2015 Argentine general election

2015 Argentine general election

Presidential election
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Registered	32,130,853 (first round) 32,108,509 (second round)
Turnout	81.07% (first round) 80.77% (second round)
Nominee Mauricio Macri Daniel Scioli Party PRO PJ Alliance Cambiemos FPV Running mate Gabriela Michetti Carlos Zannini Popular vote 12,988,349 12,309,575 Percentage 51.34% 48.66%
First round results by province and department Second round results by province and department
President before election Cristina Fernández de Kirchner FPV–PJ Elected President Mauricio Macri Cambiemos–PRO
Chamber of Deputies
← 2013 25 October 2015 2017 →
130 of the 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Turnout	81.06%
Party Vote % Seats FPV-PJ 37.39 60 Cambiemos 35.11 47 United for a New Alternative 17.56 17 FIT – Unidad 4.19 1 Progresistas 3.43 2 CF 1.17 2 ChuSoTo 0.37 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
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24 of the 72 seats in the Senate
Turnout	79.83%
Party Vote % Seats Cambiemos 38.81 9 FPV-PJ 32.72 13 United for a New Alternative 16.86 1 ChuSoTo 1.20 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Chamber of Deputies results by province

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General elections were held in Argentina on 25 October 2015 to elect the President and National Congress, and followed primary elections which were held on 9 August 2015. A second round of voting between the two leading candidates took place on 22 November, after surprisingly close results forced a runoff.^[1] On the first runoff voting ever held for an Argentine Presidential Election, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri narrowly defeated Front for Victory candidate and Buenos Aires Province Governor Daniel Scioli with 51.34% of votes.^[2] Macri's vote count of nearly 13 million votes made it the highest number of votes any candidate has ever received in Argentinian history until Javier Milei's victory in the 2023 presidential election. He took office on 10 December, making him the first freely elected president in almost a century who was not either a Radical or a Peronist.

Macri performed better among higher-income provinces in the central area of the country, while Scioli performed strongly in poorer provinces in the northwest, the northeast and Patagonia.^[3]