Argentine general election, 2007

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Argentine general election, 2007

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Registered 27,137,536
Turnout 76.20%

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Nominee Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Elisa Carrió Roberto Lavagna
Party Justicialist Party Support for an Egalitarian Republic Independent
Alliance Front for Victory Civic Coalition An Advanced Nation
Home state Buenos Aires Province City of Buenos Aires CABA
Running mate Julio Cobos Rubén Giustiniani Gerardo Morales
States carried21 CABA 1
Popular vote8,652,293 4,403,6423,230,236
Percentage45.27%23.05%16.91

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President before election

Néstor Kirchner
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Elected President

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
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President Nestor Kirchner (2nd from right) backs winning Front for Victory candidates (from L to R) Daniel Scioli (Governor), Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (President) and Julio Cobos (VP). Elecciones en Argentina - Cristina y Nestor Kirchner 26102007 - 3.jpg
President Néstor Kirchner (2nd from right) backs winning Front for Victory candidates (from L to R)
Daniel Scioli (Governor), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (President) and Julio Cobos (VP).

Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, October 28, 2007, and elections for provincial governors took place on staggered dates throughout the year. For the national elections, each of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires are considered electoral districts. Voter turnout was 76.2%.

Argentina federal republic in South America

Argentina, officially named the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.

Buenos Aires Place in Argentina

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 15.6 million.

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Background

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Elections for a successor to President Néstor Kirchner were held in October. Kirchner had declined to run for a second term.

President of Argentina Head of State of Argentina

The President of Argentina, officially known as the President of the Argentine Republic, is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under the national Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

Néstor Kirchner president of Argentina

Néstor Carlos Kirchner Jr. was an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and as Governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003. Ideologically a Peronist and social democrat, he served as President of the Justicialist Party from 2008 to 2010, with his political approach being characterised as Kirchnerism.

In addition to the President, each district elected a number of members of the Lower House (the Chamber of Deputies) roughly proportional to their population, and eight districts elected members to the Argentine Senate, where each district is entitled to three senators (two for the majority, one for the largest minority party). In most provinces, the national elections were conducted in parallel with local ones, whereby a number of municipalities elect legislative officials (concejales) and in some cases also a mayor (or the equivalent executive post). Each provincial election follows local regulations and some, such as Tucumán, hold municipal elections on other dates in the year.

Argentine Senate

The Argentine Senate is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina.

According to the rules for elections in Argentina, to win the presidential election without needing a "ballotage" round, a candidate needs either more than 45% of the valid votes, or more than 40% of the valid votes with a margin of 10 points from the runner-up. Following months of speculation, and despite high approval ratings, President Kirchner confirmed his decision to forfeit the 2007 race, and the ruling Front for Victory (FpV), a center-left Peronist Party, nominated the First Lady, Senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on July 19. [1] Acknowledging the support of a growing number of UCR figures ("K Radicals") to the populist policies advanced by Kirchnerism, the FpV nominated Mendoza Province Governor Julio Cobos as her running mate. [2]

Elections in Argentina

This article is about voting, elections, and election results in Argentina. For details of Argentine government institutions and political parties, see Politics of Argentina.

The ballotage system is included in the Constitution of Argentina. It was added by the 1994 amendment, as part of the negotiations between Raúl Alfonsín and President Carlos Menem.

Front for Victory centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, formally a faction of the Justicialist Party

The Front for Victory is a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former president Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007–2015) belong to this party, located on the centre-left of the mainstream Argentine political spectrum. The party was led by Néstor Kirchner until his death in 2010. The Front for Victory is ideologically identified with what has been called Kirchnerism. Legally, the Front should not be confused with the Party for Victory, which is just one of the political parties in it.

The ideologically diverse field also included former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna (who broke with Kirchner in late 2005, obtained the endorsement of the UCR, and ran slightly to the right of the FpV), Elisa Carrió (a center-left Congresswoman close to the Catholic Church), [3] and numerous conservatives and socialists; in all, fourteen candidates registered for the election. The UCR, for the first time since it first ran in a presidential campaign in 1892, joined a coalition (Lavagna's UNA) rather than nominate its own candidate.

Roberto Lavagna Argentine economist and politician

Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician who was Minister of Economy and Production from April 27, 2002 until November 28, 2005.

Radical Civic Union Argentine political party

The Radical Civic Union is a centrist social-liberal political party in Argentina. The party has been ideologically heterogeneous, ranging from classical liberalism to social democracy. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International.

Elisa Carrió Argentine lawyer, professor and politician

Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió is an Argentine lawyer, professor and politician, who is an Argentine National Deputy for Buenos Aires. She was the founder of the Argentine political party Civic Coalition ARI.

The President, who had maintained high approval ratings throughout his term on the heels of a strong recovery in the Argentine economy, was beset by controversies during 2007, including Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno's firing of Graciela Bevacqua (the INDEC statistician overseeing inflation data), allegations of Planning Minister Julio de Vido's involvement in a Skanska bribery case, and the "suitcase scandal." These controversies, however, did not ultimately overshadow positive consumer sentiment and a generally high presidential job approval. [4]

Julio de Vido Minister of Planning and Public Works of Argentina

Julio Miguel de Vido is an Argentine policy maker and former Minister of Planning and Public Investment (2003–2015).

Skanska AB is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden. Skanska is the fifth largest construction company in the world according to Construction Global magazine. Notable Skanska projects include the World Trade Center Transportation Hub project, 30 St Mary Axe, MetLife Stadium, Mater Dei Hospital, among others.

The Front for Victory's candidate, Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, maintained a comfortable lead in polling during the campaign. Her opponents focused on denying her the vote share needed to win outright. However, with 13 challengers splitting the vote, Fernández won a decisive first-round victory with 45.3% of the valid votes, more than 22 percent ahead of runner-up Carrió. She won in every province or district except San Luis (won by Alberto Rodríguez Saá), Córdoba (won by Lavagna), and the City of Buenos Aires (won by Carrió). Carrió, who obtained 23%, made history as the first runner-up to another woman in a national election in the Americas. [3]

Presidential candidates

A total of 14 candidates were on the presidential ballot, although only 3 or 4 garnered statistically significant amounts of support in polls. The candidates were as follows:

Results

President

Presidential
candidate		Vice Presidential
candidate		Party or CoalitionVotes%
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Julio Cobos 8,652,29345.28
Elisa Carrió Rubén Giustiniani 4,403,64223.05
Roberto Lavagna Gerardo Morales 3,230,23616.91
Alberto Rodríguez Saá Héctor María Maya 1,459,1747.64
Fernando Solanas Angel Cadelli Authentic Socialist Party 301,5371.58
Ricardo López Murphy Esteban Bullrich Recreate for Growth 273,4061.43
Jorge Sobisch Jorge Asís 268,4011.40
Vilma Ripoll Héctor Bidonde Workers' Socialist Movement 142,5280.75
Néstor Pitrola Gabriela Arroyo Workers' Party 116,6880.61
José Montes Héctor Heberling 84,6940.44
Luis Ammann Rogelio de Leonardi 69,7870.37
Raúl Castells Nina Pelozo Movimiento Independiente de Jubilados y Desocupados48.8780.26
Gustavo Breide Obeid Héctor Vergara Peoples Reconstruction Party 45,3180.24
Juan Ricardo Mussa Bernardo Nespral Confederación Lealtad Popular10,5580.06
Total19,107,140100
Positive votes19,107,14097.28
Blank votes1,331,0116.44
Invalid votes241,1751.17
Votes errors10.00
Turnout20,679,32776.20
Abstentions6,458,20923.80
Registered voters27,137,536100
Source: Dirección Nacional Electoral - Recorriendo las Elecciones de 1983 a 2013

Congress

Elections were also held for 130 of the 257 members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and for 24 of the 72 members of the Argentine Senate. Results were as follows:

Chamber of Deputies
Senate

Governors

The elections for governors took place in ten provinces in September, which were won in six provinces by Kirchner's Front for Victory. Hermes Binner was elected governor of Santa Fe, defeating Peronist Rafael Bielsa, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pres. Néstor Kirchner. Binner thus became the first Socialist governor in Argentina's history and the first non-Justicialist elected governor of that province. Center-left Fabiana Ríos (ARI) became the first woman elected governor in Argentina, winning an upset in Tierra del Fuego Province, while the moderately conservative Mauricio Macri was elected Mayor of Buenos Aires (an office similar to governor) in June 2007. [5]

Corrientes Province and Santiago del Estero Province did not have elections for governors in 2007, as they had already taken place in 2005.

DistrictElected GovernorParty%Runner-upParty%
Buenos Aires Daniel Scioli Front for Victory (FPV)48.2 Margarita Stolbizer Civic Coalition 16.6
Catamarca Eduardo Brizuela del Moral Civic Social Front - FPV52.6Luis Barrionuevo Justicialist Party (JP)37.6
Chaco Jorge Capitanich Justicialist46.8 Ángel Rozas L Front for All (UCR)46.6
Chubut Mario Das Neves Justicialist76.7Raúl Barneche UCR 13.5
City of Buenos Aires Mauricio Macri PRO 60.9 Daniel Filmus L Front for Victory (FPV)39.1
Córdoba 1 Juan Schiaretti Justicialist37.2 Luis Juez Social and Civic Agreement 36.0
Entre Ríos Sergio Urribarri FPV47.0Gustavo CusinatoUCR19.9
Formosa Gildo Insfrán RJusticialist76.0Gabriel HernándezUCR19.2
Jujuy Walter Barrionuevo FPV36.0Carlos Snopek Jujuy First Alliance 30.0
La Pampa Óscar Jorge Justicialist53.5 Juan Carlos Marino Social and Civic Agreement36.6
La Rioja Luis Beder Herrera RLa Rioja People's Front42.6Ricardo QuintelaFPV27.8
Mendoza Celso Jaque Justicialist37.9César Biffi Citizen's Alliance 30.0
Misiones Maurice Closs Front for the Renewal of Concord 38.4Pablo TschirschFPV28.6
Neuquén Jorge Sapag Neuquén People's Movement 48.3Horacio QuirogaFPV - UCR Alliance35.0
Río Negro Miguel Saiz UCR47.3 Miguel Ángel Pichetto FPV40.8
Salta Juan Manuel Urtubey Salta Renewal Party - FPV Alliance46.3Walter WayarJusticialist45.3
San Juan José Luis Gioja FPV61.2 Roberto Basualdo Front for Change24.5
San Luis Alberto Rodríguez Saá RJusticialist86.3Roque Palma Popular Socialist 9.8
Santa Cruz Daniel Peralta FPV58.1Eduardo CostaUCR38.8
Santa Fe Hermes Binner Progressive, Civic and Social Front 52.7 Rafael Bielsa FPV41.9
Santiago del Estero 2 Gerardo Zamora R Civic Front for Santiago 85.1Marcelo LugonesPopular Unity Force (UCR)5.0
Tierra del Fuego Fabiana Ríos ARI 52.4 Hugo Cóccaro FPV47.6
Tucumán José Alperovich RFPV78.2Ricardo Bussi Republican Force 5.3
Sources: Clarín, September 3, 2007. National Electoral Direction, Ministry of Interior.
1: Civic and Social Front candidate Luis Juez, who lost by 1.1%, accused Justicialist candidate Juan Schiaretti of electoral fraud; the Argentine Supreme Court certified the results in October. [6]
2: Election held November 30, 2008.
R: Reelected.
L: Incumbent lost.

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References

  1. ↑ La Nación (in Spanish)
  2. ↑ Página/12 (in Spanish)
  3. 1 2 Con perfume de mujer (in Spanish)El Espectador
  4. ↑ Reuters (5/30?2007)
  5. ↑ Pour la première fois, un socialiste est élu gouverneur d'une province argentine, Le Monde , September 4, 2007 (in French)
  6. ↑ "Córdoba: la Justicia confirmó su triunfo y Schiaretti ya es gobernador electo". Clarín. October 19, 2007.
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