Despite being over 28 percentage points behind the winning coalition (a difference of 28.53%), Mendoza's Peronism secured the remaining seat, maintaining a minimal presence in Congress that balances the provincial representation. As expected, the definitive count of the recent legislative elections, held on October 26, ratified the resounding victory of the alliance formed by La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and Cambia Mendoza (CM) in the province. The National Electoral Justice and the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) confirmed the broad dominance of this coalition in the category of National Deputies for Mendoza. Regarding non-affirmative votes, 26,099 blank votes (2.44%) and 31,287 null votes (2.93%) were registered, thus completing the definitive picture of an election that redefined Mendoza's legislative representation in the National Congress. This article was first published in Mendoza Today. Source: Mendoza Today. The official data revealed that the coalition reached 53.7% of affirmative votes, consolidating its position as the most voted political force. This result directly translated into a highly favorable distribution of seats: LLA + CM took four of the five seats the province was contesting in the lower house of the National Congress. This electoral success highlights the alliance's ability to mobilize the vote (an aspect that was in doubt) and capitalize on the electorate's sentiment for change and continuity, despite the elections being preceded by political and economic turbulence with significant media impact. The winning force's electoral performance even showed an improvement over the preliminary results, evidencing an upward trend that solidified in the final stage. The Front of the Left and Workers Unity was more lagging, with 3.45%, a result that marks a notable decrease compared to previous midterm elections. Closing the results table were the Provinces United + Defend Mendoza alliance (led by Jorge Difonso) with 2.88%; Protectora Fuerza Política with 1%; and the Movement to Socialism (MAS) with 0.36%. Justicialism also experienced a minimal positive variation, ending the recount with 254,447 votes. With the officialization of these results, the five new representatives of Mendoza in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation for the 2025-2029 period were defined. Emir Félix, the only Peronist who entered the renewal of national deputies for Mendoza. From the winning bloc, Luis Petri, Pamela Verasay, Álvaro Martínez, and Julieta Metral Asencio will take office. The legislative renewal projects a significant change in the composition of the Mendozan delegation, with figures of marked trajectory and new faces that will seek to influence the national debate. The electoral panorama is completed by other forces that failed to reach the representation threshold. These numbers reflect the difficulty of minority forces to consolidate in a highly polarized scenario. Finally, the report from the National Electoral Chamber detailed that of the 1,555,582 enabled Mendozans, 68.65% of the electorate exercised their civic right in this category. The coalition added a total of 542,593 votes, some 3,900 more than in the preliminary count. In second place was the Justicialist Front of Mendoza, which achieved 25.19% of affirmative votes. The opposition will be represented by Emir Félix, who will occupy the seat obtained by Peronism. It was followed by the Libertarian Democratic Front, which obtained 5.39%. The Green Front, with the candidacy of Mario Vadillo, positioned itself as the third force with 7.98% of the votes, maintaining its flow despite being far from the fight for seats. The numbers mark the growing political protagonism of Luis Petri and imply an enormous favorable gesture of more than half of the citizenship in favor of the new party of President Javier Milei. The union between the libertarian and radical sectors not only won, but did so with an overwhelming difference over its competitors.
