This September 12, the primary elections were held.
See how the provinces and the candidates that won were left.
09/12/2021 7:22 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/12/2021 7:22 PM
The results of the PASO 2021 Elections in Argentina
will mark who are the candidates who will compete in the next legislative elections to be held in November, after this Sunday citizens approached the voting centers to cast their vote in the open, simultaneous primaries and mandatory.
On this occasion,
Clarín offers an interactive and updated live map, minute by minute, with the results of each district
and the winners in each of them, as the scrutiny progresses and the official data is published.
In the two rounds of national elections there is a registry of 34,330,557 citizens, according to data published by the National Electoral Chamber (CNE).
That number represents an increase of 7.06% with respect to the voters in the 2019 Elections, which at that time were 32,064,323 citizens able to vote.
On this civic day,
Argentines voted for national legislators in the elections called Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory or, for its acronym, STEP
.
In this instance, a candidate for a deputy or senator of the citizen's preference is chosen, which allows the ballots to be formed to participate in the general elections in November.
Elections 2021 Results: the live map with who won in the PASO district by district.
Photo: DPA.
Primary elections are a method of candidate selection
, used in various countries, for national elective public offices.
The PASO are "
open
" because it is not necessary to be affiliated with a political party to vote for one of its candidates.
It is open to the entire electorate.
In turn, the primary elections are "
simultaneous
" because on the same day all the groups decide their pre-candidacies jointly.
And, in addition, they are
mandatory
for all citizens entitled to vote.
Many analysts consider the PASO as a great "party intern" as well as a "great national poll" where a political X-ray of Argentina can be obtained. These data not only give conformation to the offers of the dark room of the primaries, but also to the political scene compared to the general ones of November.
