2023-06-25 22:14:00
At 6:00 p.m., the elections for governor, vice president, legislators, and tribunes of accounts in Córdoba closed, and now the wait will last until approximately 9:00 p.m., when it is estimated that the provincial Electoral Court will begin to announce the first results. officers.
But the first revealing data, and one that has an impact on the contest, is the few people who went to the polls in Córdoba.
According to the electoral judge Marta Vidal, the participation would not have reached 62% of the register, which means the lowest figure in history in a vote for governor of the province.
If the data on such low participation is confirmed, it would mean that approximately 1,159,000 people did not go to vote in Córdoba.
An hour following the elections closed, leaders of Together for Change came out to complain regarding a possible problem with the transmission of the results.
Marcos Ferrer, the campaign manager for Together for Change, said that there are delays in the provisional vote count generated by connectivity failures and delays in the arrival of technical equipment at each school.
Elections Córdoba 2023: expectation for the results
The electoral competition in the province had 11 formulas in the Single Ballot, with two candidates with real chances of winning: Martín Llaryora, from Hacemos Unidos por Córdoba, and Luis Juez, from Together for Change.
Throughout the day, both from the bunker of the ruling party and the opposition, “exit” polls circulated showing different results and which were updated as the hours passed.
The supposed public opinion surveys reached the phones of journalists, leaders and even prosecutors from the forces that distributed them early on.
As is known, the Electoral Justice prohibits its dissemination until three hours following the elections. In this case, since the results are very different, they do not even allow inferring trends.
The results can be followed at this link.
Participation in the Córdoba 2023 elections
As said, the participation of this Sunday was the lowest in an electoral appointment for governor in Córdoba.
The highest had been in 1983, when 88.35% went to the polls. The lowest – until today – occurred in 2007 when it fell to 72.01%.
In 2019, in the last municipal election, participation had been 72.78%.
Elections for governor in the Province of Córdoba (Ramiro Pereyera/ La Voz)
Governors of Cordoba
Since the return of democracy, Córdoba has had 11 elections for governor of Córdoba, with four proper names for that position: Eduardo Angeloz (three times), Ramón Mestre (once), José Manuel de la Sota (three) and Juan Schiaretti (three times). ).
As of next December 10, there will be a new name that will break, above all, the last 24 years of the political partnership between De la Sota and Schiaretti, who have shared power since 1999.
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