The Minister of Economy Sergio Massa won the elections held this Sunday with 36.68% of votes to the 29.98% of the libertarian economist, Javier Milei, who reversed the positions obtained in the PASO (primary, open, simultaneous and mandatory) held on August 13, when Milei won with 29.86% of the vote and Massa came second, with 21.43%.
More than 9.6 million voters supported the official candidate, despite the difficult socioeconomic context that the country is going through, with year-on-year inflation that rose to almost 140% in September, a poverty level of 40% and an exchange rate gap greater than 200 %.
For their part, almost 7.9 million Argentines supported the disruptive proposals of the libertarian candidate.
Some 35.4 million Argentines were called to the polls this Sunday to elect president and vice president. The Argentine press publishes the results this Monday, district by district.
Massa won votes in more provinces
By province, Massa won votes in almost all of them compared to the August primaries: Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chubut, Caba, Corriente, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, San Juan , San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego and Tucumán. While Milei, on the contrary, only gained followers compared to August, and few, in Catamarca, Caba, Entre Ríos and Formosa.
The state most favorable to Massa is Santiago del Estero, in the central north of the country. For its part, Milei has the greatest proportional strength in San Luis and Mendoza, in the west, with 40% of popular support.
Milei has its most loyal electorate in the northern provinces of Salta and Jujuy, and in the interior, such as Córdoba and Mendoza. However, with the exception of Corrientes and Santa Cruz, Massa dominates throughout the east of the country, from Corrientes to Patagonia.
In Córdoba it is striking that by running for president its governor, Juan Schiaretti, Milei won the province, although in eight northern districts the majority voted for Schiaretti.
Buenos Aires, center-right
The capital, the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, located in the central east of Argentina, has fifteen districts and none of them were won by Milei, all of them elected either the center-right of Patricia Bullrich, the most voted in the city (41.22% ) or the ruling party Sergio Massa, the second most voted (32.27%) and with 4 districts in his favor. For its part, Mile obtained 19.84% of the votes, without obtaining a majority in any district, but increasing votes since the August primaries, 55,000 more.
What was the lever to reverse the situation between Massa and Milei from August to October? The media spoke that Monday of a “remarkable recovery of Peronism in Greater Buenos Aires” and an excellent result in the interior of the province as the two axes that marked the national difference in favor of the Peronist.
The second electoral round will take place on November 19 and, as required by Argentine law, a week before, on the 12th, there will be a debate between the two candidates, which will be held in Buenos Aires.