Elections in Santa Fe: Pullaro won in almost the entire province, the PJ won in Rosario, and La Libertad Avanza fared poorly.

Maximiliano Pullaro 's ruling party won convincingly in most of Santa Fe province, including the capital, but finished third in Rosario, the city with the largest registration, and also suffered a defeat in Rafaela, another electorally important district.
Unidos para Cambio Santa Fe won 266 of the 346 localities where legislative elections were held. The Peronist Más para Santa Fe front won 42, the local parties 27, and La Libertad Avanza just 4. The remaining eight were divided as follows: six went to local progressive fronts, one to Somos Vida, and the remaining one to the Activemos front.
"It's a resounding victory, a tremendous victory. It's unusual for a political front to triumph so resoundingly in the majority of Santa Fe's districts," Pullaro said while speaking to the press. He added: "I want you to look at this map of Santa Fe's boot. Guess who's the red one . The boot was painted a single color."
The governor's analysis was positive, even in Rosario , where the party finished third in a very close election, only five points behind the winner, Peronist Juan Monteverde . This is the district with the largest voter registration in the province: 817,000 people were eligible to vote, but only 48.32% actually did so.
Monteverde, a leader who originally emerged as a local representative of Juan Grabois , was the PJ representative at the local level after winning the PASO in April and surpassed 30% of the votes, defeating Juan Pedro Aleart, of La Libertad Avanza, by less than two points, and Carolina Labayrú, of Unidos para Cambiar Santa Fe, by less than five.
The 40-year-old councilman garnered a total of 30.58% of the votes, a total of 113,448 ; Aleart obtained 28.81% (106,918 votes), and Labayrú 25.63% (95,109 votes). In other words, the three candidates together received 85% of the vote, a margin of less than five points. Therefore, the 13 council members up for grabs will be divided: five for the Partido Popular (PJ), four for the Libertarian Party (Líberta), and four for the Pula party.
Juan Monteverde, the Peronist candidate who won in Rosario. Photo: Sebastián Granata.
Beyond Unidos para Cambio Santa Fe's defeat, the analysis within the Pullarista party was positive. "The polarization in Rosario, the scene of the thirds, was broken. The governor became very involved in recent days and closed the gap. We were the force that grew the most compared to the PASO," sources close to the governor's office said of the results.
In the Mileísmo, meanwhile, the expectation was to win in Rosario to generate a high-impact electoral victory . Although Aleart didn't win, his first foray into politics establishes him as a potential candidate for mayor in two years. "His performance was far superior to what we imagined when he was confirmed as a candidate for constituent assembly," said Libertarian sources.
In Santa Fe, the provincial capital, Unidos para Cambio's victory was clear : María del Carmen Luengo garnered 32.7% of the vote, beating Peronist Pedro Medei by nearly eight points, who closed at 24.95%. Libertarian Ana Cantiani came in third with 23.36%.
Peronism, meanwhile, also won in Rafaela , the third-largest city in terms of registered voters, with 83,000 registered voters. There, it obtained 36.35% of the vote, seven points more than La Libertad Avanza and far ahead of the Pullarist party, which only garnered 23.7%.
Pullaro's provincial ruling party, however, won the election in the fourth largest municipality, Venado Tuerto . There, candidate Juan Ignacio Pellegrini swept the vote with 51.1% of the vote.
Clarin