Overview

• By 12:30, 29.74% of eligible voters had cast ballots, the provincial electoral board reported, signaling participation below usual provincial levels.
• Multiple schools, particularly in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, opened late due to missing table authorities, and the official voter-roll website experienced outages after many polling places were reassigned.
• In Mar del Plata, a judge ordered the municipality to guarantee basic free public transport from 8:00 to 18:00; Mayor Guillermo Montenegro said the ruling was impossible to comply with.
• Parties frame the contest as a key test between Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza and Axel Kicillof’s peronist bloc, with implications for the Oct. 26 national elections.
• Polling is scheduled to close at 18:00, with the first official results expected to begin publishing around 21:00.