2019 Buenos Aires provincial election
General elections were held in Buenos Aires Province on 27 October 2019, alongside national elections. The governor and vice governor, as well as half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate were renewed. In addition, a number of municipal offices were elected as well.[1]
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| Turnout | 10,548,393 (80.00%) 0.48 pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the seats won by each party in each partido. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The candidatures were defined in the open, simultaneous, and mandatory primaries (PASO), which took place on 11 August 2019. Lists that won at least 1.5% of the votes (including blanks) qualified to the general election.[2]
The election resulted in the defeat of incumbent governor María Eugenia Vidal (PRO) to former finance minister and then-congressman Axel Kicillof, of the Frente de Todos (FDT). This accompanied the national trend, in which incumbent president Mauricio Macri, of PRO, lost to the FDT's Alberto Fernández.[3] Vidal is the first governor in the province's history to seek re-election and lose,[4] while Kicillof became the eighth governor (sixth peronist) since the return of democracy in 1983. It was the most polarized election since 1999, with the two most voted candidates summing 90.68% of the votes.[5][6]
Results
Primaries
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frente de Todos | Axel Kicillof | Verónica Magario | 4,921,536 | 49.44 | |
| Juntos por el Cambio | María Eugenia Vidal | Daniel Salvador | 3,223,460 | 32.38 | |
| Federal Consensus | Eduardo Bucca | Miguel Saredi | 575,202 | 5.78 | |
| Workers' Left Front – Unity | Christian Castillo | Mercedes Trimachi | 321,876 | 3.23 | |
| NOS Front | Gustavo R. Álvarez | Sandra M. Dell'Aquila | 168,223 | 1.69 | |
| Movement of Socialist Advance | Martín González Bayón | Marina Alonso | 67,319 | 0.68 | |
| Patriotic Front | Leonardo Bariani | Ana Graziano | 21,434 | 0.22 | |
| Popular Dignity Party | Santiago Cuneo | Claudio Morgado | 21,491 | 0.22 | |
| Democratic Organization Movement | María Macaione | Marcelo Ferrara | 11,104 | 0.11 | |
| Blank votes | 623,049 | 6.26 | |||
| Invalid votes | 66,813 | – | |||
| Total | 10,021,507 | 100 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 13,185,036 | 76.35 | |||
| Source: Poder Judicial de la Nación | |||||
Governor and Vice Governor
| Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axel Kicillof | Verónica Magario | Everyone's Front | 5,274,511 | 52.40 | |
| María Eugenia Vidal | Daniel Salvador | Together for Change | 3,852,624 | 38.28 | |
| Eduardo Bucca | Miguel Saredi | Federal Consensus | 513,850 | 5.11 | |
| Christian Castillo | Mercedes Trimarchi | Left and Worker's Front-Unity | 282,830 | 2.81 | |
| Gustavo Ricardo Álvarez | Sandra María Dell'Aquila | NOS Front | 141,249 | 1.40 | |
| Total | 10,065,064 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 10,065,064 | 95.42 | |||
| Invalid votes | 64,237 | 0.61 | |||
| Blank votes | 419,092 | 3.97 | |||
| Total votes | 10,548,393 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 13,185,036 | 80.00 | |||
| Source: [7] | |||||
Chamber of Deputies
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not up | Won | Total | ||||
| Frente de Todos | 2,475,108 | 49.36 | 22 | 23 | 45 | |
| Juntos por el Cambio | 2,036,188 | 40.61 | 18 | 22 | 40 | |
| Federal Consensus | 274,213 | 5.47 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Workers' Left Front – Unity | 159,833 | 3.19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| NOS Front | 69,059 | 1.38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blank/invalid votes | 306,233 | – | – | – | – | |
| Total | 5,320,634 | 100 | 46 | 46 | 92 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,647,397 | 80.04 | ||||
| Source: Resultados | ||||||
Senate
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not up | Won | Total | ||||
| Frente de Todos | 2,717,387 | 55.06 | 7 | 13 | 20 | |
| Juntos por el Cambio | 1,711,369 | 34.67 | 16 | 10 | 26 | |
| Federal Consensus | 261,365 | 5.30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Workers' Left Front – Unity | 170,616 | 3.46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| NOS Front | 75,009 | 1.52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blank/invalid votes | 292,013 | – | – | – | – | |
| Total | 5,227,759 | 100 | 23 | 23 | 46 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,537,639 | 79.96 | ||||
| Source: Resultados | ||||||
References
- "Mapa: qué se elige en las provincias en 2019". El Cronista (in Spanish). 5 December 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- "Resultados de las PASO 2019: Axel Kicillof le ganó a María Eugenia Vidal por casi 17% en la provincia de Buenos Aires". Clarín (in Spanish). 11 August 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- Villafañe, Leonardo (27 October 2019). "Elecciones 2019: Kicillof le ganó a Vidal y será el nuevo gobernador de Buenos Aires". El Cronista (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- Cottet, Facundo (14 June 2020). ""Vidal es la primera gobernadora de la historia que no consigue la reelección"". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- "Amplia victoria de Kicillof en Provincia: venció a Vidal y es electo gobernador". CNN en Español (in Spanish). 27 October 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- González, Guillermo Javier (28 October 2019). "Argentina: victoria de todos, polarización de muchos". CELAG (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 December 2021.
- "ELECCIONES 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2019 Escrutinio Definitivo - Gobernador" (PDF). Junta Electoral de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2021.