PRIMARY ELECTIONS Special Report
WHAT IS AT STAKE?
Provincial Elections President 24 130 National Representatives Provinces of Catamarca, Buenos Aires, and the City of Vicepresident National Senators Buenos Aires held primary elections to governor while Santa Cruz had general election.
NATIONAL PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS
s 47.65% PARTICIPATION: 75,78% Alberto Fernández – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
32.08%
Mauricio Macri - Miguel Ángel Pichetto
8.22%
Roberto Lavagna – Juan Manuel Urtubey 2.86%
Nicolás del Caño – Romina del Pla
2.63%
Juan J. Gómez Centurión – Cynthia Hotton 2.18%
José Luis Espert – Luis Rosales ELECTORAL THRESHOLD 1.5% 0.71%
Manuela Castañeira – Eduardo Mulhall 0.24%
Alejandro Biondini – Enrique Venturino
0.14%
Raul Albarracín – Sergio Pastore
0.13%
José Antonio Romero Feris – Guillermo Sueldo
POLITICAL SUPPORT KEYS
#1 THE CENTER REGION VOTE #2 BUENOS AIRES SUPPORT #3 THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
The National Government In the first section of the Other provinces, mainly driven expected to count with greater province of Buenos Aires, by the support of several support in Córdoba and Santa bastion of Cambiemos in 2015 Peronist governors, also added Fe, that along with Mendoza, and 2017, the officialism got an important part of votes that would provide a number of adverse results from expected summed up in the final result votes to face the tight scenario while in the other two -of an led Alberto Fernández to win in the province of Buenos Aires, average lower income-, the with several points ahead. but finally it turned the opposite Frente de Todos prevailed with way. an even wider difference. POLITICAL KEYS
The Government had been If percentages are kept Electoral surveys are driving a polarization the same by the October once again on the spot, process that did not worked generals, the Frente de after the closest scenario out as expected, after Todos would become the predicted only 7 points of economy management of first minority in both difference and an paired the last 4 years became Chambers of the National definition for the Buenos highly relevant. Congress. Aires province.
POLARIZATION CONGRESS POLLSTERS
PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS – COUNTING RESULTS
BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
• Axel Kicillof 49.17% • Horacio R. Larreta • Verónica Magario 46.48% • Diego Santilli
• María Eugenia Vidal 32.78% • Matías Lammens • Daniel Salvador PERFECNTAGE OF THE 31.93% NATIONAL REGISTER • Gisela Marzlotta REPRESENTED • Eduardo Bucca 5.81% • Matías Tombolini 7.22% • Miguel Saredi
The results of the district were not only The primary elections in the City of Buenos Aires surprising, but also significant. The had a participation of almost a 76%, and the representative of the Frente de Todos, Axel 0,92% voters seemed to give its approval to the current Kicillof, won the primary election by 52.5% of Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, who achieved ballots against the 34.7% obtained by the current a difference that would bring him closer to an governor, María Eugenia Vidal. The ballot cut eventual re-election. The victory of Larreta, who that was expected by the ruling party did not 7,95% was accompanied by Diego Santilli and the performed as much. Although Vidal obtained candidate for Senator for the City Martín almost 3 points more than President Macri, the Lousteau represented the best result obtained by strength of the Frente de Todos in all categories Juntos por el Cambio in these elections. On the resulted more significant. Juntos por el Cambio other hand, the candidate of the Frente de Todos, lost strong support from the agricultural sector 37% Matias Lammens, got a 31.93% of the votes, and in and also in those districts in which they got this way, he managed to break the historical strong support in 2015, loosing current official record obtained by Kirchnerism in 2011 with intendancies, such as La Plata, Tres de Febrero Daniel Filmus, when he reached 27, 4% of the or Quilmes, however Juntos por el Cambio kept votes in the City. From the Frente de Todos, the its hegemony in traditional PRO bastions, such votes obtained by Lammens are expected to as Vicente López and San Isidro. improve until October so that could even force a second round with Larreta.
CATAMARCA 0,74% SANTA CRUZ • Raú Jalil 56.97%
• Alicia Kirchner 40.8% • Roberto Gómez 25.87%
• Javier Belloni 34,6% • Hugo Ávila 4.13% *As a result, the space obtained a total of 57.5% In the Province of Catamarca, none of the parties of the ballots have held internal elections, after the possibility of suspending them because of the high cost that it • Eduardo Costa 53.8% represented for the local administration was considered. In this order, these primaries represented the first measurement for the *As a result, the space obtained a total of 32,8% Province, The results showed that the candidate of of the ballots the Frente de Todos, Raúl Jalil, imposed himself by a wide margin over the candidate of Juntos Por el The province of Santa Cruz, is governed Cambio, Roberto Gómez. Jalil obtained 56.97% of under the system of Ley de Lemas (that the votes, against 25.87% of its competitor. This gathers votes under a same party). With result seems to set a difficult trend to reverse 57.3%, of ballots, the Frente de Todos won the before October. Raúl Jalil, who has the support of election over Juntos por el Cambio, the current Governor, is accompanied by the establishing the re-election of the current current Minister of Public Works of the Province, governor, Alicia Kirchner in a district Rubén Dusso, as a candidate for Vice governor. characterized by economic problems and severe allegations of political corruption.