Argentina's First Lady Wins Presidency: Polls 
民调显示阿根廷第一夫人在总统选举中获胜

Argentina's first lady and presidential candidate senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner casts her vote at a polling station in Rio Gallegos, Argentina, Oct. 28 2007.

Published: October 28,2007

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday to become the first woman elected to lead the country, television exit polls showed.

Polls aired by several television channels showed Fernandez, a center-leftist senator, with 42 percent to 46 percent of the vote, well ahead of her nearest rival, former lawmaker Elisa Carrio with 23 percent to 25 percent.

If official results confirm that Fernandez has more than 45 percent of the vote, or 40 percent with a 10 percentage point lead over Carrio, she will win the presidency without facing a runoff election next month.

Cheers and applause erupted at Fernandez's campaign bunker and dozens of supporters banged drums outside when television channels flashed the exit poll numbers.

"She is going to be the same as her husband, who has done a lot of things like build houses for the poor," said 50-year-old chauffeur Ramon Reggie Quiroga.

Fernandez, 54, ran on the record of her husband, leftist President Nestor Kirchner, and she would take over from him in a highly unusual transfer of power between democratically elected spouses.

Many Argentines credit Kirchner with pulling the country out of a dramatic economic crisis in 2001-02 and using growth of 8 percent a year to create jobs, raise salaries and expand pension benefits.