2007 Buenos Aires City elections
{{Infobox election
| country = Buenos Aires
| flag_year = state
| module = {{Infobox election
| embed = yes
| election_date = 3 June 2007 (first round)
24 June 2007 (second round)
| turnout = 70.01% (first round)
68.38% (second round)
| previous_election = 2003 Buenos Aires City elections
| previous_year = 2003
| next_election = 2011 Buenos Aires City elections
| next_year = 2011
| type = presidential
| election_name = Mayoral election
| image1 = Mauricio Macri Foto de Prensa.jpg
| nominee1 = Mauricio Macri
| popular_vote1 = 1,007,729
| percentage1 = 60.94%
| party1 = CpC
| alliance1 = Republican Proposal
| color1 = {{party color|Republican Proposal}}
| running_mate1 = Gabriela Michetti
| image2 = Daniel Filmus (cropped).jpg
| nominee2 = Daniel Filmus
| party2 = Justicialist Party
| alliance2 = Front for Victory
| color2 = {{party color|Front for Victory}}
| popular_vote2 = 645,779
| percentage2 = 39.06%
| running_mate2 = Carlos Heller
| title = Chief of Government
| before_election = Jorge Telerman
| before_party = PJ
| after_election = Mauricio Macri
| map = 250px
| map_caption = Second round results by electoral circunscription
| module = {{Infobox legislative election
| embed = yes
| type = legislative
| election_name = City Legislature
| previous_election = 2005
| next_election = 2009
| seats_for_election = 30 out of 60 seats in the City Legislature
| election_date = 3 June 2007
| turnout = 73.15%
| leader1 = Mauricio Macri
| party1 = Republican Proposal
| percentage1 = 44.32
| last_election1 = 13
| seats1 = 15
| leader2 = Aníbal Ibarra
| party2 = DpBA
| color2 = orange
| last_election2 = New
| seats2 = 4
| percentage2 = 14.44
| leader3 = Daniel Filmus
| party3 = Front for Victory
| last_election3 = 7
| seats3 = 3
| percentage3 = 10.76
| leader4 = Jorge Telerman
| party4 = MBA
| percentage4 = 9.95
| color4 = #00A0E6
| last_election4 = New
| seats4 = 3
| leader5 = Elisa Carrió
| party5 = CC
| color5 = {{party color|Civic Coalition}}
| seats5 = 2
| percentage5 = 8.59
| leader6 = Patricia Walsh
| party6 = MST
| color6 = darkred
| last_election6 = 0
| seats6 = 1
| percentage6 = 4.04
| leader7 = Claudio Lozano
| party7 = BAPT
| color7 = purple
| last_election7 = 0
| seats7 = 1
| percentage7 = 2.97
| map =
| map_size =
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General elections were held in the City of Buenos Aires on 3 June 2007 to elect the Chief of Government (mayor) and half of the City Legislature to four-year terms. As no mayoral candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held on 31 July 2011, in which Mauricio Macri, of the Commitment to Change (CpC) party, defeated Daniel Filmus of the Front for Victory (FPV) coalition to be elected as Chief of Government of Buenos Aires.
Incumbent Jorge Telerman, who had assumed office just over a year prior to the election following the impeachment of Aníbal Ibarra over repercussions from the 2004 Cromañón nightclub fire, sought re-election but was defeated in the first round.
Background
The 2003 elections in Buenos Aires resulted in the re-election of progressive former prosecutor and mayor Aníbal Ibarra, of the Broad Front, in the run-off against centre-right businessman and former Boca Juniors president Mauricio Macri, of Commitment to Change (CpC).{{citation needed|date= March 2025}}
Just a year later, however, the Cromañón nightclub fire sent shockwaves through the political establishment of Buenos Aires and led to Ibarra's suspension from office in 2005 and eventual impeachment in 2006, amid accusations of corruption and negligence.{{cite news|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/la-legislatura-destituyo-a-ibarra-nid786946/|work=La Nación|title=La Legislatura destituyó a Ibarra|date=8 March 2006|access-date=18 March 2025|last=Castro|first=Ángeles|language=es}} Ibarra was replaced by his deputy, Jorge Telerman.{{cite news|url=https://www.infobae.com/2006/03/13/243105-con-menciones-cromanon-telerman-asumio-la-jefatura-portena/|work=Infobae|title=Con menciones a Cromañón, Telerman asumió la jefatura porteña|date=13 March 2006|access-date=18 March 2025|language=es}}
As the existing political alliances had crumbled in the aftermath of Cromañón, Telerman sought re-election on the Civic Coalition ticket, with former mayor Enrique Olivera as running mate,{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-83140-2007-04-11.html|work=Página 12|title="El camino es la coalición"|last=Rodríguez|first=Santiago|date=11 April 2007|access-date=18 March 2025|language=es}} while Macri and his CpC party, now part of the Republican Proposal alliance, geared up for a second attempt at the mayorship.{{cite news|url=https://www.letrap.com.ar/opinion/breve-historia-del-pro-y-el-dolor-ya-no-ser-hay-futuro-n5407326|work=Letra P|title=Breve historia del PRO y el dolor de ya no ser, ¿hay futuro?|last=Sabanés|first=Lisandro|date=19 March 2024|access-date=18 March 2025|language=es}} The peronist Front for Victory nominated sociologist and national education minister Daniel Filmus, deputised by labour leader Carlos Heller.{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-82754-2007-04-04.html|work=Página 12|title=Se consumó la pareja de Filmus y Heller para el gobierno porteño|date=4 April 2007|access-date=18 March 2025|language=es}}
Candidates
| class="vertical-align-top wikitable"
! scope=colgroup colspan=2 | Coalition ! scope=colgroup | Mayoral candidate (party) ! scope=colgroup | Vice mayoral candidate (party) ! scope=col | Parties |
| style="background:{{party color|Republican Proposal}} |
| style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3" | File:Propuesta Republicana.png | Mauricio Macri (CPC) | Gabriela Michetti (CPC) | |
| style="background:{{party color|Front for Victory}} |
| style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3" | File:Logo Frente para la Victoria.svg | Daniel Filmus (PJ) | Carlos Heller (PSOL) | |
| style=background:#00A0E6 |
| style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3" | File:Más Buenos Aires.png | Jorge Telerman (PJ) | Enrique Olivera (ARI) | |
| style=background:darkred |
| style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3" | File:Mst-logo.png | Patricia Walsh (MST) | Héctor Bidonde (MST) | |
| style=background:purple |
| style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3" | 75px | Claudio Lozano (BAPT) | María América González (BAPT) |
|
Results
=Chief of Government=
{{Election results
|cand1=Mauricio Macri|vp1=Gabriela Michetti|party1=PRO Alliance|votes1=798292|votes1_2=1007729
|cand2=Daniel Filmus|vp2=Carlos Heller|party2=Front for Victory–Dialogue for Buenos Aires|votes2=414205|votes2_2=645779
|cand3=Jorge Telerman|vp3=Enrique Olivera|party3=More for Buenos Aires–Civic Coalition|color3=#00A0E6|votes3=360734
|cand4=Patricia Walsh|vp4=Héctor Bidonde|party4=Workers' Socialist Movement|color4=darkred|votes4=51465
|cand5=Claudio Lozano|vp5=María América González|party5=Buenos Aires for All|color5=purple|votes5=47505
|cand6=Lía Méndez|vp6=Néstor Jorge Avella|party6=Humanist Party|votes6=16346
|cand7=Marcelo Ramal|vp7=Vanina Biasi|party7=Workers' Party|votes7=15623
|cand8=Guillermo Cherashny|vp8=Miguel Ángel Ramón Gómez|party8=Porteño Consensus Party|color8=#D3D3D3|votes8=6471
|cand9=Christian Castillo|vp9=Carlos Artacho|party9=Socialist Workers' Party|votes9=6151
|cand10=Jorge Selser|vp10=Adrián Camps|party10=Authentic Socialist Party|votes10=5925
|cand11=José Castillo|vp11=Jorge Guidobono Rey|party11=Revolutionary Socialist Left Front|votes11=5769
|cand12=Héctor Heberling|vp12=Andrea Fabiana Salmini|party12=Socialist Advance Movement|color12=red|votes12=3317
|cand13=Rubén Oscar Saboulard|vp13=Héctor Guillermo Bullrich|party13=Independent Justice and Dignity Movement|color13=#AEC306|votes13=2949
|cand14=Enrique Venturino|vp14=Carlos Hoyos|party14=Citizens' Front|votes14=2383
|cand15=Juan Carlos Beica|vp15=Esilda Raquel Bustos|party15=Socialist Convergence|color15=red|votes15=2200
|cand16=Javier Ernesto Brodsky|vp16=Arturo José Pécora|party16=Popular Concertation|color16=#d3d3d3|votes16=2028
|cand17=Juan Ricardo Mussa|vp17=María Daniel Llanos|party17=Citizen Action|color17=#d3d3d3|votes17=1810
|cand18=Graciela Patané|vp18=Hilda Orlinda Oates|party18=The Movement|color18={{party color|People's Countryside Party}}|votes18=1183
|blank=30347|blank2=53334
|invalid=27132|invalid2=52045
|electorate=2573731|electorate2=2573731
|source={{cite web|url=https://www.tsjbaires.gov.ar/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=2153&cid=36&Itemid=49|website=tsjbaires.gov.ar|title=Elecciones 2007|archive-date=25 June 2022|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625102200/https://www.tsjbaires.gov.ar/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=2153&cid=36&Itemid=49|language=es}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tsjbaires.gov.ar/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=2162&cid=36&Itemid=49|publisher=Tribunal Superior de Justicia|website=tsjbaires.gov.ar|title=Elecciones 2007 (segunda vuelta)|archive-date=25 June 2022|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625102041/https://www.tsjbaires.gov.ar/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=2162&cid=36&Itemid=49|language=es}}
}}
=Legislature=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Party ! rowspan="2" |Votes ! rowspan="2" |% ! colspan="3" |Seats |
| Not up
!Won !Total |
|---|
| bgcolor={{party color|Republican Proposal}} |
| align="left" |Republican Proposal Alliance |768,748 |44.32 |13 |15 |28 |
| bgcolor="orange" |
| align="left" |Dialogue for Buenos Aires |250,471 |14.44 |New |5 |5 |
| bgcolor={{party color|Front for Victory}} |
| align="left" |Front for Victory |172,642 |10.76 |7 |3 |8 |
| bgcolor="#00A0E6 " |
| align="left" |More Buenos Aires |227,430 |9.95 |New |3 |3 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Civic Coalition}}" |
| align="left" |Civic Coalition |148,899 |8.59 |8 |2 |10 |
| bgcolor="darkred" |
| align="left" |Socialist Workers' Movement |70,065 |4.04 |0 |1 |1 |
| bgcolor="purple" |
| align="left" |Buenos Aires for All |51,506 |2.97 |0 |1 |1 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Workers' Party (Argentina)}}" |
| align="left" |Workers' Party |18,927 |1.09 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Humanist Party (Argentina)}}" |
| align="left" |Humanist Party |17,981 |1.04 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Authentic Socialist Party (Argentina)}}" |
| align="left" |Authentic Socialist Party |7,253 |0.42 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina)}}" |
| align="left" |Socialist Workers' Party |6,585 |0.38 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="{{party color|Socialist Left (Argentina)}}" |
| align="left" |Revolutionary Socialist Left Front |6,484 |0.37 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="#D3D3D3" |
| align="left" |Porteño Consensus Party |6,241 |0.36 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="red" |
| align="left" |Movement for Socialism |3,532 |0.20 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="#AEC306" |
| align="left" |Independent Justice and Dignity Movement |3,191 |0.18 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="yellow" |
| align="left" |Movement for Dignity and Independence |2,818 |0.16 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="#D3D3D3" |
| align="left" |Porteño Commitment |2,789 |0.16 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="red" |
| align="left" |Socialist Convergence |2,650 |0.15 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="red" |
| align="left" |Socialist Convergence |2,650 |0.15 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="#D3D3D3" |
| align="left" |Citizen Action |1,965 |0.11 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="#D3D3D3" |
| align="left" |Call to Social Integration |1,431 |0.08 |0 |0 |0 |
| bgcolor="yellow"|
| align="left" | The Movement |1,247 |0.07 |0 |0 |0 |
| colspan="2" align="left" |Blank votes
|40,138 |– |– |– |– |
| colspan="2" align="left" |Invalid votes
|27,303 |– |– |– |– |
| colspan="2" align="left" |Total
|1,801,835 |100 | rowspan="2" |30 | rowspan="2" |30 | rowspan="2" |60 |
| colspan="2" align="left" |Registered voters/turnout
|2,573,731 |70.01 |
| colspan="7" align="left" |Source: |
See also
References
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External links
- [https://electoralcaba.gob.ar/ Electoral Tribunal of Buenos Aires] {{in lang|es}}