 60.68 3 31,900 12.63 — — — — 8,197 3.25 — 59,176 23.44 —
Córdoba 633,868 34.97 4 368,463 20.33 2 366,754 20.23 2 215,816 11.91 1 227,809 12.57 —
Corrientes 294,306 65.82 3 86,120 19.26 1 24,878 5.56 — — — — 41,867 9.36 —
Entre Ríos 340,282 58.72 3 104,565 18.05 1 85,138 14.69 — 20,494 3.54 — 28,983 5.00 —
Formosa 183,412 79.75 3 43,694 19.00 — — — — — — — 2,875 1.25 —
Jujuy 152,726 55.19 2 71,168 25.72 1 11,408 4.12 — 5,684 2.05 — 35,766 12.92 —
La Pampa 88,347 56.92 1 53,104 34.21 1 — — — 8,131 5.24 — 5,635 3.63 —
La Rioja 55,716 38.33 1 35,219 24.23 1 — — — — — — 54,434 37.45 1
Mendoza 384,892 46.76 3 200,238 24.33 1 50,595 6.15 — 139,732 16.98 1 47,665 5.79 —
Misiones 346,880 68.40 4 75,160 14.82 — 26,168 5.16 — 14,530 2.86 — 44,422 8.76 —
Neuquén 90,475 33.18 1 25,893 9.50 — 32,152 11.79 — — — — 124,127 45.53 1
Río Negro 202,873 70.10 3 34,788 12.02 — 33,527 11.58 — — — — 18,215 6.29 —
Salta 332,671 56.51 3 103,162 17.52 1 27,042 4.59 — 14,684 2.49 — 111,164 18.88 —
San Juan 216,015 69.29 3 22,290 7.15 — — — — 60,240 19.32 — 13,217 4.24 —
San Luis 59,725 29.46 — 22,429 11.06 — — — — 120,570 59.47 2 — — —
Santa Cruz 74,846 65.41 2 22,516 19.68 — 3,474 3.04 — — — — 13,597 11.88 —
Santa Fe 725,350 41.41 5 115,440 6.59 — 623,357 35.59 5 77,798 4.44 — 209,528 11.96 —
Santiago del Estero 338,853 85.90 4 29,536 7.49 — 13,625 3.45 — — — — 12,481 3.16 —
Tierra del Fuego 33,647 55.01 2 4,880 7.98 — — — — — — — 22,643 37.02 1
Tucumán 462,231 60.97 4 124,731 16.45 1 80,474 10.61 — 36,787 4.85 — 53,967 7.12 —
Total 10,757,804 52.22 85 2,790,964 13.55 16 2,780,984 13.50 14 1,278,617 6.21 6 2,990,704 14.52 9

Senate

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Eight districts (Buenos Aires Province, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis and Santa Cruz) also elected three National Senators each (two for the most voted party or coalition, one for the second most voted party or coalition), to renew a third of the upper house.[43]

The opposition fared better in the Senate, which remained nearly unchanged; the upper house would continue divided between the FpV with a majority of 40 seats (out of 72), and the UCR (around 16) and others with the remainder.[40][41] The departure of Vice President Julio Cobos of the UCR (distanced politically from the President since 2008) deprived the opposition of a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.[41]

Party or allianceVotes%Seats
Won
Front for VictoryFront for Victory5,483,11054.7313
Front for the Renewal of Concord256,1372.562
Total5,739,24757.2815
Union for Social DevelopmentUnion for Social Development966,7179.651
Radical Civic Union231,5422.312
Total1,198,25911.963
Broad Progressive FrontBroad Progressive Front1,103,92211.021
Socialist Party29,5640.300
Total1,133,48611.311
Federal CommitmentFederal Commitment686,7406.853
Partido Es Posible [es]5,6810.060
Total692,4216.913
Popular FrontPopular Front652,2806.510
Popular Union3,2390.030
Fortress Party1,4560.010
Federal Republican Agreement1,4410.010
Total658,4166.570
Workers' Left FrontWorkers' Left Front285,4892.850
Workers' Party3,0260.030
Total288,5152.880
Civic Coalition ARI196,0331.960
Rioja Popular Front56,4090.562
Jujuy First Front24,1270.240
Republican Proposal11,5270.120
Renewal Crusade10,8730.110
Citizen Dignity7,4500.070
South Encounter2,1510.020
Total10,018,914100.0024
Valid votes10,018,91490.24
Invalid votes70,4030.63
Blank votes1,013,3909.13
Total votes11,102,707100.00
Registered voters/turnout13,581,95181.75
Source: DINE,[44] Ministry of the Interior[39]

Results by province

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Province FPV UDESO FAP CF Others
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Buenos Aires 4,639,554 56.78 2 880,892 10.78 — 1,092,503 13.37 1 484,318 5.93 — 1,073,189 13.13 —
Formosa 179,985 78.39 2 46,732 20.35 1 — — — — — — 2,897 1.26 —
Jujuy 157,364 53.43 2 85,825 29.14 1 11,419 3.88 — 5,681 1.93 — 34,238 11.62 —
La Rioja 53,865 33.82 1 37,477 23.53 — — — — — — — 67,936 42.65 2
Misiones 354,906 68.98 3 75,600 14.69 — 25,958 5.05 — 14,542 2.83 — 43,496 8.45 —
San Juan 214,776 66.84 2 22,450 6.99 — — — — 60,238 18.75 1 23,871 7.43 —
San Luis 60,516 28.78 1 22,130 10.52 — — — — 127,642 60.70 2 — — —
Santa Cruz 78,281 65.83 2 27,153 22.83 1 3,606 3.03 — — — — 9,874 8.30 —
Total 5,739,247 57.28 15 1,198,259 11.96 3 1,133,486 11.31 1 692,421 6.91 3 1,255,501 12.53 2

Provincial

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Main article: 2011 Argentine provincial elections

All but two of the 23 provinces will also elect governors and provincial legislative officials on staggered dates through the year, and nine of them will hold elections on the same day as the General Elections.[45] There will be also simultaneous local elections, whereby a number of Municipalities elect municipal legislative officials (concejales), and in some cases also a mayor (or equivalent).[46]

Some of the most high-profile gubernatorial races include that of Governor of Buenos Aires Province (the nation's largest), where Governor Daniel Scioli of the FpV defeated Federal Peronist Deputy Francisco de Narváez,[47] and in Santa Fe Province, where the incumbent Socialist Governor, Hermes Binner, would run for president.[48] Socialist nominee Antonio Bonfatti was elected to succeed him.[49] The Mayor of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri faced Senator Daniel Filmus of the FpV and film-maker Fernando Solanas of Proyecto Sur.[30] He was overwhelmingly re-elected in a runoff vote held on 31 July.[50]

Results throughout the year and in the general election handed candidates for the FpV or its allies the governor's house in every province except San Luis (won by Federal Commitment) and Santa Fe (won by the Socialist Party).[47]

References

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  1. ^ (in Spanish) Ley de Democratización de la Representación Política, la Transparencia y la Equidad Electoral
  2. ^ "Sabbatella y el FPV tendrán una misma lista de diputados en la Provincia". M24 Digital. Archived from the original on 18 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Con más críticas, Carrió se aleja del Acuerdo Cívico". La Nación.
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