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Following the June 28th, 2009 mid-term elections, half the Chamber of Deputies seats and one third of the seats in the Senate were subjected to the ballot box.

The Front for Victory ( FPV ) and other allies of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's progressive ruling couple, secured 113 of 257 seats in the lower house, losing 24 seats and their previous absolute majority ( the fractious Justicialist Party, to which the FPV formally adheres, continue to enjoy the control of the lower house since 1989 ).

Among Justicialists representatives, a further 17 seats went to anti-Kirchnerites ( mostly conservatives ), gaining just one seat from the previous situation.

The centrist social democratic Radical Civic Union, Argentina's oldest party, allied itself in various districts with the centrist Civic Coalition or with the social democratic Socialist Party, secured 77 seats, thus gaining 16.

The conservative Republican Proposal secured 26 seats, gaining 12 from the previous election.

A further 24 seats went to smaller parties, mostly provincially oriented, but also from the center-left spectrum.