Argentine legislative election, 2013

Argentine Deputies election, 2013

27 October 2013

127 of 257 seats to the Chamber of Deputies 129 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Julián Domínguez Ricardo Gil Lavedra Sergio Massa Party FPV-PJ FPCyS FR-PJ Leader since 2011 2010 2013 Leader's seat Buenos Aires Province City of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Province Seats before 132 at stake: 48 65 at stake: 40 39 at stake: 28 Seats won 48 36 23 Seats after 132 61 34 Seat change 4 5 Percentage 33.3% 24.7% 24.8%

Chamber of Deputies Majority Leader before election Julián Domínguez FPV-PJ Chamber of Deputies Majority Leader Julián Domínguez FPV-PJ

Argentine Senate election, 2013

27 October 2013

24 of 72 seats to the Senate 37 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Miguel Ángel Pichetto Luis Petcoff Naidenoff Gabriela Michetti Party FPV-PJ FPCyS PRO Leader since 2001 2011 2013 Leader's seat Río Negro Formosa City of Buenos Aires Seats before 40 at stake: 16 21 at stake: 5 none Seats won 15 3 3 Seats after 39 21 3 Seat change 1 2 3 Percentage 29.4% 22.7% 17.2%

Senate Majority Leader before election Miguel Ángel Pichetto FPV-PJ Senate Majority Leader Miguel Ángel Pichetto FPV-PJ

Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2013. Open primary elections (PASO) were previously held on 11 August 2013 to determine eligible party lists for the general election. As in 2011 – when such primaries were held for the first time – each party list had to reach a 1.5% threshold at the provincial level in order to proceed to the 27 October polls.^[1]

The elections renewed half of the members of the Chamber of Deputies for the period 2013–2017 and a third of the members of the Senate for the period 2013–2019.^[2] Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) elections were held in every district; Senate elections were, in turn, held in the provinces of Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tierra del Fuego, as well as in the City of Buenos Aires.^[3] Corrientes Province held the only elections for governor in 2013, doing so on 15 September.^[4]

These elections included two significant novelties. Following the enactment of a law to that effect in 2012, voluntary suffrage was extended to voters age 16 and 17, which increased eligible voters by 4.5% or about 1.2 million;^[5] of this total, approximately 600,000 registered to vote.^[6] Argentine voters in 2013 also parted with the traditional election-day seal stamped on National Identity Documents (DNI) by election officials, receiving instead a ballot stub with a bar code and serial number.^[7]

Background

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was reelected in 2011, and the Kirchnerist Front for Victory (FpV) rode her coattails in gubernatorial and congressional races alike. Following the elections, however, foreign exchange controls, austerity measures, persistent inflation, and downturns in Brazil, Europe, and other important trade partners, resulted in a sudden downturn and a consequent erosion of the president's popularity.^[8] A series of cacerolazos organized by opponents of the government took place during 2012 and 2013 (13S, 8N, 18A, and 8A).

The recession was shorter and shallower than much of the local media had predicted, however;^[9] and while the FpV entered the 2013 campaign season with sounder footing on pocketbook issues,^[10] they were dogged by ongoing speculation that its caucus sought a two-thirds majority in the Lower House with the goal of amending the Constitution to allow the president to seek a third term.^[11] A survey conducted in June 2013 by the consulting firm CEIS gave the Front for Victory (the majority party in Congress, as well as the party in power since 2003) 30.3% in the City of Buenos Aires and 39.7% in the Province of Buenos Aires (the largest electoral district). The right-wing PRO polled at 23.4% and 16.7%, respectively; the Federal Peronists and other PJ party lists opposed to Kirchnerism, 10.3% and 16.7%; the centrist Civic Coalition, 9.2% and 5.0%; and the center-left UCR, 7.4% and 8.0%.^[12]

The FpV, moreover, had the advantage of having relatively few Lower House seats at stake in 2013. Congressmen in Argentina serve four-year terms, and gains for the various opposition parties in 2009 meant that 2013 put a disproportionate number of their Lower House seats at stake: while the FpV contested 38 of its 116 Lower House seats, a full 76 of 118 opposition seats were at stake this year (a further 13 seats of the 23 belonging to minor parties allied with the FpV were at stake).^[13]

Primaries

Sergio Massa (5th from right) caps a campaign rally with his fellow Renewal Front candidates. Their party list won in Buenos Aires Province, the nation's largest. The balance of power in Congress was largely unchanged, however, and the Front for Victory maintained their working majority in both houses.

The PASO primaries were held on Sunday, 11 August, amid high turnout consistent with recent past elections and estimated by Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo at over 70%.^[14]

The Province of Buenos Aires, the largest electoral district and home to 3 out of 8 Argentines, dominated campaign news much as it has in every mid-term election in recent years. As the party list filing deadline on 22 June drew near, the spotlight focused on the popular mayor of Tigre, Sergio Massa. Massa had been elected mayor on the FpV slate, and had served in a number of high-ranking posts in the administrations of both Cristina Kirchner and her predecessor and husband, the late Néstor Kirchner. His relationship with the Kirchners had been a difficult one, however, and though polling gave him better prospects running for Congress under the FpV party list than on a separate slate,^[15] Massa ultimately opted to form his own Frente Renovador (Renewal Front) ticket with the support of the 'Group of 8' Buenos Aires Province Mayors and others, notably former Argentine Industrial Union president José Ignacio de Mendiguren (an ally of Kirchnerism).^[16][17]

Massa's decision to run as an opponent deprived the FpV of a key ally and he moved quickly to consolidate the center-right vote in Buenos Aires Province by obtaining the endorsement of the PRO (which ran on the Renewal Front list headed by Massa rather than on its own).^[18] Federal Peronist Congressman Francisco de Narváez, who would be in direct competition with the Renewal Front for the province's large center-right Peronist vote, believed that the charismatic Massa was in reality a "trojan horse" for the FpV; Renewal Front congressmen, per his reasoning, would run against Kirchnerism only to vote with them once elected to Congress.^[19] The Renewal Front, in any case, ultimately defeated the FpV list headed by Lomas de Zamora Mayor Martín Insaurralde by about 35% to 30%, with the Progressive, Civic and Social Front (FPCyS) list headed by Congressmen Margarita Stolbizer and Ricardo Alfonsín and Congressman de Narváez's Front for Union and Work list receiving about 11% each;^[3][20] were this result to be mirrored in October, de Narváez would lose four of eight congressmen he led in 2009 on the successful Unión/PRO list.^[21]

The centrist Civic Coalition ARI, for its part, arguably achieved its most significant political victory in four years when Congressman Alfonso Prat-Gay forged the Civic Coalition-led Juntos UNEN (Together They Unite) alliance with UCR Congressional caucus leader Ricardo Gil Lavedra, leftist Proyecto Sur leader Pino Solanas, former Civic Coalition head Elisa Carrió (who left the CC in 2012 following a poor showing in the 2011 presidential race), and Victoria Donda of the leftist Freemen of the South Movement in January 2013. Prat-Gay was nominated as the lead UNEN candidate for a seat in the Argentine Senate for the City of Buenos Aires (where the alliance was strongest), and Gil Lavedra the lead UNEN candidate for the Lower House; former Economy Minister Martín Lousteau (who fell out with President Fernández de Kirchner after his 2008 dismissal) joined Gil Lavedra and Carrió on the UNEN Lower House list for the city.^[22]

The City of Buenos Aires, ruled since 2007 by a PRO mayor, handed the rightist PRO an upset by giving UNEN standard-bearers Prat-Gay and Solanas the two Senate seats (out of three) accorded to the winning list in each district, edging out former Vice-Mayor Gabriela Michetti (who would obtain the third seat) and current City Environment Minister Diego Santilli, and costing FpV Senator Daniel Filmus his own seat.^[23] The PRO party list for the city's delegation to the Lower House, headed by Rabbi Sergio Bergman (a member of the Buenos Aires City Legislature) and Bank of the City of Buenos Aires director Federico Sturzenegger, was likewise defeated by the UNEN list headed by Congressmen Gil Lavedra and Carrió.^[23][24] The FpV list led by Legislator Juan Cabandié, came in third.^[3]

Córdoba Province, where Governor José Manuel de la Sota broke with the president after being elected with her endorsement, is where the acrimony between these Peronist factions was probably most acute.^[25][26] De la Sota fielded former Governor Juan Schiaretti as the head of his Lower House party list. Their Union for Córdoba list bested the UCR list headed by Congressman Oscar Aguad, the PRO list headed by former football referee Héctor Baldassi, the FpV list headed by former National University of Córdoba rector Carina Scotto, and the "It's Possible" list headed by former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo with the support of neighboring San Luis Province Senator Alberto Rodríguez Saá (a Federal Peronist).^[27][28] Cavallo, who ran as a conservative and lost much of his political base as economy minister during the 2001 crisis, failed to reach the requisite 1.5% threshold to advance to the 27 October general election.^[29]

Santa Fe Province voted in the PASO election amid mourning for the 15 or more fatal victims claimed by the Rosario gas explosion on 6 August.^[30] Voters there gave the Progressive, Civic and Social Front list headed by former Governor Hermes Binner a victory over the PRO list headed by comedian Miguel del Sel and the FpV list headed by former Governor Jorge Obeid; the Socialist Party, to which Binner and the current governor, Antonio Bonfatti, belongs, is strongest in this province.^[31]

Mendoza Province gave the UCR list headed by former Governor and Vice President Julio Cobos a victory over the FpV list headed by Guaymallén Department Mayor Alejandro Abraham. Cobos is probably best remembered for his surprise, tie-breaking vote in 2008 against a bill raising oilseed export taxes; though not an oilseed-producing province, conservative politics have historically been strong in Mendoza, and Cobos' unexpected axing of the measure was widely supported in his province.^[32]

The PASO primaries thus gave congressional candidates on the Front for Victory (FpV) list a much reduced share of the popular vote (around 30%, compared to 57% in 2011), and the FpV led in only 10 of 23 provinces.^[3][33] They retained a plurality of the vote, however, and by virtue of having only 37 Lower House seats at stake, will likely increase their parliamentary majority by two.^[21] The UCR and FPCyS together totaled around 24%,^[3] with the latter likely losing around 5 seats due to the large number of seats at stake.^[33] The FpV fared better in most Senate races, losing only in the City of Buenos Aires while winning in Chaco, Entre Ríos, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Tierra del Fuego Provinces; like in the Lower House races, their popular vote for Senate races fell sharply (from 54% to 34%), but their 8% advantage over the UCR and FPCyS combined and their improved showing in Tierra del Fuego compensated their loss of support elsewhere.^[3] The Neuquén People's Movement that has dominated politics in Neuquén Province since the 1960s and caucuses with the FpV in Congress, won in a landslide.^[3]

Senate

 Summary of the 11 August 2013 open, simultaneous and obligatory primary elections (PASO) results for the Argentine Senate (8 provinces)

Parties		Votes	%
	Kirchnerists and allies	1,746,625	33.96
	Radical Civic Union (UCR), Socialist Party and allies	1,356,419	26.37
	Republican Proposal (PRO) and allies	779,404	15.16
	Others (incl. Neuquén People's Movement)	494,924	9.62
	Left-wing (incl. Workers' Party)	320,208	6.23
	Dissident Peronists	213,676	4.15
	Against all
Total valid votes			100.00
Invalid votes
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Chamber of Deputies

 Summary of the 11 August 2013 open, simultaneous and obligatory primary elections (PASO) results for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Parties		Votes	%
	Kirchnerists and allies	6,799,793	29.65
	Dissident Peronists (incl. Renewal Front)	5,903,016	25.74
	Radical Civic Union (UCR), Socialist Party and allies	5,460,861	23.81
	Republican Proposal (PRO) and allies	1.525.995	6.65
	Left-wing (Workers' Left Front, Self-determination and Freedom etc.)	1,243,252	5.42
	Others (incl. Neuquén People's Movement)	802,019	3.5
	Against all
Total valid votes			100.00
Invalid votes
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Results

The second and final round, held on 27 October, closely mirrored the 11 August results. The Renewal Front (center/center-right Peronists) received a plurality of votes in Buenos Aires Province (the nation's largest),^[34] while the Front for Victory (left-wing Peronists) and allies maintained their majority in both houses of Congress with minimal changes in the party composition of either chamber.^[35] Turnout was high, and was estimated to have reached 76%.^[35]

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, serving a second presidency, is constitutionally barred from standing in the 2015 election, and the Front for Victory lacks the special two-thirds majority needed for a constitutional amendment. The support for Front for Victory dropped from 54% in 2011 to 33% in 2013. The government faces increasing popular discontent, and the vice-president Amado Boudou (currently acting as president while Fernández de Kirchner recuperates after surgery) is under investigation for the so-called Boudougate. Analysts for the BBC consider the poll results suggest Sergio Massa, Mauricio Macri and Daniel Scioli are likely candidates for the presidency in 2015.^[36]

Senate

Party	Votes	%	Seats
Front for Victory	1,608,666	32.13	11
Republican Proposal	712,395	14.23	2
UNEN	502,554	10.04	1
Civic Front for Santiago	218,965	4.37	2
Radical Civic Union	212,322	4.24	0
Union for Chaco	209,212	4.18	1
Union for Entre Rios	199,934	3.99	1
Workers' Party	158,539	3.17	0
Salteño People's Front	150,745	3.01	1
We are all Salta	140,329	2.80	0
Neuquén People's Movement	139,366	2.78	2
People's Front	129,454	2.59	1
Workers' Left Front	117,148	2.34	0
Progressive Front	90,283	1.80	1
Progressive, Civic and Social Front	63,824	1.27	0
People's Way	46,638	0.93	0
Self-determination and Freedom	46,608	0.93	0
Broad Progressive Front	41,605	0.83	0
Salta Renewal Party	41,289	0.82	0
Neuquino Civic Compromise	38,568	0.77	0
New Left	22,516	0.45	0
Freemen of the South Movement	16,894	0.34	0
People's Union	15,759	0.31	0
Fueguino People's Movement	15,555	0.31	1
Left for a Socialist Option	12,292	0.25	0
Union of Neuquinos	11,244	0.22	0
People's Party	10,448	0.21	0
South Progressive Front	10,139	0.20	0
Federal Union	9,589	0.19	0
Others	14,243	0.28	0
Invalid/blank votes	299,899	–	–
Total	5,307,022	100	24
Registered voters/turnout	6,908,999	76.81	–
Source: Government of Argentina

Chamber of Deputies

Party	Votes	%	Seats
			Won	Total
Front for Victory	6,648,451	29.43	40
Renewal Front	3,776,898	16.72	16
Progressive, Civic and Social Front	1,990,689	8.81	9
Radical Civic Union	1,350,940	5.98	8
Workers' Left Front	950,600	4.21	2	3
Union Pro	901,986	3.99	6
UNEN	581,096	2.57	5
Union for Córdoba	515,848	2.28	3	3
Union Pro Santa Fe Federal	504,681	2.23	3
United for Freedom and Work	469,336	2.08	2	3
Civic Front for Santiago	336,065	1.49	3
Social and Civic Agreement	304,521	1.35	2
Encuentro por Corrientes	260,770	1.15	2
Federal Commitment	255,918	1.13	3
Front for the Renewal of Concord	251,617	1.11	2
Justicialist Party	223,243	0.99	2
Union for Chaco	213,128	0.94	1
Workers' Party	204,057	0.90	1
Union for Entre Rios	180,286	0.80	1
Chubut Action Party	151,445	0.67	2
Union con Fe	137,216	0.61	0
Neuquén People's Movement	132,217	0.59	2	3
Salta People's Front	127,179	0.56	1
Front of Jujuy	124,421	0.55	2
We are all Salta	112,262	0.50	0
Vecinalismo Independiente	89,413	0.40	0
Formosan Broad Front	89,164	0.39	1
Riojan Civic Front	84,902	0.38	1
United Front	84,811	0.38	0
Progressive Front	82,960	0.37	0
Civic and Social Front	77,886	0.34	2
Republican Force	72,110	0.32	0
FREPAM	69,422	0.31	1
Self-determination and Freedom	68,246	0.30	0
Civic Coalition	67,908	0.30	0
Union para Vivir Mejor	66,915	0.30	2
New Left	66,661	0.30	0
People's Change	57,150	0.25	0
Union PD-Pro	51,931	0.23	0
Victory Party	47,211	0.21	0
Broad Progressive Front	44,987	0.20	0
Renewal Crusade	42,629	0.19	0
Encuentro Vecinal Córdoba	41,719	0.18	0
People's Way	41,194	0.18	0
Federal Proposal Front	38,847	0.17	1
Neuquino Civic Commitment	37,927	0.17	0
Salta Renewal Party	37,275	0.17	0
Third Position Front	36,509	0.16	0
Santafesino 100%	34,309	0.15	0
People's Alternative	27,297	0.12	0
Unite!	27,118	0.12	0
Socialist Party	24,846	0.11	0
Workers' Socialist Movement	24,800	0.11	0
Pro Propuesta Republicana	23,795	0.11	0
Independent Justice and Dignity Movement	23,386	0.10	0
Left for a Socialist Option	22,932	0.10	0
FAP–CC–ARI	20,374	0.09	0
Freemen of the South Movement	18,302	0.08	0
Plural Front	16,754	0.07	0
Jujuy First Front	16,047	0.07	0
People's Solidarity Movement	15,734	0.07	1
People's Union	15,242	0.07	0
Dignified Citizens' Movement	15,202	0.07	0
Union Pro Front	14,684	0.07	0
Social Pole	13,072	0.06	0
Fueguino People's Movement	12,716	0.06	0
Laborista de la Independencia	12,583	0.06	0
Union de los Neuquinos	11,983	0.05	0
South Progressive Front	10,673	0.05	0
Independent Democratic	10,536	0.05	0
Memoria y Movilizacion Social	9,532	0.04	0
New People	9,174	0.04	0
Humanist Party	8,240	0.04	0
Partido Fe	8,171	0.04	0
Federal Union	7,655	0.03	0
People's Party	7,026	0.03	0
New Federal Pact Front	5,336	0.02	0
People's Front	5,314	0.02	0
Party for a United People	5,053	0.02	0
Socialist Workers' Party	5,031	0.02	0
Democratic Space For Victory	2,846	0.01	0
Gen	1,817	0.01	0
Invalid/blank votes	1,050,889	–	–	–
Total	23,641,116	100	127	257
Registered voters/turnout	30,635,464	77.17	–	–
Source: Government of Argentina

By province

Buenos Aires Province

Deputies^[37]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Renewal Front (dissident Peronists)	Sergio Massa	3,776,898	43.92	16
	Front for Victory	Martín Insaurralde	2,767,694	32.18	12
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Margarita Stolbizer	1,015,430	11.80	4
	United for Liberty and Labour (dissident Peronists)	Francisco de Narváez	469,336	5.46	2
	Workers' Left Front	Néstor Pitrola	433,269	5.04	1
	Union with Faith (dissident Peronists)	Gerónimo Venegas	137,216	1.60	–
	Against all		273,703	3.06	–
Total valid votes				100.00	35
Invalid votes			80,326	0.90	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

City of Buenos Aires

Senate^[38]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Union Pro	Gabriela Michetti	712,395	39.25	2
	UNEN	Fernando Pino Solanas	502,554	27.69	1
	Front for Victory	Daniel Filmus	421,911	23.24	–
	Workers' Left Front	Claudio Dellacarbonara	85,142	4.69	–
	Popular Path	Claudio Lonzano	46,638	2.56	–
	Self-determination and Freedom	Sergio Sallustio	46,608	2.57	–
	Against all		102,977	5.31	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			18.301	0.94	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[39]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Union Pro	Sergio Bergman	621,167	34.46	5
	UNEN	Elisa Carrió	581,096	32.23	5
	Front for Victory	Juan Cabandié	389,128	21.59	3
	Workers' Left Front	Jorge Altamira	101,862	5.65	–
	Self-determination and Freedom	Luis Zamora	68,246	3.79	–
	Popular Path	Itai Hagman	41,194	2.28	–
	Against all		111,983	5.79	–
Total valid votes				100.00	13
Invalid votes			18,279	0.95	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Catamarca

Deputies^[40]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Eduardo Brizuela del Moral	77,886	40.01	2
	Front for Victory	Néstor Tomássi	75,318	38.69	1
	Third Position Front	Luis Barrionuevo	36,509	18.75	-
	Workers' Party	Ariel Antonio López	4,960	2.55	-
	Against all		10,300	4.97	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			2,141	1.03	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Chaco

Senate^[41]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Eduardo Alberto Aguilar	363,106	60.60	2
	Union for Chaco	Ángel Rozas	209,212	34.92	1
	Workers' Party	Aldo Gabriel García	26,860	4.48	–
	Against all		36,374	5.67	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			337	0.06	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[42]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Juan Manuel Pedrini	349,131	59.31	3
	Union for Chaco	Miguel Tejedor	213,128	36.21	1
	Workers' Party	Jorge Alberto Esquivel	26,358	4.48	-
	Against all		43,177	6.78	–
Total valid votes				100.00	4
Invalid votes			4,625	0.73	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Chubut

Deputies^[43]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Chubutense Action Party	Mario Das Neves	151,445	52.67	2
	Front for Victory	Norberto Yauhar	66,830	23.24	-
	Radical Civic Union	Eduardo Conde	36.617	12.73	-
	Senior Social Movement Pole Position Of The People	Oscar Petersen	13.072	4.55	-
	Socialist Movement Of Workers	Susana Muñoz	12.706	4.42	-
	Civic Coalition	Caelos Reinoso	6.876	2.39	-
	Against all		4,597	1.53	–
Total valid votes				100.00	2
Invalid votes			8,563	2.85	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Córdoba

Deputies^[44]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Union for Córdoba (dissident Peronists)	Juan Schiaretti	515,848	26.54	3
	Radical Civic Union	Oscar Aguad	440,452	22.66	3
	Front for Victory	Carolina Scotto	296,449	15.25	2
	Unión Pro	Héctor Baldassi	280,819	14.45	1
	Workers' Left Front	Liliana Olivero	145,238	7.48	–
	Independent Localism (Kircherist allies)	Olga Riutort	89,413	4.60	–
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Ernesto Martinez	72,414	3.73	–
	Broad Progressive Front–Civic Coalition ARI	Roberto Cucui	61,032	3.14	–
	Local Encounter Córdoba	María Rosa Marcone	41.719	2.15	–
	Against all		24,404	1.22	–
Total valid votes				100.00	9
Invalid votes			35,520	1.77	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Corrientes

Deputies^[45]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Meeting for Corrientes	Gustavo Adolfo Valdés	260,770	46.98	2
	Front for Victory	Carlos Rubín	237,151	42.72	1
	Popular Change	Eugenio Artaza	57,150	10.30	-
	Against all		8,310	1.45	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			9,900	1.73	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Entre Ríos

Senate^[46]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Pedro Guastavino	359,522	46.24	2
	Union for Entre Ríos (PRO allies)	Alfredo De Ángeli	199,934	25.70	1
	Radical Civic Union	Atilio Benedetti	154,014	19.81	–
	Broad Progressive Front	Lisandro Viale	41,605	5.35	–
	New Left	Gabriel Geist	22.516	2.90	–
	Against all		11,250	1,40	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			11,839	1,48	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[47]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	José Eduardo Lauritto	358,626	46.61	3
	Union for Entre Ríos Alliance	María Cristina Cremer de Busti	180,286	23.43	1
	Radical Civic Union	Jorge Marcelo D Agostino	162,141	21.06	1
	Broad Progressive Front	Américo Schvartzman	44,987	5.85	-
	New Left	Luis Meiners	23.428	3.05	–
	Against all		17,722	2.22	–
Total valid votes				100.00	5
Invalid votes			10,915	1.37	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Formosa

Deputies^[48]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Juan Carlos Díaz Roig	146,270	60,11	1
	Formoseño Broad Front	Ricardo Buryaile	89,164	36.65	1
	Workers' Party	Fabián Servin	7,887	3.24	-
	Against all		7,891	3.10	–
Total valid votes				100.00	2
Invalid votes			2,844	1.12	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Jujuy

Deputies^[49]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Jujeño Front	Mario Fiad	124,421	40.15	2
	Front for Victory	Héctor Tentor	120,460	38.87	1
	Workers' Left Front	Alejandro Vilca	22,272	7.19	-
	Front First Jujuy	Elva Isolda Calsina	16,047	5.18	-
	Front Union Pro	Dago Alberto Pubzolu	14,684	4.74	-
	New Left	Betina Rivero	6.943	2.24	–
	Party for a People United	Luciana Santillan	5,053	1.63	-
	Against all		34,472	9.84	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			5,286	1.51	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

La Pampa

Deputies^[50]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Justicialist Party	Gustavo Fernández Mendía	70,866	35.16	1
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Francisco Torroba	69,422	34.44	1
	Federal Proposal Front	Carlos Mac Allister	38,847	19.26	1
	New People (dissident Peronists)	Darío Omar Hernández	9,174	4.55	-
	Humanist Party	Roberto Costabel	8,240	4.09	-
	Socialist Workers Party	Claudia Lupardo	5,031	2.05	-
	Against all		2,225	1.07	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			4,105	1.97	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

La Rioja

Deputies^[51]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Teresita Madera	85,898	47.05	1
	Riojana Civic Force	Julio César Martínez	84,902	46.50	1
	New Federal Pact Front	Jorge Yoma	5,336	2.92	–
	Left for a Socialist Option	Horacio Pavon	4,023	2.20	–
	Federal Compromise (dissident Peronists)	Carlos Santander	2,424	1.33	–
	Against all		8,183	4.20	–
Total valid votes				100.00	2
Invalid votes			3,138	1.61	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Mendoza

Deputies^[52]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Radical Civic Union	Julio Cobos	480,658	47.72	3
	Front for Victory	Alejandro Abraham	273,209	27.13	1
	Workers' Left Front	Nicolás del Caño	141,284	14.03	1
	Union PD–Pro	Luis Rosales	51,931	5.16	–
	Federal Commitment (dissident Peronists)	Daniel Cassia	39,714	3.94	–
	Broad Progressive Front–Civic Coalition ARI	Alberto Montbrun	20,374	2.02	–
	Against all		19,663	1.88	–
Total valid votes				100.00	5
Invalid votes			16,730	1.60	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Misiones

Deputies^[53]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Renewal Front of the Concordance	Alex Ziegler	251,617	43.30	2
	Radical Civic Union	Luis Mario Pastori	155,031	26.68	1
	United Front	Ramón Puerta	84,811	14.58	–
	Front for Victory	Juan Carlos Ríos	64,840	11.16	–
	Socialist Party	Norma Ferndandez Flores	24,846	4.28	–
	Against all		9,271	1.55	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			8,932	1.49	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Neuquén

Senate^[54]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Neuquén People's Movement	Guillermo Juan Pereyra	139,366	41.92	2
	Front for Victory	Marcelo Fuentes	68,461	20.59	1
	Neuquén Civic Commitment	Marcelo Inaudi	38,568	11.60	–
	Workers' Left Front	Patricia Jure	32,006	9,63	–
	Freemen of the South Movement	Eduardo Benitez	16,894	5.08	–
	Popular Union (dissident Peronists)	Gabriel Romero	15,759	4.74	–
	Union of the Neuquenians	Andrea Rosso	11,244	3.38	–
	Southern Progressive Front	Priscila Otton	10.139	3.06	–
	Against all		9,438	2,67	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			10.522	2,98	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[55]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Neuquén People's Movement	María Inés Villar Molina	132,217	40.20	2
	Front for Victory	Nanci María Agustina Parrilli	69,956	21.27	1
	Neuquén Civic Commitment	Rubén Etcheverry	37,927	11.53	–
	Workers' Left Front	Andrés Blanco	32,599	9,91	–
	Freemen of the South Movement	Paula Sanchez	18,302	5.56	–
	Popular Union (dissident Peronists)	Graciela Bourdieu	15,242	4.63	–
	Union of the Neuquenians	Francisco Baggio	11,983	3.64	–
	Southern Progressive Front	Maria Barragan	10.673	3.26	–
	Against all		12,543	3.56	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			10.281	2,92	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Río Negro

Senate^[56]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Miguel Ángel Pichetto	171,614	49.95	2
	Progressive Front Alliance	María Magdalena Odarda	90,283	26.28	1
	Radical Civic Union	Miguel Saiz	54,592	15.89	–
	Workers' Party	Norma Dardik	27,066	7.88	–
	Against all		102,337	2.84	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			9,309	2.56	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[57]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	María Emilia Soria	171,313	50.77	2
	Progressive Front Alliance	Mario Néstor Álvarez	82,960	24.58	-
	Radical Civic Union	Yasmin Lopez Asenia	54,214	16.07	–
	Workers' Party	Amalia Quintillan	28,936	8.58	–
	Against all		15,480	4.28	–
Total valid votes				100.00	2
Invalid votes			9,008	2.49	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Salta

Senate^[58]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Rodolfo Julio Urtubey	178,921	29.05	2
	Popular Front of Salta (dissident Peronists)	Juan Carlos Romero	150,745	24.48	1
	We are all Salta	Alfredo Horacio Olmedo	140,329	22.78	–
	Workers' Party	Cristina Foffani	104.613	16.99	–
	Reformist Party of Salta	Andrés Zottos	41.289	6.70	–
	Against all		12,384	1.94	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			8,668	1.36	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[59]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Popular Front of Salta	Guillermo Durand Cornejo	127,179	20.57	1
	Workers' Party	Pablo Sebastián López	118,229	19.11	1
	Justicialist Party	Evita Nélida Isa	117,895	19.05	1
	We are all Salta	Bibiana Singh Kaur	112,262	18.14	–
	Victory Party	Sergio Leavy	47,211	7.63	–
	Salta Renewal Party	Roberto Gramaglia	37,275	6.02	–
	Independent Movement for Justice and Dignity	Jose Ibarra	23,386	3.78	–
	Front Plural	Carlos Posadas	16,754	2.71	–
	Memory and Social Mobilization	Pablo Viel	9,532	1.54	–
	Workers' Socialist Movement	Cecilia Gómez	8,996	1.45	–
	Against all		8,649	1.37	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			5,376	0.85	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

San Juan

Deputies^[60]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Héctor Daniel Tomás	223,586	55.36	2
	Federal Compromise (PRO allies)	Eduardo Augusto Cáceres Giménez	92,268	22.85	1
	Renewal Crusade	Nancy Avelín	42,629	10.55	–
	Radical Civic Union	Hugo Dominguez	18,329	4.54	–
	Dignity Party Citizen	Alberto Sanchez	15,202	3.76	-
	Left for a Socialist Option	Gloria Cimino	6,551	1.62	–
	Front of People	Albero Acüero	5,314	1.32	-
	Against all		4,145	1,00	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			6,306	1,55	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

San Luis

Deputies^[61]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Federal Compromise (dissident Peronists)	Berta Hortensia Arenas	121,512	53.88	2
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	José Luis Riccardo	53,153	23.56	1
	Front for Victory	Cristian Niño	40,340	17.89	-
	Independent Democrat	Juan Barbeito	10,536	4.67	-
	Against all		26,421	10.24	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			5,604	2.17	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Santa Cruz

Deputies^[62]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Union for a better life	Eduardo Raúl Costa	66,915	42.13	2
	Front for Victory	Mauricio Gómez Bull	39,284	24.74	1
	Justicialist Party	Nieves Beroiza	31,834	20.04	-
	Workers' Party	Omar Latini	8,009	11.14	–
	Workers' Socialist Movement	Emilio Poliak	3,098	1.95	–
	Against all		1,080	0.66	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			4,165	2.54	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Santa Fe

Deputies^[63]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Hermes Binner	786,973	42.37	4
	Union Pro Federal Santa Fe	Miguel del Sel	504,681	27.17	3
	Front for Victory	Jorge Obeid	420,476	22.64	2
	Workers' Left Front	Octavio Crivaro	47,555	2.56	–
	New Left	Alejandro Parlante	36,290	1.95	–
	100% Santa Fean (dissident Peronists)	Raúl Carignano	34,309	1.85	–
	Unite with Faith for Culture, Education and Labour (dissident Peronists)	José Bonacci	27,118	1.46	–
	Against all		33,617	1.74
Total valid votes				100.00	9
Invalid votes			38,549	2.00	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Santiago del Estero

Senate^[64]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Civic Front for Santiago (Kirchnerists' allies)	Daniel Brue	218,965	48,25	2
	Popular Front (Kirchnerists' allies)	Gerardo Montenegro	129,454	28.53	1
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Emilio Rached	63,824	14.06	–
	Front for Victory	Héctor Ruiz	21,248	4.69	–
	Left for a Socialist Option	Nicolás Basualdo	12,292	2.71	–
	Party of Faith (dissident Peronists)	Antonio Calabrese	8,009	1.76	–
	Against all		29,886	6.12	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			4,151	0.85	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[65]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Civic Front for Santiago (Kirchnerists' allies)	Cristian Rodolfo Oliva	336,065	76.44	3
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	Paola Griggio	63,824	14.06	–
	Front for Victory	Marcelo Nazar	20,309	4.62	–
	Left for a Socialist Option	Anisa Favoretti	12,358	2.81	–
	Party of Faith (dissident Peronists)	Pedro Brue	8,171	1.86	–
	Against all		32,257	6.78	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			3,514	0.74	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Tierra del Fuego

Senate^[66]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Rosana Bertone	23,883	34.40	2
	Fueguino Popular Movement	Jorge Alberto Garramuño	15,555	22.41	1
	People Solidarity Movement (Kirchnerists' allies)	Mario Jorge Colazo	10,448	15.05	–
	Federal Union	Liliana Fadul	9,589	13.81	–
	Democratic Space for Victory (Kirchnerists' allies)	Osvaldo Ramón López	3,847	5.54	–
	Radical Civic Union	Ángel Da Fonseca	3,716	5.35	–
	Justicialist Party	Patricia Lanzares	2,387	3.44	–
	Against all		11,428	13.52	–
Total valid votes				100.00	3
Invalid votes			3,492	4.13	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Deputies^[67]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Martín Alejandro Pérez	20,320	27.33	1
	People Solidarity Movement	Oscar Martínez	15,734	21.16	1
	Fueguino Popular Movement	Juan Matías Loffler	12,716	17.10	-
	Federal Union	Mario Ferreyra	7,655	10.29	-
	Popular Party	Edgardo Welsch	7,026	9.45	-
	Radical Civic Union	Jose Maria Martin	3,598	4.84	-
	Democratic Space for Victory	Hector Chavez	2,846	3.83	-
	Justicialist Party	Pablo Miguel Garcia	2,648	3.56	–
	GEN	Juan Torres Saltz	1,817	2.44	-
	Against all		6,031	7.10	–
Total valid votes				100.00	2
Invalid votes			4,345	5.12	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

Tucumán

Deputies^[68]

Parties		Front-runner	Votes	%	Seats
	Front for Victory	Juan Luis Manzur	411,863	46.87	2
	Progressive, Civic and Social Front	José Manuel Cano	304,521	34.66	2
	Republican Force	Ricardo Bussi	72,110	8.21	-
	Popular Alternative	Gumersindo Parajon	27,297	3.11	-
	Workers' Left Front	Daniel Blanco	26,521	3.01	-
	Pro Republican Proposal	Alberto Garmendia	23,795	2.71	-
	Labour Independence	Bernardo Hamilton	12,583	1.43	-
	Against all		7,374	0.82	–
Total valid votes				100.00	4
Invalid votes			10,641	1.18	–
Total votes cast
Registered voters

See also

• Argentine provincial elections, 2013

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External links

• Elecciones 2013 (Spanish) - Official site, run by the Interior ministry of Argentina