Elections 2025, live: the latest news on the national legislative elections today, October 26

Elections 2025, live: the latest news on the national legislative elections today, October 26

While 127 seats are at stake in the Chamber of Deputies, there will only be 24 vacancies in the Senate.

This Sunday, October 26, the legislative elections 2025 in Argentina will define what the new composition of the National Congress. From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., citizens will be able to cast their votes. For the first time, the format of the Single Paper Ballot (BUP), method that was approved with the intention of reducing public spending in national elections.

For the ruling party, the objective will be to captivate the third of voters, which brings together the undecided, with the hope of adding the greatest number of seats in favor in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate. It is stipulated that Freedom Advances I would paint several seats purple, but not enough to not depend on allies and need agreements.

In the case of Homeland Forcethese elections would also be crucial. The results would not only give them an overview of the situation in which Peronism finds themselves at a political level, but could also be the basis that they would use to rebuild themselves for the future 2027 presidential elections.

In the same way, the surprise could be in the performance of United Provincesthe party made up of the governors of Córdoba, Santa Fe, Corrientes, Jujuy and Chubut, with the support of anti-libertarian and anti-Kirchnerist sectors. It will be the first election in which they will compete, after stating that their intention is to grow at a political level and have the next president in their ranks.

The Argentines who vote for the world

An Argentine citizen voting in
An Argentine citizen voting at the Argentine embassy in Madrid, Spain. (EFE/ Sergio Pérez)

The first tables enabled to participate in the 2025 legislative elections opened in both Asian and Asian countries. China, Japan and Singaporeand in Oceania, such as Australia and New Zealand.

Regarding Europe, there was a good movement of voters in the national embassy located in Madrid, Spain.

The regulations allow people with a registered address outside the country before April 19, 2025 participate in the election. According to official information from the Ministry of the Interior, lResidents abroad may vote in person at the assigned consulate or embassy. depending on the place of residence or they can opt for the postal method.

An Argentine citizen voting in
An Argentine citizen voting at the Argentine Embassy in Singapore.
The elections are also taking place
The elections also take place in the diplomatic headquarters of Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan.

To vote in person, voters must have a foreign address recorded on the Argentine DNI. In-person voting will take place on October 26 between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in the consular representation or embassy that corresponds to the district of residence. You must consult the register in advance at www.padron.gob.ar to know the exact location. The vote that is counted is assigned to the last district where the voter resided in the country and, in case of absence of registration, the place of birth is used.

Where and at what time the main leaders of the different spaces vote

  • Mariano Recalde: will vote at 9 at School No. 15 Arzobispo Mariano Espinosa, in Barracas: Av. Montes de Oca 807;
  • William Francos: It will do so at 9 in the Santo Tomas Moro building of the UCA, located on Avenida Alicia Moreau de Justo at 1400, CABA;
  • Diego Santilli: at 9:30 at EP School No. 11, located at French 573, Los Troncos del Talar (Tigre);
  • Martin Lousteau: at 9:30 at the San Francisco Javier Higher Education Center, in the Palermo neighborhood: Jorge Luis Borges 1851;
  • Cristian Ritondo: at 10 at the M de Guadalupe school, in General Pacheco, Tigre: Avenida de los Constituciónntes 2824;
  • Jorge Taiana: at 10 at the María Santísima de la Luz School located at Miguel de Azcuénaga 1870, Vicente López;
  • Axel Kicillof: at 10:30 at the “Floreal Ferrera” Higher Health School in La Plata, on 4th Street at 962, corner 51;
  • Javier Milei: at 11 at the UTN, located at Medrano 951 (Almagro);
  • Federico Sturzenegger: at 11:30 at the Escuela República de Bolivia, in the Barracas neighborhood: Hornos 530;
  • Alejandro Fargosi: at 1 p.m. at the Carlos Pellegrini School, located at Marcelo T. De Alvear 1851, CABA;
  • Patricia Bullrich: at 2 p.m. in the La Rural Auditorium, in the Palermo neighborhood: Santa Fe and Sarmiento avenues.

Jorge Taiana will meet with Cristina Kirchner at San José 1111 and plans to speak before the closing of the vote

It will be the second time that the candidate for national deputy for the Province of Buenos Aires meets the president of the PJ. After the visit, the former Minister of Defense will go to the Fuerza Patria bunker

The candidate for national deputy
The candidate for national deputy will meet again with the former president before knowing the results

With the legislative campaign over, Jorge Taianathe candidate for national deputy of Homeland Forcewill meet with the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in his apartment located in San José 1111in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitution. The Peronist leader is expected to appear at 3:30 p.m., when the vote will still be in process.

Video: the step by step to vote with the Single Paper Ballot today, October 26 in the 2025 elections

This Sunday the system will debut nationwide. The country will renew half of the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate

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What is voted on October 26?

This Sunday October 26 The national legislative elections will be held in 2025. They are elected 127 national deputies (half of the Lower House), and 24 senators (one third of the Upper House). Citizens throughout the country who are qualified to vote in the electoral roll They will elect deputies, but only the voters of eight districts will elect senators.

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Scenes of boxing in Rosario, pilgrimage in the hotel lobby and behind the scenes of the Macri cousins ​​on the eve of the elections. Versions of meetings from yesterday morning. Kicillof’s cabinet and Cristina Kirchner’s confessions

Karina Milei, Cristian Ritondo, Diego
Karina Milei, Cristian Ritondo, Diego Santilli, Guillermo Montenegro, Sebastián Pareja and Lule Menem

Overwhelming heat on the Rosario afternoon on Thursday that, because it was so suffocating, fainted a good number of attendees, crowded to accompany the closing of La Libertad Avanza’s campaign. Before the event, in Parque España, a preview was organized in the lobby of the Ros Tower hotel, a few meters away, on Miter Street, through which almost the entire cabinet paraded. A cake, decorated in violet, had been prepared to celebrate the birthday of Javier Milei -entertained by a handful of intimates in Olivos the day before, an agape altered by the news of the resignation of Gerardo Werthein and the announcement of Mariano Cúneo Libaronawho confirmed, as had been reported, that he will leave his position this Monday -, but the times were not given. The large entourage of officials then moved to the park, to an improvised open tent behind the stage with plenty of mineral water to quench thirst. Luis Caputo, “Toto”was once again one of the most requested by the militancy, and the minister lent himself without problems for the photos.

Where I vote today, October 26: check the electoral roll for the 2025 legislative elections

This Sunday, the country renews 127 seats for national deputies and 24 for senators

What is voted on October 26?

This October 26, Argentina will experience a historic change in the way of voting: for the first time in a few national elections will be used Single Paper Ballot (BUP)replacing the party ballot system.

Video: what is voted on today, October 26, province by province, in the 2025 elections

Throughout the country, Argentines will elect deputies from the total of 127 legislators who will represent them in the lower house. In addition, senators will be elected in 8 districts

What is voted on October 26?

This Sunday, October 26, 2025, millions of citizens of Argentina will go to the polls to participate in the national legislative electionsa process that will define the partial renewal of both chambers of the Congress. On this day, 127 seats of the Chamber of Deputies and 24 of Senatein a vote that will cover the entire national territory.

Santiago del Estero will elect a new governor today without Zamora’s candidacy for the first time in 20 years

The representative of the ruling party is Elías Suárez, current Chief of Staff, while Ítalo Cicciolani is the libertarian candidate. The provincial leader is running as national senator

Gerardo Zamora, in an event
Gerardo Zamora, at a campaign event with Elías Suárez and Carlos Silva Neder

For the first time in two decades, Santiago del Estero is heading towards a gubernatorial election in which the surname Zamora will not be present among the candidates to lead the province, which anticipates a significant change in the political structure of the district.

With Kicillof at the center of the scene, the electoral result will test the internal coexistence of Peronism

Starting Monday, different paths will be opened for future discussion in the Buenos Aires PJ, with a view to 2027. In the bunker there will be room for all sectors, but the focus will be on the governor

Axel Kicillof and Sergio Massa
Axel Kicillof and Sergio Massa

In the run-up to this Sunday’s election, Fuerza Patria in the province of Buenos Aires made an effort to show coexistence between all the sectors that make up the electoral alliance. However, at the closing of the space’s campaign last Thursday in San Martín, the most relevant figures of La Cámpora were not present. What happens this Sunday It will be a new turning point for the path of Peronismthinking not about the election itself, but about the near future: 2027.