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 half of the Senate were renewed. In addition, a number of municipal offices were elected as well.^[1]

2019 Buenos Aires provincial election

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Turnout	10,548,393 (80.00%) 0.48 pp
Candidate Axel Kicillof María Eugenia Vidal Eduardo Bucca Party Frente de Todos Juntos por el Cambio CF Popular vote 5,274,511 3,852,624 513,850 Percentage 52.40% 38.28% 5.11%   Candidate Christian Castillo Gustavo Ricardo Álvarez Party Workers' Left Front–Unity NOS Front Popular vote 282,830 141,249 Percentage 2.81% 1.40%
Map showing the seats won by each party in each partido.
Governor before election María Eugenia Vidal PRO–Cambiemos Elected Governor Axel Kicillof FdT

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

See also

• 2019 Argentine general election
• 2019 Argentine provincial elections
• 2019 Buenos Aires City elections