The candidate of the Unión-PRO centre-right party Gabriela Michetti wins the congressional elections in Buenos Aires City with 31.08 percent of the votes. Fernando "Pino" Solanas of the leftist Proyecto Sur party comes in second place with 24.25 percent of the votes, while Alfonso Prat-Gay of the opposition-centre Social and Civic Accord comes in third place with 18.88 percent.

Mauricio Macri, Buenos Aires City governor, said that the congressional election's result shows that people "voted in favour of the change" in the country.

Macri also thanked Michetti and Unión PRO's team because of the "great campaign" they have done. "We showed that we didn't need to attack the other candidates to win an election," he said.

Fernando 'Pino' Solanas of the leftist Proyecto Sur party came in second place with 24.25 percent of the votes, while Alfonso Prat-Gay of the opposition-centre Social and Civic Accord came in third place with 18.88 percent. Meanwhile, Aníbal Ibarra's Diálogo por la Ciudad party obtained only 3 percent of the votes.

City Cabinet Chief Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, speaking just after closing time in a press conference, expressed confidence that the centre-right Unión-PRO will be able to build a nation-wide party.

Ricardo Gil Lavedra, the second congressional candidate for the Civic and Social Accord in the City, confirmed that “Michetti has won” and said he would telephone the candidate of the PRO to congratulate her.

Gil lavedra meanwhile praised his centre-left party for “making a great election in Santa Fe, Mendoza, Corrientes, and also in Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires province.”

Gabriela Michetti quit her post as the City's Deputy Mayor in order to run for as a candidate for the Lower House in Congress. She is allied with Mauricio Macri, the current city Mayor, and with dissident peronist Francisco De Narváez, who is running as candidate for the Unión-PRO party in Buenos Aires Province.

Alfonso Prat-Gay is the first candidate of the opposition-centre Social and Civic Accord formed by the alliance between the Radical Party and centre-left Civic Coalition. Prat-Gay, an economist who formerly chaired the Central Bank, has gained much of his political support from his close friend Elisa Carrió, who refused to run as head of the parliamentary slate in the city.

Fernando ‘Pino' Solanas is a socialist moviemaker and first candidate for the leftist Proyecto Sur party. He was seen as a winner in a televised debate with the other candidates.

Carlos Heller has been chairman of the Credicop Bank since 2005 and represents the Kirchnerite faction of the peronists in the City. Buenos Aires has traditionally been an anti-Peronist slate, but the Peronists did a very good election in 2007, when Daniel Filmus reached a runnoff against City Mayor Mauricio Macri. However, the popularity of the Kirchners has plummeted in Buenos Aires since the government's conflict with the farmers, which started only months after Fernández de Kirchner took office in December 2007.

Aníbal Ibarra is the first candidate for the Diálogo por la Ciudad party and he did not get enough votes to become a deputy.

• Michetti wins in Buenos Aires City