The Oct. 26 midterm legislative elections in Argentina yielded surprising and unexpected results. President Javier Milei’s Freedom Advances party (LLA) came away with 40.85% of the vote nationwide, against Peronism’s Patriotic Force (FP) coalition with 36.4%, winning in 16 of the nation’s 24 provinces. In the Peronist stronghold of the province of Buenos Aires, where LLA lost by 14 points in the Sept. 7 legislative elections, today its candidate Diego Santilli defeated the FP candidate, former Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. Voter turnout, at 66% of the electorate, was the lowest in the country since 1983.