The results of the elections for mayor of Río Cuarto

This Sunday the municipal election was held in Río Cuarto to define the next mayor or mayor of the alternate capital. There were 10 candidates in the race (in addition, 19 councilors and 4 accounts tribune were elected).

Starting at 6 p.m., the provisional scrutiny began and it is expected that after 8 p.m. the first results will be available with the winners.

To keep in mind: voting was done with a Single Paper Ballot.

From the Municipal Electoral Board they indicated that there were 138,880 people authorized to vote. The first unofficial information indicates that participation could have reached 55%.

Past midday, The most notable thing had been the little participation of the neighbors. So much so that the candidates themselves called to vote.

It is worth remembering that the precedent is very bad: four years ago, Only 49.9% of the voters went to votebetween the rainy day, the fatigue with politics and the pandemic.

Another notable fact of this election was that, for the first time, Peronism presented itself divided, with two strong candidates.

The candidates in the Río Cuarto elections

1. Gustavo Dovis (Humanist Party)

2. Guillermo de Rivas (We do together for Río Cuarto)

3. Rolando Hurtado (PRO)

4. Andrea Casero (Neighborhood Meeting)

5. Nicolas Forlani (Respect Viva Río Cuarto)

6. Lorena Rojas (Left Front FIT Unit)

7. Adriana Nazario (The Strength of the Southern Empire)

8. Gonzalo Parodi (First River Fourth)

9. Pablo Carrizo (Developmental Consciousness Party)

10. Mario Lamberghini (Libertarian Party)

History: the results of the Río Cuarto elections

Since the return of democracy, Río Cuarto went to the polls 10 times to elect the city’s mayor. Radicalism won in 7, and the rest were from Peronism (including the last two votes).

In total, five men managed to reach the “Sillón de Mójica” in the last 41 years.

In 1983, the first post-dictatorship mayor was the radical Miguel Ángel “Chicharra” Abellawho reached 45.53% of the votes, and surpassed the Peronist Esteban Llamosas (father of the current mayor), who accounted for 39%.

Abella won re-election in 1987, when he obtained 47.18%; compared to Eduardo Di Cola, from Peronism, who finished with 42%.

In 1991, Benigno “Tonio” Rins, also a radical and Abella’s secretary, became the new mayor. He achieved it with 43.3% of the votes. In that election, he beat the Peronist Antonio Candini, who could barely reach 34%.

Rins, like his predecessor, ran for a second term and won. He achieved it with 47.35% to defeat Humberto Roggero, a historic Peronist, who added 39.44%.

The first Peronist to end the radical era was Alberto Cantero, who in 1999, and thanks to the “delasotista” wave in the province, obtained 55.12% of the votes. He beat Gonzalo Losada, from the Alliance (UCR and Frepaso), who totaled 20.19%.

But Cantero did not suffer the same fate as the other mayors: he ran for re-election, and lost. His “executioner” was Rins himselfwho returned in 2004 to win with 46.38% (Cantero was very close, with 44%).

Juan Jure. (Jose Gabriel Hernandez)

Juan Jure, also a radical, was the next mayor of Río Cuarto. He won in 2008, thanks to 49.25% of the votes. Peronism, that time, made one of its worst choices: 30.3% thanks to Luis Sánchez.

Jure also won on his second chance, with 47.8% in 2012. He beat Miguel Minardi, from the PJ, who was able to reach 43.8%.

But in 2016, with the help of Juan Manuel Llamosas, Peronism once again cut the radical streak. He did it by winning with 46.5% against Eduardo Yuni, from Cambiemos.

Llamosas would make history four years later: he became the first Peronist to be re-elected. In 2020, he achieved, with just 41.02%, four more years of power. He beat the radical Gabriel Abril, who added 35%.