President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her vice-presidential running mate Amado Boudou, candidates for the Victory Front party, won a sweeping victory this afternoon in the presidential race with over 54% of the vote according to preliminary official figures based on 15.5% of polling stations.
Last August the team won slightly over 50% of the vote in the primary elections. Today, Fernández beat the prior record holder Raúl Alfonsín, for highest percentage of votes in a presidential election. Alfonsín, whose son was in the race today for president, won after the last military dictatorship in 1983, with 51% of the vote.
None of the candidates for the opposition in today’s race came close to achieving the votes necessary to force Fernández to a run-off election. Hermes Binner (Ample Progressive Front) came in second place with16.98% of the vote. Ricardo Alfonsín (Union for Social Development party) ended in third place with 13.21%. Alberto Rodríguez Saá (Federal Convergance party) finished fourth with 7.33%. Eduardo Duhualde (Popular Union party) came in fifth with 5.66%. Jorge Altamira (Left Front Party) won just 2.12% and Elisa Carrió (Civic Coalition party) finished in last place with 1.66% of the vote.
Governor of Buenos Aires Province Daniel Scioli beat candidate Francisco de Narvaez by more than 40 points with 57.6%. Narvaez won just 19.8%. The candidate of the Broad Progressive Front (FAP), Margarita Stolibizer, earned just 9%.
Over 29 million residents came out today to cast their ballots in the elections. Fernández will hold office until December, 2015.
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