2021 Argentine legislative election

Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in Argentina on 24 October 2021.[1] Half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the seats in the Senate will be renewed.[2]

2021 Argentine legislative election
24 October 2021
127 of 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
24 out of 72 seats in the Senate
Party Leader Current seats
Chamber of Deputies
Frente de Todos Máximo Kirchner 119
Juntos por el Cambio Mario Negri 115
Federal Consensus Eduardo Bucca 11
We Do for Córdoba Carlos Mario Gutiérrez 4
Front for the Renewal of Concord Ricardo Wellbach 3
Workers' Left Front – Unity Nicolás del Caño 2
Neuquén People's Movement Alma Sapag 1
Progressive, Civic and Social Front Luis Contigiani 1
Socialist Party Enrique Estevez 1
Together We Are Río Negro Luis Di Giacomo 1
Senate
Frente de Todos José Mayans 41
Juntos por el Cambio Luis Petcoff Naidenoff 26
Federal Parlamentarian Juan Carlos Romero 3
Front for the Renewal of Concord Magdalena Solari 1
Together We Are Río Negro Alberto Weretilneck 1

Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) are scheduled to take place on 8 August 2021; however, a bill to scrap the primaries altogether due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is currently being debated by the National Congress; the bill counts with the support of President Alberto Fernández and a majority of provincial governors.[3] Concurrently, another bill has been introduced by the opposition to forbid any cancellation of the primaries in 2021.[4]

127 out of 257 seats in the lower chamber will be renewed, while eight provinces (Catamarca, Chubut, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Pampa, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán) will renew their 3 senators, accounting for 24 out of 72 seats in the upper chamber.[2]

Background

Both executive and legislative offices were renewed in 2019 in Argentina; both elections were won by the Frente de Todos, a new coalition formed by a number of peronist and kirchnerist parties and alliances (chiefly the Justicialist Party and the Renewal Front)[5] to support the presidential ticket of Alberto Fernández and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The Frente de Todos won 64 out of 130 seats up for grabs in the lower house, and presently counts with 119 seats in the 2019–2021 period – 10 seats short of a majority.[6][7]

The second minority and largest force in the opposition is the coalition formed to support former president Mauricio Macri: Juntos por el Cambio (formed by, among others, Republican Proposal, the Radical Civic Union and the Civic Coalition ARI), which won 56 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2019 and presently counts with 115 seats, following defections from its inter-bloc.[7][8]

Electoral system
Number of Deputies at stake in each district.
Provinces that will elect Senators in blue.

Chamber of Deputies

The 257 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by proportional representation in 24 multi-member constituencies based on the provinces (plus the City of Buenos Aires). Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with a 3% electoral threshold.[9] In this election, 127 of the 257 seats are up for renewal for a four-year term.[10]

Province Seats Seats
at stake
Buenos Aires 70 35
City of Buenos Aires 25 13
Catamarca 5 3
Chaco 7 4
Chubut 5 2
Córdoba 18 9
Corrientes 7 3
Entre Ríos 9 5
Formosa 5 2
Jujuy 6 3
La Pampa 5 3
La Rioja 5 2
Mendoza 10 5
Misiones 7 3
Neuquén 5 3
Río Negro 5 2
Salta 7 3
San Juan 6 3
San Luis 5 3
Santa Cruz 5 3
Santa Fe 19 9
Santiago del Estero 7 3
Tierra del Fuego 5 2
Tucumán 9 4
Total 257 127

Senate

The 72 members of the Senate are elected in the same 24 constituencies, with three seats in each. The party receiving the most votes in each constituency wins two seats, with the third seat awarded to the second-placed party.[11] The 2021 elections will see one-third of Senators renewed, with eight provinces electing three Senators; Catamarca, Chubut, Córdoba, Corrientes, La Pampa, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán.[10]

Current composition
Main articles: List of Argentine deputies, 2019–2021 and List of Argentine senators, 2019–2021

References
  1. "En medio de la pandemia, el Gobierno confirmó el calendario electoral para el año que viene". Infobae (in Spanish). 29 June 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  2. "¿Qué se vota en las elecciones de 2021 en Argentina?". MDZ Online (in Spanish). 28 October 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. "La pulseada por las PASO 2021". Página/12 (in Spanish). 20 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. "PASO 2021: una diputada presentó un proyecto para prohibir la suspensión de las primarias". Perfil (in Spanish). 15 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. El Ali, Julio (27 October 2020). "Se cumple un año de la victoria del Frente de Todos en las elecciones presidenciales". Télam (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. "¿Cómo quedó conformado el Congreso después de las elecciones?". Página/12 (in Spanish). 28 October 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. "Diputados Nacionales". Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. Argento, Analía (30 October 2020). "Después de votar a favor del Presupuesto, un diputado dejó el bloque de Juntos por el Cambio". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. Electoral system Inter-Parliamentary Union
  10. "Elecciones legislativas 2021: ¿Qué se vota y a quiénes se les vence el mandato?". Ámbito (in Spanish). 30 June 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  11. Electoral system Inter-Parliamentary Union
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