Electoral map: Sergio Massa reversed the result of the PASO in eight provinces

Sergio Massa and Javier Milei will face each other on November 19 in the runoff that will define who will be the next president of the Nation. The Union for the Homeland candidate won an important victory last night by winning with 36.7% (9.6 million votes) over Javier Milei, who garnered 30% of the support. The candidate of Juntos por el Cambio, Patricia Bullrich, was displaced to third place and was left out of the final battle. The victory of the Union for the Homeland candidate is largely explained by the significant recovery he experienced in several districts after the PASO elections on August 13, when Milei surprised by becoming the candidate with the most votes. Since then, the current Minister of Economy managed to add more than 3 million votes to the total he had achieved in the internal election with Juan Grabois, while the libertarian only captured about 700,000 new voters. Massa spoke: “The crack is dead and a new stage begins”How the vote was distributed at the country levelIf in the PASO the political map had been dyed purple, this Sunday it was once again invaded by a blue that reflects the rebound of the ruling party. With 98.5% of the polling stations counted, the official comeback was verified throughout the country. He managed to reverse the result in eight districts – Tierra del Fuego; Santa Cruz; Rio Negro; La Pampa; Entre Ríos; La Rioja; Corrientes and Tucumán-; It added more than one million votes in the province of Buenos Aires, which contributed more than 40% of the votes it obtained at the national level to the ruling party and relegated JxC to third place in territories that are – or will be – led by the opposition coalition. The libertarian force revalidated first place in ten of the 16 provinces it won – in the presidential debate – in the PASO, but its difficulty in incorporating new voters made it fall back to second place in six districts. Far from the yellow stripe that in 2019 dominated the center of the country, and despite adding governors like never before in its short history, JxC only managed to be the most voted force in the City of Buenos Aires.

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