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

At the national level, Argentina elects a head of state (the President) and a legislature. The franchise extends to all citizens aged 16 and over, and voting is mandatory (with a few exceptions) for all those who are between 18 and 70 years of age.

The President and the Vice-President are elected in one ballot, for a four-year term, by direct popular vote, using a runoff voting system: there must be a second round if no formula gets more than 45% of the affirmative valid votes, or more than 40% of the affirmative valid votes with a difference of 10 percentage points from the second formula, in quantity of affirmative valid votes. Before the 1995 election, the President and Vice-President were both elected by an electoral college.

The National Congress (Congreso Nacional) has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies of the Nation (Cámara de Diputados de la Nación) has 257 members, elected for a four-year term in each electoral district (23 Provinces and the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires) by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method, with half of the seats renewed every two years in all districts. The Senate of the Nation (Senado de la Nación) has 72 members, elected for a six-year term in three-seat constituencies (23 provinces and the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires) for a six-year term, with two seats awarded to the largest party or coalition and one seat to the second largest party or coalition. One-third of the constituencies are renewed every two years. In 2001 the whole senate was renewed. A quota law lays down that at least a third of the candidates on the ballots presented by each party participating in legislative elections must be women.

Schedule

Envelope to cast votes in during the general elections of 2015.

Election

Position	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Type	Open Primaries^{[note 1]} (August) Presidential (October) National Senate (October) Chamber of Deputies (October) Provincial (March-October) Municipalities (March-October)	Municipalities (no data)	Open Primaries (August) National Senate (October) Chamber of Deputies (October) Provincial (TBA) Municipalities (TBA)	Municipalities (no data)	Open Primaries (August) Presidential (October) National Senate (October) Chamber of Deputies (October) Provincial (March-October) Municipalities (March-October)
President and Vice-president	President and Vice-president	None			President and Vice-president
National Senate	Third^{[note 2]}	None	Third^{[note 3]}	None	Third^{[note 4]}
Chamber of Deputies	Half^{[note 5]}	None	Half	None	Half
Provincial (Governors and Legislatures)	22 Provinces (G)^{[note 6]} 23 Provinces (L)^{[note 7]}	None	2 Provinces (G)^{[note 8]} 13 Provinces (L)^{[note 9]}	None	22 Provinces (G)^{[note 10]} 23 Provinces (L)^{[note 11]}
Municipalities (Mayors and Councils)	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data

Inauguration

Position	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Type	Presidential (December) National Senate Chamber of Deputies Provincial Municipalities	Municipalities	National Senate Chamber of Deputies Provincial Municipalities	Municipalities	Presidential National Senate Chamber of Deputies Provincial Municipalities
President and Vice-president	10 December	None			10 December
National Senate	10 December	None	10 December	None	10 December
Chamber of Deputies	10 December	None	10 December	None	10 December
Provinces (Governors and Legislatures)	December	None	December	None	December
Municipalities (Mayors and Councils)	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data

Elections and results

Latest legislative elections

Main article: Argentine legislative election, 2009

**Summary of the 28 June 2009 Argentine National Congress election results**
Coalitions and parties	Chamber of Deputies of the Nation: 127 out of 257 seats			Senate of the Nation: 24 out of 72 seats
Coalitions and parties	Votes	%	Deputies	Votes	%	Senators
Justicialist Party	2,778,326	14.50%	19
Front for Victory	1,679,084	8.80%	14
Justicialist Front	415,404	2.20%	6			-
Others	1,018,515	5.30%	8			-
Total Kirchnerist (Left-wing Peronist)	5,891,330	30.80%	47			8
Civic and Social Agreement	3,794,853	19.80%	28			-
Radical Civic Union	639,818	3.30%	4			-
Front for Everyone	381,067	2.00%	3			-
Others	734,009	3.84%	6
Total Civic and Social Agreement (Center-left radical)	5,549.,747	28.94%	41			14
Republican Proposal (Liberal-conservative and right-wing factions opposed to Kirchner)	3,391,391	17.70%	20			0
Proyecto Sur	437,634	2.30%	4
New Encounter	402,502	2.10%	2
Others	255,566	1.30%	-
Total Left-wing (Socialist)	1,092,702	5.70%	6			0
Others parties	3,208,917	16.77%	13			2
Total	19,134,087		127			24
Registered voters	27,797,930
Votes cast	20,123,715
Invalid votes	989,628	4.90%
Sources: Adam Carr's Website ^[1] Be aware that parties operate under various labels and alliances in the provinces.

2011 presidential election

Main article: Argentine general election, 2011

**Summary of the 23 October 2011 Argentine presidential election results**
Candidate	Party or coalition	Votes	%
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Front for Victory–PJ	11,864,456	54.11%
Hermes Binner	Broad Progressive Front–PS	3,684,595	16.80%
Ricardo Alfonsín	Union for the Social Development–UCR	2,442,880	11.14%
Alberto Rodríguez Saá	Federal Commitment–PJ	1,745,303	7.96%
Eduardo Duhalde	Popular Front–PJ	1,285,783	5.86%
Jorge Altamira	Workers Left Front–PO	503,342	2.30%
Elisa Carrió	Civic Coalition–CC ARI	399,641	1.82%
Blank votes		678,724	3.03%
Null votes		206,030	0.92%
Challenged votes		23,921	0.11%
Turnout			78.89%
Source: elecciones2011.gov.ar

2015 presidential election

Main article: Argentine general election, 2015

Past elections

Elections and referendums in Argentina

Presidential elections	1854 1860 1862 1868 1874 1880 1886 1892 1898 1904 1910 1916 1922 1928 1931 1937 1946 1951 1958 1963 1973 (Mar) 1973 (Sep) 1983 1989 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019

Parliamentary elections	1854 1856 1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868 1870 1872 1874 1876 1878 1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1931 1934 1936 1938 1940 1942 1946 1948 (Mar) 1948 (Dec) 1951 1954 1957 1958 1960 1962 1963 1965 1973 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1994 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019

Provincial elections	1854 1856 1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868 1870 1872 1874 1876 1878 1880 1882 1884 1886 1888 1890 1892 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1931 1934 1936 1937 1938 1940 1942 1946 1948 1951 1954 1957 1958 1960 1962 1963 1965 1973 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019

Referendums	1984

↑ Clarín Infografía (Spanish)

Notes

↑ Simultaneous open primaries for all national candidatures, mandatory for every political party
↑ The following eight provinces renew all its three senators: Buenos Aires Province, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Misiones, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz
↑ The following eight provinces renew all its three senators:Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego
↑ The following eight provinces renew all its three senators: Catamarca, Chubut, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Pampa, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán
↑ All 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires renew half its deputies
↑ All Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires except for Corrientes and Santiago del Estero
↑ All Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires except for Santiago del Estero
↑ Corrientes and Santiago del Estero
↑ Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Catamarca, Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa, Jujuy, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, San Luis and Santiago del Estero
↑ All Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires except for Corrientes and Santiago del Estero
↑ All Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires except for Santiago del Estero

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