1996 Buenos Aires City elections
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General elections were held in the City of Buenos Aires on 30 June 1996 to elect the city's first Chief of Government (mayor) and all 60 members of the Constituent Assembly, which was tasked with drafting and adopting a new constitution for Buenos Aires. These were the first elections ever held in the city to elect its local authorities, following the 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina which granted autonomy to the city. Prior to the 1996 election, the mayor (intendente) was directly appointed by the President of Argentina.
In the mayoral election, Radical Civic Union senator Fernando de la Rúa won in the first round of voting with 39.89% of the vote. The electoral rules established for this election did not require for a second round of voting (which would be implemented by the 1996 Constitution of Buenos Aires, currently in place). Incumbent mayor Jorge Domínguez sought to continue in office but received only 18% of the vote.[1][2]
The legislative election resulted in a Constitutional Assembly controlled by the FREPASO, an alliance of centre-left and left-wing parties.
Background
[edit]Ever since the federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880, during the government of President Nicolás Avellaneda, the city of Buenos Aires – federal capital of Argentina – became a separate entity from Buenos Aires Province, operating as a non-autonomous city directly dependent on the government of Argentina. The Mayor of Buenos Aires (intendente) was from that point on appointed directly by the President of Argentina, while the city's Deliberative Council (Concejo Deliberante) served as the only democratically-elected local authority.[3]
In the 1990s during the presidency of Carlos Menem, calls for Buenos Aires to become politically autonomous grew, and the issue was one of the main points of the 1993 Pact of Olivos, which led to the 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina.[4] The 1994 amendments (specifically article 129 of the new constitution) granted autonomy to the city, allowing it to vote for its own mayor for the first time in history.[5][6][7]
Candidates
[edit]| Coalition | Mayoral candidate (party) Prior political experience |
Vice mayoral candidate (party) Prior political experience |
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Fernando de la Rúa (UCR) National Senator (1992–1996) |
Enrique Olivera (UCR) National Deputy (1991–1995) |
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| FREPASO | Norberto La Porta (PSD) City Councillor (1989–1993) |
Aníbal Ibarra (FG) City Councillor (1991–1996) |
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Jorge Domínguez (PJ) Mayor of Buenos Aires (1994–1996) |
Ana Kessler (PJ) National Deputy (1993–1996) |
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Gustavo Béliz (ND) Minister of the Interior (1992–1993) |
Guillermo Francos (ND) City Councillor (1985–1993) |
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Results
[edit]Chief of Government
[edit]| Candidate | Running mate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Fernando de la Rúa | Enrique Olivera | Radical Civic Union–FPDJ–PGI–PSoDe–SO | 753,335 | 39.89 | |
| Norberto La Porta | Aníbal Ibarra | FREPASO | 500,542 | 26.50 | |
| Jorge Domínguez | Ana Kessler | Justicialist Party–Ucedé–PPDLJ | 351,746 | 18.62 | |
| Gustavo Béliz | Guillermo Francos | New Leadership–Centre Alliance | 247,500 | 13.10 | |
| Lía Méndez | Liliana Beatriz Ambrosio | Humanist Party | 9,239 | 0.49 | |
| Carlos Zamorano | Antonio Sofia | Front for the Unity of the People's Left | 7,650 | 0.41 | |
| Santos Russomando | Elba Juana Martens | Authentic Socialist Party | 5,390 | 0.29 | |
| Pablo Rieznik | Catalina Guagnini | Workers' Unity Front | 5,064 | 0.27 | |
| Susana Sacchi | Gustavo de Biase | Socialist Workers' Party | 4,340 | 0.23 | |
| Laura Enda Marrone | Marcos Roberto Britos | Movement for Socialism | 3,811 | 0.20 | |
| Total | 1,888,617 | 100.00 | |||
| Valid votes | 1,888,617 | 97.32 | |||
| Invalid votes | 15,650 | 0.81 | |||
| Blank votes | 36,332 | 1.87 | |||
| Total votes | 1,940,599 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,556,489 | 75.91 | |||
| Source: [8] | |||||
Legislature
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| FREPASO | 653,943 | 34.28 | 25 | |
| Radical Civic Union | 513,328 | 26.91 | 19 | |
| Justicialist Party | 283,643 | 14.87 | 11 | |
| New Leadership | 154,086 | 8.08 | 5 | |
| Centre Alliance | 90,645 | 4.75 | 0 | |
| Union of the Democratic Centre | 57,234 | 3.00 | 0 | |
| Pensioners' Developmentalist Progressive Front | 50,039 | 2.62 | 0 | |
| Party of the Intermediate Generation | 22,848 | 1.20 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 19,654 | 1.03 | 0 | |
| Solidarity | 18,436 | 0.97 | 0 | |
| Humanist Party | 9,821 | 0.51 | 0 | |
| Unity of the People's Left | 8,777 | 0.46 | 0 | |
| Pensioners' Political Power | 6,102 | 0.32 | 0 | |
| Authentic Socialist Party | 5,744 | 0.30 | 0 | |
| Workers' Unity Front | 4,912 | 0.26 | 0 | |
| Socialist Workers' Party | 4,366 | 0.23 | 0 | |
| Movement for Socialism | 3,872 | 0.20 | 0 | |
| Total | 1,907,450 | 100.00 | 60 | |
| Valid votes | 1,907,450 | 97.19 | ||
| Invalid votes | 15,595 | 0.79 | ||
| Blank votes | 39,509 | 2.01 | ||
| Total votes | 1,962,554 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,556,489 | 76.77 | ||
| Source: [8] | ||||
See also
[edit]- Pact of Olivos
- 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina
- List of mayors and chiefs of government of Buenos Aires
References
[edit]- ^ Guadalupe, Graciela (1 July 1996). "De la Rúa en toda la Capital". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ^ Landau, Matías (December 2021). "Ser Jefe de Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: la jerarquización de un cargo político y su impacto en la Argentina reciente" [Being "Jefe de Gobierno" of the City of Buenos Aires: The Empowerment of A Political Post and Its Impact in Recent-Time Argentina]. Pléyade (Santiago) (in Spanish). 28. International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies. doi:10.4067/S0719-36962021000200140. ISSN 0719-3696.
- ^ Astarloa, Gabriel M. (30 November 2023). "La autonomía de la ciudad, un proceso en demorada construcción". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Moreno, Edgardo R. (15 February 2021). "Pacto de Olivos, ¿el último gran acuerdo?". La Voz del Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Landau, Matías (2024). "La reforma constitucional de 1994 y los dilemas de la autonomía porteña" [The Constitutional Reform of 1994 and the Dilemmas of Buenos Aires City Autonomy]. Revista Argentina de Ciencia Política (in Spanish). 1 (33): 219-239. ISSN 2683-9032. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ "30 Años de Autonomía de la Ciudad". buenosaires.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ Landau, Matías (9 May 2021). "La autonomía imposible". El Cohete a la Luna (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Escrutinio definitivo: elecciones para Jefe de Gobierno y estatuyentes 30 de junio de 1996". buenosaires.gob.ar (in Spanish). Dirección General de Estadística y Censos. 1996. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
External links
[edit]- Electoral Tribunal of Buenos Aires (in Spanish)