Argentina 2007: Presidential Election.
Candidates with more than 1% of the vote:
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner/ Julio César Cobos (FPV) 45.29%
Elisa Carrió/ Rubén Giustiniani (CC) 23.04%Roberto Lavagna/ Gerardo Morales (Concertación UNA) 16.91%Alberto Rodríguez Saá/ Héctor Maya (FREJULI) 7.64%Fernando Solanas/ Ángel Francisco Cardelli (PSA) 1.58%
Ricardo López Murphy/ Esteban Bullrich (Recrear) 1.43%
Jorge Sobisch/ Jorge Asís (MPU) 1.4%
The media narrative emphasized that CFdK lost in the main cities of the country. Elisa Carrió won a plurality in the first (Buenos Aires) and in the third (Rosario, Santa Fe) main cities of the country and Roberto Lavagna in the second (Córdoba). Evidently, that narrative didn't take into account the populous cities of Greater Buenos Aires (GBA) nor the rest of the country. The most populated municiplity in GBA, La Matanza, has more inhabitants than the city of Córdoba. Most of provincial capitals went to
La Presidenta. Some results in urban areas:
Greater Buenos Aires* (pop. 9.75 million, INDEC 2010):
Cristina Fernández 47.09%;
Elisa Carrió 23.14%;
Roberto Lavagna 12.75%;
Rodríguez Saá 6.28%.
* 24 municipalities in Buenos Aires province, excluding the City of Buenos Aires.
City of Buenos Aires (2.9 million)
Elisa Carrió 37.77%;
Cristina Fernández 23.78%;
Roberto Lavagna 18.39%;
Rodríguez Saá 8.31%;
Fernando Solanas 4.09%;
López Murphy 3.96%.
Córdoba (1.3 million):
Roberto Lavagna 35.31%;
Cristina Fernández 23.84%;
Elisa Carrió 19%;
Rodríguez Saá 14.69%.
Rosario (Sante Fe, 1.2 million):
Elisa Carrió 41.9%;
Cristina Fernández 33.12%;
Roberto Lavagna 11.21%;
Rodríguez Saá 6.46%.
La Plata (BsAS, 0.85 million):
Elisa Carrió 36.33%;
Cristina Fernández 34.02%; Roberto Lavagna 14.03%;
Rodríguez Saá 6.41%.
Mar del Plata (BsAS, General Pueyrredón department, 0.6):
Elisa Carrió 39.07%;
Crisitna Fernández 32.9%;
Roberto Lavagna 13.55%;
Rodríguez Saá 6.95%San Miguel de Tucumán (Tucuman, 0.5)
Cristina Fernández 54.31%;
Roberto Lavagna 19.72%;
Elisa Carrió 15.85%;
Rodríguez Saá 3.41%.
Salta (0.5):
Cristina Fernández 63.27%;
Roberto Lavagna 18.37%;
Elisa Carrió 10.89%;
Rodríguez Saá 2.07%.
It's a pity the lack of homogeneous data, because I downloaded the provincial results from the official website and there are results of men's and women's booths in many districts, but not in the most important, BsAs province. Also, I had to calculate myself the results in Santa Cruz province by department from the crappy provincial site (they have results collected by localities or groups of them and it seems they don't know how to calculate vote percentages). Anyway it seems that Elisa Carrió and her Civic Coalition/Socialist ticket gathered great support among urban middle classes and was preferred by women in greater percentages than she was by men. Santa Fe province was tightly contested between CFdK and Carrió, the first winning the masculine vote and the second the feminine. The Lavagna ticket was a strange coalition between supporters of the Peronist Lavagna (former minister of Economy) and the 'official' UCR (
radicals K backed Kirchner with the `traitor' Cobos).
