Argentine general election, 2011

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23 October 2011

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Turnout	79.39%

Nominee	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	Hermes Binner	Ricardo Alfonsín
Party	Justicialist Party	Socialist Party	Radical Civic Union
Alliance	Front for Victory	Broad Progressive Front	Union for the Social Development
Home state	Santa Cruz	Santa Fe	Buenos Aires
Running mate	Amado Boudou	Norma Morandini	Javier González Fraga
States carried	22 + CABA	0	0
Popular vote	11,865,055	3,684,970	2,443,016
Percentage	54.1%	16.8%	11.1%

President before election

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
FPV-PJ

Elected President

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
FPV-PJ

Argentina held national presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, 23 October 2011. Incumbent president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner secured a second term in office after the Front for Victory won just over half of the seats in the National Congress.

Mercosur Parliamentarians were also popularly elected for the first time. Another novelty was the introduction of open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries. These took place 14 August 2011 to select the candidates of each political party or coalition.

The nation's myriad parties forged seven coalitions, of which five became contenders for a possible runoff election:

Other coalitions of note include the Workers' Left Front, led by Jorge Altamira, and Proyecto Sur, led by Pino Solanas; the latter left the Socialist Party-led coalition and instead formed an alliance with the MST and the PSA.

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