Country
UN Women Region
Electoral system type
Electoral system sub-type
Closed list
Type of legislated quotas
Method of filling seats
N/A
Ranking/ placement
Ranking/ placement details
One in every two candidates must be a woman (or one in three candidates in Tucumán province).
Sanctions for non compliance
Lists are rejected
Lists are rejected.
Quota for input only OR input and output (quota on results as corrective measure)
Date
Quota target (level) in %
48.00
Women's representation in single/lower house in %
43.80
Legal Source (name) - Electoral Law
Provincial electoral regime of Chaco, 1995 (amended through 2023); Law 10 modifying the provincial election law of Misiones, 2018; Electoral system law of Neuquén, 2017; Electoral code of Rio Negro, 1991 (amended through 2023); Electoral law of the province of Salta, 1987 (amended through 2016); Electoral code of the province of San Juan, 2014 (amended through 2021); Santa Cruz law no. 2052 on electoral system, 1988 (amended through 2018); Law 408 of Tierra de Fuego amending the electoral law, 1998; Electoral regime of Tucuman, 2007 (amended through 2019)
Legal provisions - Electoral Law
• Province of Chaco: The lists will be made up of a minimum number of candidates equal to fifty percent (50%) of the positions to be filled, whether provincial or municipal, in the latter case the percentage refers to each municipality. The lists of candidates for the positions to be filled must be made up of 50% women and 50% men. The distribution will be made by placing women and men interspersed from the first titular candidate to the last substitute candidate to comply with gender parity. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Provincial electoral regime of Chaco, article 55)
• Province of Misiones: the lists of candidates for provincial, councilor and conventional constituent national, provincial or municipal constituents, must be integrated in an interspersed manner between both genders, from the first titular candidate to the last substitute candidate. If it is established that any candidate does not meet the necessary qualities, within the subsequent forty-eight (48) hours from the notification of the resolution established in article 73, the political party, electoral front or alliance to the who belongs must replace it with the candidate of the same gender that follows him on the list according to the established order, and the substitute of the corresponding gender must be nominated. (Law modifying the provincial election law of Misiones, article 1)
• Province of Neuquén: Political parties must promote equal participation in gender matters. The lists of candidates for second and third category provincial and municipal legislative offices must be made up of candidates of different genders interspersed from the first incumbent candidate to the last substitute, in such a way that there are not two consecutive candidates of the same gender. (Electoral system law of Neuquén, article 69)
Within ten (10) days, the electoral judge must issue an opinion regarding the quality of the candidates. This resolution can be appealed before the electoral board, which, for this purpose, will be integrated, in substitution of the electoral judge, by his legal substitute and must be issued by reasoned resolution within a period of five (5) calendar days. If by firm resolution it is established that a candidate does not meet the necessary qualities, the party to which he belongs must replace him within five (5) calendar days from that date. (Electoral system law of Neuquén, article 73)
• Province of Rio Negro: as a general rule, the principle of equivalent participation of genders is established for the formation of the lists of candidates for elective positions in collegiate bodies, in such a way that they contain equivalent percentages, that is, fifty percent (50%) of candidates from each gender, in accordance with the following: when even numbers are called, the lists of main and substitute candidates must make the application alternately, inserting (1) one of each gender, for each section of (2) two candidacies, until the end of the list. In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must complete the order provided in the previous paragraph and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The substitute gender heading order should be reversed, so that if one gender has a majority on the regular list, the other gender should have a majority on the alternates list. When called to elect (1) a single titular position, the substitute candidate must always be of a different gender from the one nominated for the first position. When a woman or a man included as candidates on an official list dies, resigns, becomes incapacitated or ceases to hold office for any reason before the elections are held, they will be replaced by candidates of the same gender who follow them on the list. respective list. The electoral justice and the electoral boards that oversee the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that does not meet the conditions required in this article. If there is a breach, the Electoral tribunal or the electoral boards will summon the party, alliance, confederation, permanent or transitory alliance, to proceed with its substitution or relocation within forty-eight (48) hours of being notified. If they do not comply, the Electoral tribunal or the electoral boards will ex officio make the definitive rearrangement of the lists. (Electoral code of Rio Negro, article 148)
• Province of Salta: the nomination of pre-candidates and candidates must respect the real equality of opportunities, guaranteeing the equal participation of genders for access to elective positions. In the lists they must inevitably be located after each pre-candidate or candidate of a different gender, and so on, always observing the same proportion. The gender of the candidate will be determined by their identity document regardless of their biological sex. Excepted from these rules are one-person positions or when a single pre-candidate or candidate is chosen in the category. Any list that does not meet the requirements set forth above will not be made official. (Electoral law of the province of Salta, article 38)
• Province of San Juan: all the lists that are presented, for the positions of legislative collegiate bodies both in the provincial and municipal order, must comply with the principle of gender parity and ensure equal participation. The lists must be made up of male and female candidates in an interspersed and consecutive manner, from the first or the first incumbent to the last or last substitute, in such a way that there are not two (2) continuous persons of the same gender on the same list. (Electoral code of the province of San Juan, article 134)
In no case is the list of collegiate legislative bodies allowed to participate in the primary elections of a list that does not comply with the principle of gender parity. (Electoral Code of the province of San Juan, article 136bis)
The resolutions of the Party Electoral Board may be appealed before the provincial electoral tribunal. While the appeal is in a state of being resolved, the provincial electoral tribunal will issue a decision within five (5) days. (Electoral code of the province of San Juan, article 137)
• Province of Santa Cruz: the lists will register with the Permanent electoral tribunal, the lists of publicly proclaimed candidates, who must meet the conditions of the position for which they are applied and not be included within the legal disqualifications. The lists of candidates that are presented for provincial and municipal elections in the legislative order must be integrated by interspersing women and men from the first incumbent candidate to the last substitute candidate, ensuring gender parity. - In the event of one (1) vacancy on the list, it must be covered by another candidate of the same gender who follows in the order established in the list made official by the Permanent electoral tribunal, and this will complete the term of the incumbent to whom replace. No list that does not meet these requirements will be made official. When the election of the position of deputies by municipality and representative of the people of the province before the Council of the magistracy is called, the titular and substitute candidate of the list that present must be of a different gender. (Santa Cruz law No. 2052 on electoral system, article 9)
• Province of Tierra del Fuego: the lists of candidates for collegiate bodies that are presented for their officialization, must have a minimum of thirty percent (30%) of each sex of the positions to be elected and in proportions certain to be elected. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Law 408 of Tierra de Fuego amending the electoral law, article 1)
• Province of Tucuman: the lists may not include more than seventy percent (70%) of males, and every two male candidates must be placed, one female, alternating from the first to the last place. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. Exempted from the prescriptions of this law are the one-person elective positions, governor, vice governor, mayors, community commissioners. (Electoral regime of Tucuman, article 26bis)
• Province of Misiones: the lists of candidates for provincial, councilor and conventional constituent national, provincial or municipal constituents, must be integrated in an interspersed manner between both genders, from the first titular candidate to the last substitute candidate. If it is established that any candidate does not meet the necessary qualities, within the subsequent forty-eight (48) hours from the notification of the resolution established in article 73, the political party, electoral front or alliance to the who belongs must replace it with the candidate of the same gender that follows him on the list according to the established order, and the substitute of the corresponding gender must be nominated. (Law modifying the provincial election law of Misiones, article 1)
• Province of Neuquén: Political parties must promote equal participation in gender matters. The lists of candidates for second and third category provincial and municipal legislative offices must be made up of candidates of different genders interspersed from the first incumbent candidate to the last substitute, in such a way that there are not two consecutive candidates of the same gender. (Electoral system law of Neuquén, article 69)
Within ten (10) days, the electoral judge must issue an opinion regarding the quality of the candidates. This resolution can be appealed before the electoral board, which, for this purpose, will be integrated, in substitution of the electoral judge, by his legal substitute and must be issued by reasoned resolution within a period of five (5) calendar days. If by firm resolution it is established that a candidate does not meet the necessary qualities, the party to which he belongs must replace him within five (5) calendar days from that date. (Electoral system law of Neuquén, article 73)
• Province of Rio Negro: as a general rule, the principle of equivalent participation of genders is established for the formation of the lists of candidates for elective positions in collegiate bodies, in such a way that they contain equivalent percentages, that is, fifty percent (50%) of candidates from each gender, in accordance with the following: when even numbers are called, the lists of main and substitute candidates must make the application alternately, inserting (1) one of each gender, for each section of (2) two candidacies, until the end of the list. In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must complete the order provided in the previous paragraph and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The substitute gender heading order should be reversed, so that if one gender has a majority on the regular list, the other gender should have a majority on the alternates list. When called to elect (1) a single titular position, the substitute candidate must always be of a different gender from the one nominated for the first position. When a woman or a man included as candidates on an official list dies, resigns, becomes incapacitated or ceases to hold office for any reason before the elections are held, they will be replaced by candidates of the same gender who follow them on the list. respective list. The electoral justice and the electoral boards that oversee the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that does not meet the conditions required in this article. If there is a breach, the Electoral tribunal or the electoral boards will summon the party, alliance, confederation, permanent or transitory alliance, to proceed with its substitution or relocation within forty-eight (48) hours of being notified. If they do not comply, the Electoral tribunal or the electoral boards will ex officio make the definitive rearrangement of the lists. (Electoral code of Rio Negro, article 148)
• Province of Salta: the nomination of pre-candidates and candidates must respect the real equality of opportunities, guaranteeing the equal participation of genders for access to elective positions. In the lists they must inevitably be located after each pre-candidate or candidate of a different gender, and so on, always observing the same proportion. The gender of the candidate will be determined by their identity document regardless of their biological sex. Excepted from these rules are one-person positions or when a single pre-candidate or candidate is chosen in the category. Any list that does not meet the requirements set forth above will not be made official. (Electoral law of the province of Salta, article 38)
• Province of San Juan: all the lists that are presented, for the positions of legislative collegiate bodies both in the provincial and municipal order, must comply with the principle of gender parity and ensure equal participation. The lists must be made up of male and female candidates in an interspersed and consecutive manner, from the first or the first incumbent to the last or last substitute, in such a way that there are not two (2) continuous persons of the same gender on the same list. (Electoral code of the province of San Juan, article 134)
In no case is the list of collegiate legislative bodies allowed to participate in the primary elections of a list that does not comply with the principle of gender parity. (Electoral Code of the province of San Juan, article 136bis)
The resolutions of the Party Electoral Board may be appealed before the provincial electoral tribunal. While the appeal is in a state of being resolved, the provincial electoral tribunal will issue a decision within five (5) days. (Electoral code of the province of San Juan, article 137)
• Province of Santa Cruz: the lists will register with the Permanent electoral tribunal, the lists of publicly proclaimed candidates, who must meet the conditions of the position for which they are applied and not be included within the legal disqualifications. The lists of candidates that are presented for provincial and municipal elections in the legislative order must be integrated by interspersing women and men from the first incumbent candidate to the last substitute candidate, ensuring gender parity. - In the event of one (1) vacancy on the list, it must be covered by another candidate of the same gender who follows in the order established in the list made official by the Permanent electoral tribunal, and this will complete the term of the incumbent to whom replace. No list that does not meet these requirements will be made official. When the election of the position of deputies by municipality and representative of the people of the province before the Council of the magistracy is called, the titular and substitute candidate of the list that present must be of a different gender. (Santa Cruz law No. 2052 on electoral system, article 9)
• Province of Tierra del Fuego: the lists of candidates for collegiate bodies that are presented for their officialization, must have a minimum of thirty percent (30%) of each sex of the positions to be elected and in proportions certain to be elected. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Law 408 of Tierra de Fuego amending the electoral law, article 1)
• Province of Tucuman: the lists may not include more than seventy percent (70%) of males, and every two male candidates must be placed, one female, alternating from the first to the last place. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. Exempted from the prescriptions of this law are the one-person elective positions, governor, vice governor, mayors, community commissioners. (Electoral regime of Tucuman, article 26bis)
Legal Source (name) - Parity Law
Law on the equitable political participation between genders for all elective public positions in the province of Buenos Aires, 2016; Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, 2000; Formosa’s law on gender parity in the candidacies for legislative elective positions both at the provincial and municipal levels and development commissions, 2019; Jujuy gender parity law, 2021; Gender equality law of La Pampa, 2020; Gender parity law of La Rioja, 2020; Law of gender equality in electoral matters of Mendoza, 2018; San Luis law on gender equality in areas of political representation, 2020; Santa Fe law on the principle of gender parity in the composition of state agencies, political parties, associations, councils and professional associations, 2020 (amended through 2021); Law 6612 on parity between women and men of Corrientes, 2022; Gender parity law of Entre Rios, 2020
Legal provisions - Parity Law
• Province of Entre Rios: Gender parity is understood to be the equal representation of fifty percent (50%) of men and women for each gender in the conformation of electoral lists, and in the composition of organic structures or positions and issues or appointment lists. (Gender parity law of Entre Rios, article 3)
In the following areas of application, the principle of gender parity will be mandatory: nomination of lists of pre-candidates and candidates for elective public office for municipal councilors (Gender parity law of Entre Rios, article 5)
The Electoral court that oversees the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that deviates from the precepts of this law. If there is a non-compliance, the Electoral court must order, ex officio, the definitive rearrangement of the list, to adapt it to this law. (Gender parity law of Entre Rios, article 11)
• Province of Buenos Aires: the Electoral board will formalize its candidate lists, in accordance with the pertinent legal provisions, which must be respected for charges of collegiate bodies in all categories, an equivalence of fifty percent (50%) of the female sex and another fifty percent (50%) of the male sex. This percentage will be applicable to the entire list, which must comply with the mechanism of alternation and sequentiality between the sexes by pairs (woman-man or man-woman). In the case of payrolls or odd bodies, the difference between the total number of men and women may not exceed one (1).Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Gender parity law of Buenos Aires, article 2)
• Province of Cordoba: All list of candidates for provincial, municipal elective positions -corresponding to Localities that have not sanctioned the Organic charter- and communal, presented for officialization by a political party authorized by the electoral justice, must contain equivalent percentages of candidates from both genres. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 3). The Electoral justice and the Electoral boards that supervise the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that deviates from the general principle established in the first article (1). If non-compliance mediates and the number of candidates by gender allows it, the justice system or the electoral boards, as appropriate, may order -ex officio- the definitive rearrangement of the list, to adapt it to this Law. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 4)
In order to guarantee candidates of both genders an equitable possibility of being elected, the equivalent participation established in the first article (1) must imperatively respect the following order of inclusion, namely:
a) When even numbers are called, the lists of main and substitute candidates must make the application alternately, that is, interspersing one (1) of each gender for each section of two (2) candidacies.
b) In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must complete the order provided in the previous paragraph, and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The order of the substitutes must be reversed in the same proportion, so that if one gender has a majority in the list of main candidates, the other gender must have it in the list of substitute candidates.
c) When called to elect one (1) only titular position, the substitute candidate must be of a different gender from the one who is running for it. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 5)
• Province of Formosa: The lists for elective legislative positions that are presented as mottos and/or sub-mottos must be made up of candidates of different genders interspersed and consecutively from the first titular candidacy to the last substitute, in such a way that there are not two (2) of the same gender in a row. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Formosa’s law on gender parity, article 2)
• Province of Jujuy: from the publication of the call and up to forty (40) days before the date of the elections, the representatives of the political parties must request the registration of the list of publicly proclaimed candidates. The lists that are presented must be made up of applicants in an equal distribution of 50% for each gender among all the candidates nominated for positions to be filled, placing women and men alternately among all the and the candidates nominated for positions to be filled, from the first incumbent candidate to the last alternate candidate. The gender of the candidate will be determined by their National Identity Document. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Jujuy gender parity Law, article 2)
• Province of La Pampa: The lists for elective positions must be made up in their entirety, interspersed with women and men. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Gender equality law of La Pampa, article 2)
• Province of La Rioja: Placing women and men in an interspersed manner among all the nominated candidates and the nominated candidates for the positions to be filled from the first candidate, incumbent, and up to the last candidate or substitute. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. The political parties will present to the Electoral tribunal, together with the request to make the lists official, the complete affiliation data of their candidates: name and surname, class and identity document number, marital status, address, etc. They may appear on the lists with the name or nickname by which they are known, provided that the variation thereof is not excessive or gives rise to confusion at the discretion of the Court. (Gender parity law of La Rioja, article 2)
In the conformation of the lists, these will be understood in sequential order between genders by pairs, namely: female gender / male gender or male gender / female gender, so that two (2) people of the same gender do not They are located in the lists in consecutive order. In the case of lists that apply for only one (1) representative, the titular position must be covered indistinctly by a woman or a man, being in all cases, the substitution covered by one (1) representative of another gender. The candidate's gender will be determined by her national identity document or by her self-perception of her gender identity, in accordance with the National gender identity law no. 26,743. (Gender parity law of La Rioja, article 3)
• Province of Mendoza: The lists that are presented for candidates for provincial deputies and senators, councilors and conventional constituents must respect gender parity between women and men, with the aim of guaranteeing candidates of both genders an equitable possibility of being elected. To this end, they must nominate one (1) candidate of each gender for each section of two (2) candidacies. Understanding by section of candidacies the first and second place in the first section, the third and fourth place in the second section and so on until completing the sections in the respective list. (Law of gender equality in electoral matters of Mendoza, article 1)
Up to fifty (50) days before the general election, the political groups that have reached the votes established in the previous article must register with the electoral authority the lists of the proclaimed candidates, who must meet the conditions of the position for which they are applying and not be included in any of the legal disqualifications. The lists presented for candidates for provincial deputies and senators, councilors and constituent conventions must respect gender parity, in accordance with article 17 of the Electoral law. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Law of gender equality in electoral matters of Mendoza, article 5)
• Province of San Luis: Likewise, when the officialization of the lists is required, a copy of the platform and the proof of the acceptance of the candidacies by the candidates must be sent to the Application authority. The lists of candidacies for elections of national, provincial and municipal legislators, councilors and conventional members presented by political parties, confederations and/or temporary alliances in the area of the province of San Luis, must be integrated by interspersing persons of the male and female gender, indistinctly unless otherwise provided by the law that regulates the provincial or municipal electoral regime, from the first incumbent position to the last substitute position. When calling to elect one (1) only titular position, the substitute candidate must be of a different gender from the one who is running for it. (San Luis law on gender equality in areas of political representation, article 8)
• Province of Santa Fe: Gender parity is understood as the fifty percent equal representation of men and women for each gender in the conformation of electoral lists, and in the composition of organic structures or positions and shortlists or appointment lists. (Sante Fe law on gender parity, article 2)
The lists of the pre-candidates and substitutes for the elections of provincial deputies, municipal councilors and members of the communal commissions of the province of Santa Fe presented by the political parties or confederation of parties or alliances , must be drawn up complying with the mechanism of alternation between genders (one and one or vice versa) throughout the list, guaranteeing that two people of the same gender cannot be placed consecutively on the same payroll. Once the open, mandatory and simultaneous primary elections have been held (Law no. 12367 and its amendments), to form the lists that will compete in the general elections, in the categories mentioned in the previous paragraph, the D'Hont system (proportional distribution ) among the lists of pre-candidates who had reached the respective electoral floor. Once the numbers of pre-candidates that each list contributes to the definitive integration have been defined, in its preparation it must be guaranteed that every two places (1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 5th and 6th, 7th and 8th and so on according to the number of places or seats to be covered) there is always one person of each gender, regardless of their resulting order within each duet; In the cases provided for in the preceding paragraphs, in the case of lists with an odd payroll, the difference between the total number of pre-candidates or male and female candidates may not exceed one. (Santa Fe Law on gender parity, article 5)
• Province of Corrientes: The lists of candidates that are presented for the election of provincial senators and deputies, councilors and conventional provincial and municipal constituents must be integrated by placing, interspersed, women and men from the first titular candidate and to the last substitute candidate. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Corrientes parity between men and women law, article 2)
If the judge with electoral competence, when analyzing the lists presented to be made official, detects that some do not meet the parity conditions established by this law, he will summon the party, confederation or permanent or temporary alliance, to that within forty-eight (48) hours of being notified, it proceeds to readjust its list, otherwise, it will ex officio order the final rearrangement of the list, adapting it to parity between women and men. (Corrientes parity between men and womenLlw, article 3)
In the following areas of application, the principle of gender parity will be mandatory: nomination of lists of pre-candidates and candidates for elective public office for municipal councilors (Gender parity law of Entre Rios, article 5)
The Electoral court that oversees the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that deviates from the precepts of this law. If there is a non-compliance, the Electoral court must order, ex officio, the definitive rearrangement of the list, to adapt it to this law. (Gender parity law of Entre Rios, article 11)
• Province of Buenos Aires: the Electoral board will formalize its candidate lists, in accordance with the pertinent legal provisions, which must be respected for charges of collegiate bodies in all categories, an equivalence of fifty percent (50%) of the female sex and another fifty percent (50%) of the male sex. This percentage will be applicable to the entire list, which must comply with the mechanism of alternation and sequentiality between the sexes by pairs (woman-man or man-woman). In the case of payrolls or odd bodies, the difference between the total number of men and women may not exceed one (1).Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Gender parity law of Buenos Aires, article 2)
• Province of Cordoba: All list of candidates for provincial, municipal elective positions -corresponding to Localities that have not sanctioned the Organic charter- and communal, presented for officialization by a political party authorized by the electoral justice, must contain equivalent percentages of candidates from both genres. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 3). The Electoral justice and the Electoral boards that supervise the elective processes must reject the officialization of any list of candidates that deviates from the general principle established in the first article (1). If non-compliance mediates and the number of candidates by gender allows it, the justice system or the electoral boards, as appropriate, may order -ex officio- the definitive rearrangement of the list, to adapt it to this Law. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 4)
In order to guarantee candidates of both genders an equitable possibility of being elected, the equivalent participation established in the first article (1) must imperatively respect the following order of inclusion, namely:
a) When even numbers are called, the lists of main and substitute candidates must make the application alternately, that is, interspersing one (1) of each gender for each section of two (2) candidacies.
b) In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must complete the order provided in the previous paragraph, and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The order of the substitutes must be reversed in the same proportion, so that if one gender has a majority in the list of main candidates, the other gender must have it in the list of substitute candidates.
c) When called to elect one (1) only titular position, the substitute candidate must be of a different gender from the one who is running for it. (Cordoba law on the principle of equivalent participation of gender in elections, article 5)
• Province of Formosa: The lists for elective legislative positions that are presented as mottos and/or sub-mottos must be made up of candidates of different genders interspersed and consecutively from the first titular candidacy to the last substitute, in such a way that there are not two (2) of the same gender in a row. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Formosa’s law on gender parity, article 2)
• Province of Jujuy: from the publication of the call and up to forty (40) days before the date of the elections, the representatives of the political parties must request the registration of the list of publicly proclaimed candidates. The lists that are presented must be made up of applicants in an equal distribution of 50% for each gender among all the candidates nominated for positions to be filled, placing women and men alternately among all the and the candidates nominated for positions to be filled, from the first incumbent candidate to the last alternate candidate. The gender of the candidate will be determined by their National Identity Document. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Jujuy gender parity Law, article 2)
• Province of La Pampa: The lists for elective positions must be made up in their entirety, interspersed with women and men. Any list that does not meet this requirement will not be made official. (Gender equality law of La Pampa, article 2)
• Province of La Rioja: Placing women and men in an interspersed manner among all the nominated candidates and the nominated candidates for the positions to be filled from the first candidate, incumbent, and up to the last candidate or substitute. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. The political parties will present to the Electoral tribunal, together with the request to make the lists official, the complete affiliation data of their candidates: name and surname, class and identity document number, marital status, address, etc. They may appear on the lists with the name or nickname by which they are known, provided that the variation thereof is not excessive or gives rise to confusion at the discretion of the Court. (Gender parity law of La Rioja, article 2)
In the conformation of the lists, these will be understood in sequential order between genders by pairs, namely: female gender / male gender or male gender / female gender, so that two (2) people of the same gender do not They are located in the lists in consecutive order. In the case of lists that apply for only one (1) representative, the titular position must be covered indistinctly by a woman or a man, being in all cases, the substitution covered by one (1) representative of another gender. The candidate's gender will be determined by her national identity document or by her self-perception of her gender identity, in accordance with the National gender identity law no. 26,743. (Gender parity law of La Rioja, article 3)
• Province of Mendoza: The lists that are presented for candidates for provincial deputies and senators, councilors and conventional constituents must respect gender parity between women and men, with the aim of guaranteeing candidates of both genders an equitable possibility of being elected. To this end, they must nominate one (1) candidate of each gender for each section of two (2) candidacies. Understanding by section of candidacies the first and second place in the first section, the third and fourth place in the second section and so on until completing the sections in the respective list. (Law of gender equality in electoral matters of Mendoza, article 1)
Up to fifty (50) days before the general election, the political groups that have reached the votes established in the previous article must register with the electoral authority the lists of the proclaimed candidates, who must meet the conditions of the position for which they are applying and not be included in any of the legal disqualifications. The lists presented for candidates for provincial deputies and senators, councilors and constituent conventions must respect gender parity, in accordance with article 17 of the Electoral law. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Law of gender equality in electoral matters of Mendoza, article 5)
• Province of San Luis: Likewise, when the officialization of the lists is required, a copy of the platform and the proof of the acceptance of the candidacies by the candidates must be sent to the Application authority. The lists of candidacies for elections of national, provincial and municipal legislators, councilors and conventional members presented by political parties, confederations and/or temporary alliances in the area of the province of San Luis, must be integrated by interspersing persons of the male and female gender, indistinctly unless otherwise provided by the law that regulates the provincial or municipal electoral regime, from the first incumbent position to the last substitute position. When calling to elect one (1) only titular position, the substitute candidate must be of a different gender from the one who is running for it. (San Luis law on gender equality in areas of political representation, article 8)
• Province of Santa Fe: Gender parity is understood as the fifty percent equal representation of men and women for each gender in the conformation of electoral lists, and in the composition of organic structures or positions and shortlists or appointment lists. (Sante Fe law on gender parity, article 2)
The lists of the pre-candidates and substitutes for the elections of provincial deputies, municipal councilors and members of the communal commissions of the province of Santa Fe presented by the political parties or confederation of parties or alliances , must be drawn up complying with the mechanism of alternation between genders (one and one or vice versa) throughout the list, guaranteeing that two people of the same gender cannot be placed consecutively on the same payroll. Once the open, mandatory and simultaneous primary elections have been held (Law no. 12367 and its amendments), to form the lists that will compete in the general elections, in the categories mentioned in the previous paragraph, the D'Hont system (proportional distribution ) among the lists of pre-candidates who had reached the respective electoral floor. Once the numbers of pre-candidates that each list contributes to the definitive integration have been defined, in its preparation it must be guaranteed that every two places (1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 5th and 6th, 7th and 8th and so on according to the number of places or seats to be covered) there is always one person of each gender, regardless of their resulting order within each duet; In the cases provided for in the preceding paragraphs, in the case of lists with an odd payroll, the difference between the total number of pre-candidates or male and female candidates may not exceed one. (Santa Fe Law on gender parity, article 5)
• Province of Corrientes: The lists of candidates that are presented for the election of provincial senators and deputies, councilors and conventional provincial and municipal constituents must be integrated by placing, interspersed, women and men from the first titular candidate and to the last substitute candidate. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Corrientes parity between men and women law, article 2)
If the judge with electoral competence, when analyzing the lists presented to be made official, detects that some do not meet the parity conditions established by this law, he will summon the party, confederation or permanent or temporary alliance, to that within forty-eight (48) hours of being notified, it proceeds to readjust its list, otherwise, it will ex officio order the final rearrangement of the list, adapting it to parity between women and men. (Corrientes parity between men and womenLlw, article 3)
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Legal Source (name) - Party Law
Chubut law on provincial and municipal political parties: political gender equality, 2016; Law on elective positions-female quota-political parties of Santiago del Estero, 2000
Legal provisions - Party Law
• Province of Chubut: Provisions common to provincial and municipal parties. Within three (3) months of the recognition of a provincial or municipal political party, the promoting authorities of the political parties must call internal elections to constitute the definitive authorities of the same. The lists of candidates for party authorities and the conformation of the political party leadership must respect gender parity, and must be integrated by interspersing women and men from the first incumbent candidate to the last alternate candidate. The minutes of the election will be sent to the Electoral Tribunal, within fifteen (15) days of completion. (Law on provincial and municipal political parties of Chubut, article 2)
Number of pre-candidates equal to the number of regular and substitute positions to be selected, respecting gender parity, and the lists must be integrated by interspersing women and men from the first candidate to the last candidate / a substitute candidate. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Law on provincial and municipal political parties of Chubut, article 4)
• Province of Santiago del Estero: with anticipation of twenty (20) days at least to the date of the electoral act, the registered parties will present to the Electoral tribunal, for its officialization, the lists and ballots in which the proclaimed candidates appear. The lists of candidates for elective positions must be made up of women in a proportion of not less than fifty percent (50%). The location of the women in the lists must be carried out in such a way that, regardless of the electoral result, they access the positions maintaining the assigned proportion. Only the lists that meet the female quota requirement established herein will be made official. (Law on elective positions-female quota-political parties of Santiago del Estero, article 18)
Number of pre-candidates equal to the number of regular and substitute positions to be selected, respecting gender parity, and the lists must be integrated by interspersing women and men from the first candidate to the last candidate / a substitute candidate. Any list that does not meet these requirements will not be made official. (Law on provincial and municipal political parties of Chubut, article 4)
• Province of Santiago del Estero: with anticipation of twenty (20) days at least to the date of the electoral act, the registered parties will present to the Electoral tribunal, for its officialization, the lists and ballots in which the proclaimed candidates appear. The lists of candidates for elective positions must be made up of women in a proportion of not less than fifty percent (50%). The location of the women in the lists must be carried out in such a way that, regardless of the electoral result, they access the positions maintaining the assigned proportion. Only the lists that meet the female quota requirement established herein will be made official. (Law on elective positions-female quota-political parties of Santiago del Estero, article 18)
Provisions on gender quotas (Yes/No) - Constitution
Provisions on gender quotas (Yes/No) - Electoral Law
Provisions on gender quotas (Yes/No) - Parity Law
Provisions on gender quotas (Yes/No) - Party Law
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Local Level
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Quota Application
Quota does not apply to all types of local government.
Provisions on gender quotas (Yes/No) - Local Government Law
Legal Source (name) - Local Government Law
Constitution of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 1996; Organic law of municipalities of the province of Entre Rios, 2011 (amended through 2021); Constitution of the province of Jujuy, 2023
Legal provisions - Local Government Law
• Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: the City guarantees in the public sphere and promotes in the private sphere real equality of opportunities and treatment between men and women in the access and enjoyment of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, through actions positive that allow its effective exercise in all areas, agencies and levels and that will not be less than those in force at the time of sanction of this Constitution. Political parties must adopt such actions for effective access to leadership positions and financial management, at all levels and areas. Lists of candidates for elective office may not include more than 70 percent of the same-sex likely to be elected. Nor can they include three people of the same sex in consecutive order. (Constitution of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, article 36)
• Province of Entre Rios: The vote for the election of councilors or members of the communes will be issued by list, which may contain as many candidates as positions to be filled, and the same number of substitutes. The lists must respect the principle of equal gender participation, mandatorily assigning 50% male candidates and 50% female candidates, and must imperatively respect the following order of inclusion: when calling to cover numbers of positions that are even, the lists of main candidates and substitutes must make the application alternately, interspersing one of each gender, for each section of (2) two candidates until the end of the list. In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must comply with the order provided above, and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The heading order of the substitute gender should be reversed so that if one gender has a majority on the list of incumbents, the other gender should have a majority on the substitute list. (Organic law of municipalities of the province of Entre Rios, article 61)
• Province of Jujuy: The law will regulate the uniform exercise of the electoral right in the Province in accordance with the principle of gender parity in all elective positions for the legislature of the province, for the deliberative councils and the communal councils (Constitution of Jujuy, article 107, paragraph 2.16)
• Province of Entre Rios: The vote for the election of councilors or members of the communes will be issued by list, which may contain as many candidates as positions to be filled, and the same number of substitutes. The lists must respect the principle of equal gender participation, mandatorily assigning 50% male candidates and 50% female candidates, and must imperatively respect the following order of inclusion: when calling to cover numbers of positions that are even, the lists of main candidates and substitutes must make the application alternately, interspersing one of each gender, for each section of (2) two candidates until the end of the list. In the case of odd numbers, the lists of main candidates summoned must comply with the order provided above, and the last position may be covered indistinctly. The heading order of the substitute gender should be reversed so that if one gender has a majority on the list of incumbents, the other gender should have a majority on the substitute list. (Organic law of municipalities of the province of Entre Rios, article 61)
• Province of Jujuy: The law will regulate the uniform exercise of the electoral right in the Province in accordance with the principle of gender parity in all elective positions for the legislature of the province, for the deliberative councils and the communal councils (Constitution of Jujuy, article 107, paragraph 2.16)