Peronism will retain its position as the largest group, or first minority, in the Buenos Aires Province Legislature following last Sunday’s win in the provincial election.
The newly renamed Fuerza Patria coalition emerges strengthened in both chambers, returning all the seats it had up for grabs and adding more.
In the lower house Chamber of Deputies, it won 21 seats to boost its representation to 39 seats.
In the upper chamber, the Peronist front secured enough benches to be able to reach quorum. It will now hold 24 seats out of 46.
Lower house
Breaking down the figures for the lower house, Peronism renewed all eight of its benches up for re-election while adding two more. It secured four of the four being risked in the Second Electoral Section and the Sixth and three in the Eighth.
Lifting its total from 37 seats to 39, Fuerza Patria is now only eight away from reaching quorum.
On the other side of the aisle, the alliance between La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and PRO added six new candidates and thus it will have a caucus of 31 seats. Cumulatively, both blocs previously held 25.
LLA and PRO obtained two new seats in the Third Electoral Section (in addition to the four up for grabs), renewed four in the Second Section and three more in the Eighth, whereas it got five in the Sixth Section and achieved one more than the four at stake in that region.
The left-wing Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores (FIT) renewed the two seats it had for grabs in the Third. Hechos, a new force which is an offshoot of PRO and led by the Passaglia brothers, won three seats.
The two Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) blocs have 15 members, out of the 10 at stake and thus four will have a mandate for UCR-Cambio Federal, and three for Somos, since one had a mandate until 2027 and today two more were added, in addition to two for Coalición Cívica (CC)in the same lot.
Centrist caucuses will thus have nine legislators between UCR, CC and Somos.
Libertarian Unión y Libertad have five seats with a mandate until 2027 and Unión Renovación y Fe three with one for Derecha Popular.
Senate
In the Senate, Fuerza Patria is within reach of quorum – it obtained 13 seats and, since it had 11 seats with a mandate until 2027, it will have a caucus of 24 out of the 46 in the upper house.
Peronism won four out of the five at stake in the First Electoral Section, renewed all three in the Fourth Electoral Section and two in the Fifth Section, and managed to add two seats in the Seventh.
In the Seventh Electoral Section, three seats were being elected. Fuerza Patria had one of them up for grabs but picked up all three, due to the way the calculation is made according to the Hare quota.
The coalition between LLA and PRO obtained eight of the five seats at stake and will have a caucus of 16 members – beforehand, the libertarians had three seats with a mandate until 2027 and PRO held five.
The new right-wing alliance managed to renew all three seats at stake in the First Electoral Section; two in the Fifth Section, where one was at stake, and three in the Fourth Section, where another was at stake.
The big loser from this election is Radicalism, who between their two blocks exposed seven out of their eight seats at stake and only won, via Somos, two seats in the Fourth Electoral Section. They will have only three benches.
The Senate is also completed by three senators from Unión y Libertad.
At stake
In this election, 18 deputies were elected in the Third Electoral Section (the southern districts of Greater Buenos Aires); 11 seats in the Second Section, located in the north of the province; 11 deputies in the Sixth, in the southwest of the province; and six in the Eighth, or the provincial capital of La Plata.
Senators were also elected in these sections: eight in the First, located in northern Greater Buenos Aires: seven in the Fourth, in northwestern Buenos Aires Province; five in the Fifth Section, on the Atlantic coast; and three in the Seventh, in central Buenos Aires Province.
– TIMES/NA
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