Raquel Argandoña


Raquel Eliana Argandoña de la Fuente is a Chilean actress, politician, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder. She was mayor of Pelarco in Chile's Maule Region after the 2000 Municipal Elections. She is best known for her role as the La Quintrala in the 1986 TV mini-series of the same name. Raquel Argandoña was the 1975 Miss Universo Chile. Raquel is the mother of the actress-singer Raquel Calderón. She, and her best friend Patricia Maldonado were dancers at private partys for Pinochet and other militars.
In 2025 she was jury on Fiebre de Baile, where she was heavily criticized by the public due to comments attacking a contestant for her body.
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Electoral Resume

Municipal Elections 1996

Pelarco's mayoralty
CandidatePartyVotes%Results
Bonifacio Correa EcheniqueUDI1.19727,16%Mayor
Raquel Argandoña De La FuenteIndep. RN1.18026,78%Councilor
Mario Contreras LoyolaDC57012,93%Councilor
Rolando González RojasPPD48010,89%Councilor
Carlos Verdugo NeiraDC2525,70%
Victor Tonelli AstorgaPRSD1753,97%

Municipal Elections 2000

Pelarco's mayoralty
CandidatePartyVotes%Results
Raquel Argandoña De La FuenteIndep. RN2.13945,98%Mayor
Bonifacio Correa EcheniqueUDI1.38429,75%Council
Mario Contreras LoyolaDC4008,60%Council
Rolando Gonzalez RojasPPD3036,51%
Carlos Verdugo PérezDC1823,91%
Elizabeth Orellana VarasILC841,81%Council

Municipal Elections 2004

San Joaquín's mayoralty
CandidatePartyVotes%Results
Sergio Echeverría GarcíaPPD25.06353,10%Mayor
Raquel Argandoña De La FuenteIndep. RN17.38436,83%
José Benito Ormeño DíazPH4.75410,07%

Parliamentary Elections 2005

Deputy for the Distrito 25, Región Metropolitana
CandidatePartyVotes%Results
Ximena Vidal LázaroPPD52.74533,81%Deputy
Marcelo Ortiz AravenaPDC32.61420,90%
Felipe Salaberry SotoUDI30.10919,30%Deputy
Raquel Argandoña De La FuenteIndep. RN21.95814,07%
Amaro Labra SepúlvedaPC12.9988,33%
Juan Enrique Prieto UrzúaPH5.6003,59%