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s were held in the

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on 22 October 2023, coinciding with the general election being held nationwide. The

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(mayor), half of the

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and all 150 members of the communal boards were elected to four-year terms. In the mayoral election,

Jorge Macri Jorge Macri (born 5 March 1965) is an Argentine politician who is the Chief of Government of Buenos Aires since 7 December 2023, and previously served as Minister of Government of Buenos Aires from 2021 to 2023. He is the cousin of former presiden ...

, of the ruling

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party, won in the first round of voting with 49.67% of the vote. According to the city's constitution, a candidate for Chief of Government must achieve over 50% of the vote in order to win in the first round, but the second-most voted candidate,

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, dropped out of the race for the second round and ceded victory to Macri. This was the seventh general election in the City of Buenos Aires since the adoption of the 1996 Constitution, which granted autonomy to the city and allowed it to vote for its own Chief of Government. It was also the second election in which the Single Electronic Ballot (''Boleta Única Electrónica'', BUE) voting system was implemented, after

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Background

The

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in Buenos Aires had resulted in the re-election of incumbent Chief of Government

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta Horacio Rodríguez-Larreta (; born 29 October 1965) is an Argentine economist, politician and the former Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate ...

with a record 55.90% of the vote in the first round. Rodríguez Larreta's party,

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(PRO) and its

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alliance also remained the largest force in the

. On 13 April 2023, Rodríguez Larreta issued a decree making the 2023 elections in Buenos Aires concurrent with the national general election. Rodríguez Larreta was constitutionally barred from running for re-election a second time, and instead launched his presidential run. This was the second election in which the Single Electronic Ballot (''Boleta Única Electrónica'', BUE) voting system was implemented, after

. It was, however, the first time the BUE system was implemented in a local election concurrent with a national election, which meant two different voting systems were used in the same election day.

Candidates

Opinion polling

Results

Primaries

Mayoral primaries

Chief of Government

Results by commune

Legislature

References

External links

Electoral Tribunal of Buenos Aires
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