2007 Buenos Aires City elections

General elections were held in the City of Buenos Aires on 3 June 2007 to elect the Chief of Government (mayor) and half of the City Legislature to four-year terms. As no mayoral candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held on 31 July 2011, in which Mauricio Macri, of the Commitment to Change (CpC) party, defeated Daniel Filmus of the Front for Victory (FPV) coalition to be elected as Chief of Government of Buenos Aires.

2007 Buenos Aires City elections

Mayoral election
← 2003 3 June 2007 (first round) 24 June 2007 (second round) 2011 →
Turnout	70.01% (first round) 68.38% (second round)
Nominee Mauricio Macri Daniel Filmus Party CpC PJ Alliance PRO Front for Victory Running mate Gabriela Michetti Carlos Heller Popular vote 1,007,729 645,779 Percentage 60.94% 39.06%
Second round results by electoral circunscription
Chief of Government before election Jorge Telerman PJ Elected Chief of Government Mauricio Macri CpC–PRO
City Legislature
← 2005 3 June 2007 2009 →
30 out of 60 seats in the City Legislature
Turnout	73.15%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PRO Mauricio Macri 44.32 15 +2 DpBA Aníbal Ibarra 14.44 4 New FPV-PJ Daniel Filmus 10.76 3 −4 MBA Jorge Telerman 9.95 3 New CC Elisa Carrió 8.59 2 MST Patricia Walsh 4.04 1 +1 BAPT Claudio Lozano 2.97 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Incumbent Jorge Telerman, who had assumed office just over a year prior to the election following the impeachment of Aníbal Ibarra over repercussions from the 2004 Cromañón nightclub fire, sought re-election but was defeated in the first round.

Background

The 2003 elections in Buenos Aires resulted in the re-election of progressive former prosecutor and mayor Aníbal Ibarra, of the Broad Front, in the run-off against centre-right businessman and former Boca Juniors president Mauricio Macri, of Commitment to Change (CpC).^{[citation needed]}

Just a year later, however, the Cromañón nightclub fire sent shockwaves through the political establishment of Buenos Aires and led to Ibarra's suspension from office in 2005 and eventual impeachment in 2006, amid accusations of corruption and negligence.^[1] Ibarra was replaced by his deputy, Jorge Telerman.^[2]

As the existing political alliances had crumbled in the aftermath of Cromañón, Telerman sought re-election on the Civic Coalition ticket, with former mayor Enrique Olivera as running mate,^[3] while Macri and his CpC party, now part of the Republican Proposal alliance, geared up for a second attempt at the mayorship.^[4] The peronist Front for Victory nominated sociologist and national education minister Daniel Filmus, deputised by labour leader Carlos Heller.^[5]

Candidates

Coalition		Mayoral candidate (party) Prior political experience	Vice mayoral candidate (party) Prior political experience	Parties
		Mauricio Macri (CPC) National Deputy (2005–2007)	Gabriela Michetti (CPC) City Legislator (2003–2007)	CPC RPC MID PDP PD PF UP PB FJI
		Daniel Filmus (PJ) Minister of Education (2003–2007)	Carlos Heller (PSOL) President of Banco Credicoop (since 2005)	PJ PV PSOL FPyP PGI PDC RxBA JEA
		Jorge Telerman (PJ) Chief of Government (2006–2007)	Enrique Olivera (ARI) Chief of Government (1999–2000)	ARI UCR PS PDC LDS EP UPT CP DB IV RRP
		Patricia Walsh (MST) National Deputy (2001–2005)	Héctor Bidonde (MST) City Legislator (2003–2007)	MST
		Claudio Lozano (BAPT) National Deputy (2003–2015)	María América González (BAPT) National Deputy (1997–2003)	BAPT

Results

Chief of Government

Candidate		Running mate	Party	First round		Second round
				Votes	%	Votes	%
	Mauricio Macri	Gabriela Michetti	PRO Alliance	798,292	45.76	1,007,729	60.94
	Daniel Filmus	Carlos Heller	Front for Victory–Dialogue for Buenos Aires	414,205	23.75	645,779	39.06
	Jorge Telerman	Enrique Olivera	More for Buenos Aires–Civic Coalition	360,734	20.68
	Patricia Walsh	Héctor Bidonde	Workers' Socialist Movement	51,465	2.95
	Claudio Lozano	María América González	Buenos Aires for All	47,505	2.72
	Lía Méndez	Néstor Jorge Avella	Humanist Party	16,346	0.94
	Marcelo Ramal	Vanina Biasi	Workers' Party	15,623	0.90
	Guillermo Cherashny	Miguel Ángel Ramón Gómez	Porteño Consensus Party	6,471	0.37
	Christian Castillo	Carlos Artacho	Socialist Workers' Party	6,151	0.35
	Jorge Selser	Adrián Camps	Authentic Socialist Party	5,925	0.34
	José Castillo	Jorge Guidobono Rey	Revolutionary Socialist Left Front	5,769	0.33
	Héctor Heberling	Andrea Fabiana Salmini	Socialist Advance Movement	3,317	0.19
	Rubén Oscar Saboulard	Héctor Guillermo Bullrich	Independent Justice and Dignity Movement	2,949	0.17
	Enrique Venturino	Carlos Hoyos	Citizens' Front	2,383	0.14
	Juan Carlos Beica	Esilda Raquel Bustos	Socialist Convergence	2,200	0.13
	Javier Ernesto Brodsky	Arturo José Pécora	Popular Concertation	2,028	0.12
	Juan Ricardo Mussa	María Daniel Llanos	Citizen Action	1,810	0.10
	Graciela Patané	Hilda Orlinda Oates	The Movement	1,183	0.07
Total				1,744,356	100.00	1,653,508	100.00
Valid votes				1,744,356	96.81	1,653,508	94.01
Invalid votes				27,132	1.51	52,045	2.96
Blank votes				30,347	1.68	53,334	3.03
Total votes				1,801,835	100.00	1,758,887	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				2,573,731	70.01	2,573,731	68.34
Source: [6][7]

Legislature

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Not up	Won	Total
	Republican Proposal Alliance	768,748	44.32	13	15	28
	Dialogue for Buenos Aires	250,471	14.44	New	5	5
	Front for Victory	172,642	10.76	7	3	8
	More Buenos Aires	227,430	9.95	New	3	3
	Civic Coalition	148,899	8.59	8	2	10
	Socialist Workers' Movement	70,065	4.04	0	1	1
	Buenos Aires for All	51,506	2.97	0	1	1
	Workers' Party	18,927	1.09	0	0	0
	Humanist Party	17,981	1.04	0	0	0
	Authentic Socialist Party	7,253	0.42	0	0	0
	Socialist Workers' Party	6,585	0.38	0	0	0
	Revolutionary Socialist Left Front	6,484	0.37	0	0	0
	Porteño Consensus Party	6,241	0.36	0	0	0
	Movement for Socialism	3,532	0.20	0	0	0
	Independent Justice and Dignity Movement	3,191	0.18	0	0	0
	Movement for Dignity and Independence	2,818	0.16	0	0	0
	Porteño Commitment	2,789	0.16	0	0	0
	Socialist Convergence	2,650	0.15	0	0	0
	Socialist Convergence	2,650	0.15	0	0	0
	Citizen Action	1,965	0.11	0	0	0
	Call to Social Integration	1,431	0.08	0	0	0
	The Movement	1,247	0.07	0	0	0
Blank votes		40,138	–	–	–	–
Invalid votes		27,303	–	–	–	–
Total		1,801,835	100	30	30	60
Registered voters/turnout		2,573,731	70.01
Source: [6]

See also

• Cromañón nightclub fire
• 2007 Argentine general election
• List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires