1996 Buenos Aires City elections
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Mayoral election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results of the Chief of Government election by electoral circuit. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All 60 seats in the Constitutional Convention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 75.91% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in the City of Buenos Aires on 30 June 1996 to elect the city's first Chief of Government (mayor) and all 60 members of the Constituent Assembly, which was tasked with drafting and adopting a new constitution for Buenos Aires. These were the first elections ever held in the city to elect its local authorities, following the 1994 amendment of the Constitution of Argentina which granted autonomy to the city. Prior to the 1996 election, the mayor (intendente) was directly appointed by the President of Argentina.
In the mayoral election, Radical Civic Union senator Fernando de la Rúa won in the first round of voting with 39.89% of the vote. The electoral rules established for this election did not require for a second round of voting (which would be implemented by the 1996 Constitution of Buenos Aires, currently in place). Incumbent mayor Jorge Domínguez sought to continue in office but received only 18% of the vote.
The legislative election resulted in a Constitutional Assembly controlled by the FREPASO, an alliance of centre-left and left-wing parties.