2019 American League Division Series
The higher seeded team of each series hosted Games 1, 2, and (if necessary) 5, while the lower seeded team hosted Game 3 and (if necessary) 4.


2019 American League Division Series
For the third straight year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series. This ALDS was sponsored by Doosan and officially known as the 2019 American League Division Series presented by Doosan. The Yankees and Astros won their series to advance to the American League Championship Series.


2019 American League Division Series
The Astros defeated the Yankees in the ALCS, then lost the 2019 World Series to the National League champion Washington Nationals.


2019 American League Division Series, Background
Seeds one through three were determined by regular season winning percentages among division-winning teams. Those seeds were locked in as of the completion of games of September 27. The final seed was the winner of the American League Wild Card Game.


2019 American League Division Series, Background
The top seed, the Houston Astros (winner of the American League West), had home advantage against the fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Rays, who defeated the Oakland Athletics in the Wild Card Game. In the regular season, Tampa Bay won the season series against Houston 4–3, with three of their four wins coming at home to open the season.


2019 American League Division Series, Background
The second seed, the New York Yankees (winner of the American League East), had home advantage against the third seed, the Minnesota Twins (winner of the American League Central). The Yankees won four of six games against the Twins in the regular season. In a three-game series in Minneapolis in July, the teams combined for 57 total runs and 20 home runs.


2019 American League Division Series, Background
The Yankees and Astros both appeared in the ALDS the prior season, while the Twins made their first ALDS appearance since 2010, and the Rays made their first ALDS appearance since 2013. Overall, this was the  Yankees' 21st ALDS appearance, the Twins' seventh, the Rays' fifth, and the fourth for the Astros (who had seven NLDS appearances during their time in the National League). This was the second straight year the ALDS featured three 100-win teams.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay
This was the first time that the Astros and Rays met in the postseason.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 1
Justin Verlander and Tyler Glasnow traded scoreless frames for the first four innings before José Altuve broke the tie with a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning. It was Altuve's fifth home run in an ALDS Game 1 in the last three seasons. He hit three in Game 1 of the 2017 ALDS and one in Game 1 of the 2018 ALDS. Two more runs would score in the inning on a dropped pop-up error on Rays' second baseman Brandon Lowe.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 1
Verlander would keep the Rays bats silent for the next two innings, striking out the side in the top of the seventh to put the finishing touches on seven innings of one-hit baseball with eight strikeouts. The Astros would tack on two more runs in the bottom of the seventh on back-to-back doubles by Yordan Álvarez and Yuli Gurriel. Ryan Pressly would relieve Verlander in the eighth but would surrender two runs on consecutive hits by Eric Sogard and Austin Meadows before Will Harris got Ji-man Choi to ground out to end the inning. Roberto Osuna pitched a perfect ninth inning to seal the Game 1 win for Houston.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 2
Gerrit Cole and Blake Snell, like Justin Verlander and Tyler Glasnow in Game 1, traded scoreless innings for the first three innings before Alex Bregman broke the tie with a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning. Cole kept the Rays bats silent for 72⁄3 innings and struck out 15 batters, the most in a postseason game since Roger Clemens in the 2000 ALCS. Meanwhile, the Astros tacked on another run in the seventh inning on a bloop single from Martín Maldonado and then scored their final run on a Carlos Correa single.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 2
Roberto Osuna relieved Gerrit Cole with two outs in the eighth and retired Yandy Díaz. Osuna started the ninth inning and ran into trouble immediately. He gave up back to back singles to Austin Meadows and Tommy Pham to start the inning and walked Ji-man Choi to load the bases. Osuna got Avisaíl García to ground into a forceout that scored Meadows from third. He then walked Brandon Lowe to load the bases again and was subsequently relieved by Will Harris with one out in the ninth inning. Harris then retired Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Kiermaier to end the game and seal the Game 2 victory for Houston.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 3
Zack Greinke was given the ball to try and help the Astros sweep the Rays. Charlie Morton was his mound opponent. The Astros got to work early on Morton, with José Altuve hitting a solo homer to get the Astros on the board. Greinke retired the Rays in order to begin his outing, but in the second inning, it went sour for Greinke.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 3
He retired Ji-man Choi to start the second, allowed a single to Avisaíl García, got Brandon Lowe to ground out, hit Travis d'Arnaud with a pitch and Kevin Kiermaier hit a three-run home run that gave the Rays their first lead in the series. Morton settled into his outing after the first, throwing five innings of one-run baseball.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 3
Meanwhile, the Rays kept scoring runs, adding a run in the third inning with a Choi home run, and they broke the game in the 4th inning, getting a home run from Lowe, an Austin Meadows two-run double and a Tommy Pham single to put the Rays up 8–1 and chased Greinke from the game. The Astros would chip away at the deficit with a Yuli Gurriel two-run single that made it 8–3. That would end the scoring for the Astros. Meanwhile, the Rays added to their lead, with a Willy Adames solo home run and a d'Arnaud sacrifice fly to capped the scoring for the Rays. Colin Poche retired the Astros in order and allowed the Rays to play a Game 4.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 4
The Rays struck first against Justin Verlander who was pitching on three days rest. Tommy Pham hit a home run with Travis d'Arnaud and Joey Wendle adding RBI base hits all in the first inning. Willy Adames added another solo shot off Verlander, ending his night in the fourth. Robinson Chirinos spoiled the Rays' shutout with a home run of his own. With the tying run at the plate in the top of the ninth and one out, Blake Snell struck out Yordan Alvarez and induced a ground ball out from Yuli Gurriel to force the decisive Game 5.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 5
With the series tied at two games apiece, this was the second ALDS Game 5 for both teams; Tampa Bay lost their prior Game 5 appearance in 2010, and Houston lost their Game 5 appearance in 2015. Houston had only one NLDS Game 5 appearance when they competed in the National League, a win in 2004. The Astros struck early on an RBI single by Altuve, a two-run double by Bregman, and an RBI single by Yuli Gurriel in the span of five batters.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 5
Eric Sogard would lead off the next inning with a solo home run and would be the final time the Rays had an extra base hit in the game. Cole would pitch eight innings while striking out ten. It was his 11th consecutive game with 10+ strikeouts including the regular season. Michael Brantley and Jose Altuve went back-to-back in the bottom of the 8th inning to bring the lead to 6–1. Altuve's home run was the 11th in his postseason career, the most by any second baseman in baseball history.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 5
Roberto Osuna came on to close out the game in the ninth, striking out Ji-man Choi swinging to end the series. The 6–1 win sent Houston on to the ALCS to face the New York Yankees. The Astros became the first team since the 2011–13 Detroit Tigers to appear in the ALCS in three consecutive seasons.


2019 American League Division Series, Houston vs. Tampa Bay, Game 5
Combined with his Game 2 start, Cole struck out 25 hitters during the series, setting a new Major League Division Series record.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota
This was the sixth postseason match-up between Minnesota and New York. The previous five meetings were the 2003 ALDS, 2004 ALDS, 2009 ALDS, 2010 ALDS, and the 2017 AL Wild Card Game—with the Yankees winning each of those prior meetings. This was just the second time the ALDS featured a match-up of two 100-win teams, following the Boston Red Sox and Yankees meeting during the 2018 ALDS.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1
This match-up featured two of the best home run hitting teams in major league baseball history. With 307 home runs by their hitters, the Twins set a new major league record for most home runs by a team in a season, narrowing beating out the Yankees, who hit 305 this season themselves.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 1
With their loss to the Yankees in Game 1, the Twins took sole possession of the record for the longest postseason losing streak in MLB history, at 14 games.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2
Randy Dobnak, making his postseason debut, allowed an opening double to DJ LeMahieu and a walk to Aaron Judge. He got Brett Gardner to fly out but gave up a single to Edwin Encarnación to give the Yankees a 1–0 lead. Things would go very wrong for the Twins in the bottom of the third, as Dobnak allowed a single to Judge, a walk to Gardner, a single to Encarnacion to load the bases and was relieved by Tyler Duffey. Giancarlo Stanton hit a sacrifice fly to give the Yankees a 2–0 lead.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 2
Duffey then gave a single to Gleyber Torres to make it 3–0 Yankees. Duffey proceeded to hit Gary Sánchez with a pitch to load the bases again and then gave up a grand slam to Didi Gregorius to blow the game open. Masahiro Tanaka went five innings and gave up one run. Jonathan Loáisiga gave up the second Twins run and struck out Miguel Sanó to end the game and send the Yankees to Minneapolis with a 2–0 series lead.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 3
Gleyber Torres opened the scoring with a solo home run to left in the second, followed by a Brett Gardner single in the next frame which drove in Gio Urshela. Didi Gregorius continued to haunt the Twins with another RBI single, making the score 3–0 in the seventh. Eddie Rosario homered off Zach Britton to pull the Twins within two, but the Yankees added two insurance runs in the ninth on a Cameron Maybin homer and Gregorius scoring Torres on another hit.


2019 American League Division Series, New York vs. Minnesota, Game 3
Luis Severino labored through four scoreless innings, getting out of a bases loaded no out jam in the second, before giving way to the bullpen. Aroldis Chapman, who entered in the eighth, got the save. Chapman was aided by Gregorius leaping to catch a Jorge Polanco line drive for the second out of the ninth before Nelson Cruz struck out looking to end the series and send the Yankees to their 17th ALCS. The loss gave Minnesota its 16th straight postseason defeat, 13 of those in games against the Yankees; and their 28th straight year without winning the title.


2019 American League Wild Card Game
The 2019 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2019 postseason contested between the American League's two wild card teams, the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays. It was played on October 2, with Tampa Bay advancing to the American League Division Series to face the Houston Astros. The game was televised nationally by ESPN, and was sponsored by Hankook Tire for the second straight year. An alternate telecast, featuring Statcast analytics and sponsored by Amazon Web Services, aired on ESPN2. The game set the record for the highest attendance at a wild card game with an attendance of 54,005.


2019 American League Wild Card Game
For the third straight year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series; as with the 2019 NL Wild Card Game, this wild-card game was again presented by sponsor Hankook Tire and officially known as the 2019 American League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire.


2019 American League Wild Card Game, Background
Oakland entered the game with a 97–65 record, while Tampa Bay was 96–66. They met seven times during the regular season, with Oakland winning the season series 4–3.


2019 American League Wild Card Game, Background
The Oakland Athletics secured a berth in the Wild Card Game on September 27. The Athletics finished second in the American League West, behind the Houston Astros. Oakland secured home field advantage on September 28. This was Oakland's third postseason appearance as a wild card team. They previously appeared in the 2014 and 2018 Wild Card Games, losing both.


2019 American League Wild Card Game, Background
The Tampa Bay Rays also secured a Wild Card berth on September 27. They finished second in the American League East, behind the New York Yankees. This was Tampa Bay's third postseason appearance as a wild card team. They previously appeared in one Wild Card Game, a win in 2013.


2019 American League Wild Card Game, Game results, Line score
The Rays took an early lead in the first inning courtesy of a leadoff home run by Yandy Díaz off Oakland starter Sean Manaea. Manaea gave up a single to Matt Duffy to begin the second inning, and Avisaíl García promptly homered to extend Tampa Bay's lead to 3–0. When Manaea gave up another home run to Díaz in the third inning, he was lifted in favor of Yusmeiro Petit.


2019 American League Wild Card Game, Game results, Line score
The Athletics scored their lone run of the game in the bottom of the third, when a throwing error by Mike Brosseau allowed Marcus Semien to reach third base and Ramón Laureano drove him in with a sacrifice fly. However, Tommy Pham's fifth inning home run off Petit again gave the Rays a four-run lead. Charlie Morton was relieved after the bottom of the fifth by Diego Castillo, Nick Anderson, and Emilio Pagán, who combined for four scoreless innings to seal the victory for Tampa Bay. For Oakland, it was their 30th straight year without a title.


2019 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
The 34th American Society of Cinematographers Awards were held on January 25, 2020, at the Hollywood & Highland Ray Dolby Ballroom, honoring the best cinematographers of film and television in 2019.


2019 American Society of Cinematographers Awards, Nominees, Film, Spotlight Award
The Spotlight Award recognizes outstanding cinematography in features and documentaries that are typically screened at film festivals, in limited theatrical release, or outside the United States.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season
The 2019 American Ultimate Disc League season was the eighth season for the league. It began on April 5, 2019, and concluded on August 11, 2019, when the New York Empire defeated the Dallas Roughnecks to earn the team's first title. Ben Jagt of the Empire won his first league MVP award after the season. The season marked Steve Hall's first as league commissioner, and was the first with an all-star game for the league.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Offseason
In early October 2018, AUDL franchise owners selected Steve Hall, a co-owner of the Atlanta Hustle, to be the new league commissioner for a three-year term. He succeeds previous commissioner Steve Gordon. Around the same time, the league announced tentative plans for a women's ultimate league to be started as early as 2020. Adding to the new endeavors, AUDL added an all-star game for the first time in league history and accordingly shortened the schedule from 14 to 12 regular-season games. 2019 marked the second year of the league's television agreement with Stadium.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Offseason
Two teams folded over the offseason, the San Francisco FlameThrowers and the Nashville NightWatch. No new teams joined the league for the 2019 season.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Regular season
Each team played twelve games, contested over fifteen weeks in the regular-season schedule.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Regular season, Week 2
The Austin Sol beat Texas rival Dallas Roughnecks for the first time in franchise history, snapping a twelve-game skid.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Regular season, Week 10
No regular season games were held in week 10; instead, the inaugural AUDL All-Star contest was held.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Regular season, Week 14
Cameron Brock of the Indianapolis AlleyCats became the first player in AUDL history to score 500 career goals, a feat he accomplished in the Week 14 matchup against the Chicago Wildfire.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Regular season, Standings, Midwest Division
The Madison Radicals did not participate in the postseason for the first time in franchise history, having made playoff appearances from 2013 to 2018.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, All-Star Game
The inaugural AUDL All-Star game was held on June 8, 2019, at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin. The league opted not to go with conference all-star teams and instead utilized a draft format, with Rowan McDonnell of the DC Breeze and Kevin Petit-Scantling of the Madison Radicals serving as captains. It was regarded by those within the league as one of the highest-level games of Ultimate ever played. The game was televised live on Stadium as part of the network's deal with the league. Team KPS won 28 – 27 after being tied at the end of regulation and overtime, with Max Sheppard of the Pittsburgh Thunderbirds being named MVP. A 2020 edition of the game was later confirmed to be taking place in Washington, D. C.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Postseason, Divisional final
The Indianapolis AlleyCats advanced to their first Championship Weekend since the inaugural season of the AUDL in 2012.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Postseason, Championship Weekend 8
Championship Weekend 8 took place at Foothill College in San Jose, California from August 10–11, 2019.


2019 American Ultimate Disc League season, Postseason, Championship Weekend 8
The New York Empire won their first title, and Beau Kittredge won his fifth title overall. New York joined the 2016 Dallas Roughnecks and 2013 Toronto Rush as the only AUDL teams in history to finish a season undefeated.


2019 Americas Challenge
The 2019 Americas Challenge is a curling challenge that took place from November 28 to 30 at Curl Mesabi in Eveleth, Minnesota. This challenge determined the second team from the Americas Zone to qualify for the 2020 World Men's Championship and the 2020 World Women's Championship. It was held as part of the 2019 Curl Mesabi Classic World Curling Tour event.


2019 Americas Challenge
The United States won both the men's and women's events, with Mexico having a successful debut, finishing second in both events. The men's US team, skipped by Rich Ruohonen went on to the finals of the Curl Mesabi Classic where they lost to a fellow American rink skipped by Korey Dropkin. The women's US team went on to the semifinals of the Curl Mesabi Classic, losing to Canada's Laura Walker rink.


2019 Americas Challenge, Background
The World Curling Federation allots two men's and two women's spots  for the Americas Zone at the World Curling Championships. For the 2020 Championships Canada has automatically claimed the first slot for both men's, due to having the best final ranking of the Zone in the 2019 Championship, and women's, due to being the host country. If Canada was not hosting the Women's Championship the United States would have received the automatic berth due to finishing one spot higher in the 2019 Championship.


2019 Americas Challenge, Background
Mexico and Brazil challenged the United States, who would have otherwise qualified automatically due to their finish at the 2019 Championships, for the second Americas Zone slot for both men and women at the 2020 Championships. This was the seventh men's challenge and second women's challenge to be held, but the first men's and women's challenges to include Mexico. The winning team earned the second Americas Zone slot at the World Championships and the runner-up earned the one Americas Zone slot at the 2020 World Qualification Event, giving them another attempt to qualify for the Championships.


2019 Americas Challenge, Men, Results
All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00).


2019 Americas Challenge, Women, Results
All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00).


2019 Americas Rallycross Championship
The 2019 Americas Rallycross Championship was the second and final season of the Americas Rallycross Championship, a feeder championship to the FIA World Rallycross Championship representing North America. The season consists of six rounds across two categories; Supercar and ARX2. The season commenced on 8 June at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio and finished on the 6 October at the same location.


2019 Americas Rugby Challenge
The 2019 Americas Rugby Challenge or ARCh 2019 was the second edition of the Americas Rugby Challenge, a men's rugby union international tournament for tier 2 teams in North and South America. The second edition was confirmed in June 2019, to be played at the Estadio Cincuentenario in Medellín, Colombia from August 25 to 31.


2019 Americas Rugby Challenge
The competition brings together Rugby Americas North (RAN) and Sudamérica Rugby, following the example of the Americas Rugby Championship (ARC). The Americas Rugby Challenge is officially the ‘B’ competition for the ARC. For the 2019 edition, the host nation, Colombia, was joined by Sudamérica Rugby rivals Paraguay while the Cayman Islands and Mexico represented Rugby Americas North. The Cayman Islands joined the competition after winning a playoff against Guyana, 58–14 in George Town in February 2019. Columbia won the tournament achieving bonus point victories in all three of their matches.


2019 Americas Rugby Challenge, Format
All four nations play each other once in a single-round robin.


2019 Americas Rugby Championship
The 2019 Americas Rugby Championship is the fourth series of the Americas Rugby Championship, the top level rugby union competition for Americas nations.


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures
The tournament was played in a round-robin format, with each team playing the five others once. The fixtures were announced on 5 November 2018.


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 1
Touch judges:Frank Méndez (FERUCHI)Luis Díaz (FERUCHI)Television Match OfficialGabriel Pinter (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 1
Touch judges: Esteban Filipanics (UAR) Juan Manuel Martínez (UAR)Television Match Official Martín González Deibe (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 1
Touch judges: Francisco González (URU) Santiago Romero (URU)Television Match Official Alejandro Longres (URU)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Touch judges: Joaquín Montes (URU) Santiago Romero (URU)Television Match Official Francisco Pesce (URU)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Touch judges: Esteban Filipanics (UAR) Juan Manuel Martínez (UAR)Television Match Official Marcelo Pilara (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Touch judges: Victor Hugo Barbosa (CBRu) Braz Magaldi (CBRu)Television Match Official Diego Pazman (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 2
Notes:Theo Sauder was originally named in the starting team m pulling out due to injury during the warm up. Nick Blevins coming into the starting team & Giuseppe du Toit coming onto the bench.


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 3
Touch judges: Robin Kaluzniak (RC) Chris Assmus (RC)Television Match Official: David Smortchevsky (RC)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 3
Touch judges: Pali Deluca (UAR) Juan Pablo Federico (UAR)Television Match Official Santiago Borsani (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 3
Notes:Joaquín Jaunsolo, Santiago Civetta, Santiago Piñeyrúa, Mateo Mari, and Ignacio Rodríguez (all Uruguay) made their international debuts.


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 4
Touch judges: Chris Assmus (RC) Harry Mason (RC)Television Match OfficialAndrew Hosier (RC)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 4
Touch judges: Phil Akroyd (USAR) Josh Houston (USAR)Television Match Official Davey Ardey (USAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 4
Touch judges: Victor Hugo Barbosa (CBRu) Renato Scalercio (CBRu)Television Match Official Diego Pasman (UAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 5
Touch judges: Scott Green (USAR) Denny Russell (USAR)Television Match Official Davey Ardrey (USAR)


2019 Americas Rugby Championship, Fixtures, Week 5
Touch judges: Frank Méndez (FERUCHI) Juan Ignacio Calle (FERUCHI)Television Match Official Gabriel Pinter (FERUCHI)


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger
The 2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey between 9 and 15 September 2019.


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger – Doubles
Rameez Junaid and Purav Raja were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov.


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger – Doubles
Golubev and Nedovyesov won the title after Marek Gengel and Lukáš Rosol withdrew before the final.


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger – Singles
Corentin Moutet was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2019 Amex-Istanbul Challenger – Singles
Ugo Humbert won the title after defeating Denis Istomin 6–2, 6–2 in the final.


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign
Amirjan Qosanov, a Kazakh journalist and opposition politician expressed his interest on 9 April 2019 in joining the race, believing a chance of possible fair election being held under Acting President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. On 26 April, Qosanov announced his bid for presidency for the Ult Tagdyry political association where he was unanimously nominated by the group. Qosanov became a registered candidate by the Central Election Commission. On 12 May 2019, Qosanov's campaign officially published the electoral platforms on the website.


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Foreign policy
In regards towards foreign policy, Qosanov stated that "I am one of the organizers of the republican meeting, which was against the entry of Kazakhstan into the Eurasian Economic Union. We believe this union is unequal. For all economic and military parameters, one country dominates there - Russia. We have always advocated good-neighborly relations with Russia, but on equal terms. Therefore, being in a single alliance with a country that is much larger than us cannot be effective and useful for our country. Speaking about rapprochement with the European Union, we are talking primarily about the European Western standards of democracy, competitive political life, turnover of power, freedom of speech, control of government institutions, and a civilized liberal economy."


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Campaign
Qosanov visited several regions and cities such as Petropavl, Karaganda, Almaty, and Kostanay. In his official visit to Pavlodar, he called it an industrial region where it has economic potential. "Therefore, such issues as employment and social protection are relevant here. Many questions were asked about the role of educators in the modern world" he said.


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Campaign
Despite being considered as an opposition, many other groups and parties called for boycott in the elections and accused of Qosanov being compromised by the government. In responds to those complains Qosanov responded that "First, every citizen has the right to boycott. But every political organization is not a citizen. This is an organization with its own burden of responsibility [which] must measure it out, cut it off once before making a boycott. I would understand if it was a collective, solidarity, organized, powerful boycott. Perhaps I would then join as one of the participants in the democratic process.


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Campaign
I don’t see that. More I see a desire to get away from routine campaigning work, a lack of finance and appropriate resources to participate in this. More I see something personal about me. Now my former comrades-in-arms, with whom I went to the rallies, are mocking and burning me. I personally do not understand this. Perhaps I can admit that there is some kind of envy and jealousy, because whether they like it or not, this campaign allows me to consolidate the protest electorate. People turn to me - from super radicals to centrists, from hawks from opposition to doves from opposition. I get satisfaction, pleasure from this work, because I haven't worked with the electorate so purposefully for a long time."


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Campaign
Throughout his campaign, Qosanov held live streams on social media where spoke in Russian and Kazakh about his platforms to the public.


2019 Amirjan Qosanov presidential campaign, Campaign
In an interview to the Current Time, Qosanov already expressed doubts that the election would be conducted fairly, in which he promised of his condemnation of results if any violations were reported.


2019 Amstel Gold Race
The 2019 Amstel Gold Race is a road cycling one-day race that took place on 21 April 2019 in the Netherlands. It was the 54th edition of the Amstel Gold Race and the 18th event of the 2019 UCI World Tour.


2019 Amstel Gold Race, Teams
As the Amstel Gold Race was a UCI World Tour event, all eighteen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to enter a team in the race. Seven UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.


2019 Amstel Gold Race, Pre-race favourites
The main bookmakers' favourites before the race were Mathieu van der Poel, who was set to make his debut in the Amstel Gold Race, and Julian Alaphilippe. Both cyclists had already been successful in the early season, with Van der Poel winning Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Brabantse Pijl and Alaphilippe taking the victory in Strade Bianche and Milan–San Remo. Other riders seen as contenders included Michael Matthews, Peter Sagan, Maximilian Schachmann, Alejandro Valverde and Jakob Fuglsang, as well as former winners Philippe Gilbert and Michał Kwiatkowski. Defending champion Michael Valgren also participated, but was not seen as a favourite due to his disappointing start of the season.


2019 Amstel Gold Race, Race summary
Early in the race, a breakaway group of 11 riders escaped the peloton. Their lead would grow to eight minutes before Jakob Fuglsang's Astana team increased the pace in the peloton. Mathieu van der Poel was the first of the favourites to attack at 43 km to the finish together with Gorka Izagirre, but their attempt was brought back by the peloton soon after. Julian Alaphilippe was the next to attack after the early breakaway was caught, joined by Fuglsang and Matteo Trentin. Trentin was unable to follow the other two and would be joined by Michał Kwiatkowski, with a chase group containing most of the favourites following shortly behind them.


2019 Amstel Gold Race, Race summary
After the final ascent of the Cauberg, Alaphilippe and Fuglsang had a lead of 30 seconds over the two chasers and nearly a minute over the group behind. With 3 km to go their lead was up to 40 seconds over Kwiatkowski, who had left Trentin behind. At that point, the two in front stopped collaborating with each other, attempting to conserve energy for their final sprint. However, they were then caught in the last kilometer, first by Kwiatkowski and then by the other chase group led by Van der Poel. In the ensuing sprint, Van der Poel proved to be the strongest, while the other podium places were taken by Simon Clarke and Fuglsang.


2019 Amstel Gold Race (women's race)
The sixth edition of the Amstel Gold Race for Women was a road cycling one-day race held on 21 April 2019 in the Netherlands. It was the seventh event of the 2019 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Maastricht and finished in Berg en Terblijt, containing 19 categorised climbs and covering a total distance of 127 km. It was won by Katarzyna Niewiadoma.


2019 Amstel Gold Race (women's race), Teams
Eighteen teams participated in the race. Each team has a maximum of six riders:


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 2019 for constituting the fifteenth Legislative Assembly in the state. They were held alongside the 2019 Indian general election.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
The YSR Congress Party won the election in a landslide, winning 151 of the 175 seats, with the incumbent Telugu Desam Party winning just 23. The Jana Sena Party entered the legislature, and the Congress and BJP  both failed to win any seats.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy was unanimously voted as Legislature leader of the YSR Congress Party, and was invited to form the government by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, E. S. L. Narasimhan. This was the second assembly in Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Previous Assembly
In the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, the Telugu Desam Party, led by chief N. Chandrababu Naidu, in alliance with the Jana Sena Party, led by chief Pawan Kalyan, and the Bharatiya Janata Party, emerged as the single largest party. With 88 seats required to win a majority, the alliance won 103 out of the available 175 seats. Mr. Naidu was invited to form the government as part of the fourteenth chief minister of Andhra Pradesh by the then Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana E. S. L. Narasimhan. It was the first Assembly in Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the state into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background
Y S Jaganmohan Reddy launched his 3,648-km-long Praja Sankalpa Yatra on 6 November 2017. In this Padayatra, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launched an attack on the failed promises and corruption of the ruling Telugu Desam Party. He covered more than 130 out of the 175 assembly constituencies in the state, from YSR Ghat in Idupulapaya in Kadapa to Icchapuram in Srikakulam district. During his Padayatra, he addressed 124 public meetings.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Background
Meanwhile, Jana Sena Party leader Pawan Kalyan hurled allegations of corruption against the TDP and Andhra minister Nara Lokesh, son of N. Chandrababu Naidu and BJP for injustice meant to the state on Special Category status and broke the alliance. Taken aback by criticism from its ally, the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) contested the 2019 assembly elections on its own. The TDP also withdrew from the National Democratic Alliance in March 2018 following disputes between the TDP and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regarding the misuse of funds. This resulted in competition between the Jana Sena, Telugu Desam, and YSR Congress parties. A few weeks later, BJP announced that they will contest in all 175 assembly constituencies in the state.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Election Day
The election was held in a single phase on 11 April for 175 assemblies and 25 parliamentary constituencies. A 79.88% voter turnout was recorded by the end of the election day, which was 1.92% higher than the 2014 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. 1,55,45,211 Male and 1,57,87,759 Female voters cast their votes in the election. Overall 3,13,33,631 of a possible 3,93,45,717 voters participated in the election.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Election Day
The highest turnout of 85.93% was recorded in Prakasam district followed by Guntur district with 82.37%, while Visakhapatnam district recorded the lowest turnout of 73.67%. Addanki (Assembly constituency) recorded the highest voter turnout of 89.82% voting and Visakhapatnam West (Assembly constituency) registered the lowest turnout of 58.19%.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Candidates
Below is a list of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Contesting candidates from each party are arranged with respect to their districts.


2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Results
The results were announced on 23 May 2019, the day of the counting of ballots. YSRCP won the polls by winning a record 151 seats out of 175 seats, their best poll performance to date. YSRCP won all MLA seats in the districts of Kadapa, Kurnool, Nellore, and Viazayanagram. Furthermore, they lost only 3 seats (Kuppam, Hindupur, Uravakonda) in the Rayalaseema region. From the 26 ministers in the ruling TDP Cabinet only 3 ministers, Nimmakayala Chinarajappa, Ganta Srinivasa Rao, and Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, were able to win. The JSP+ alliance won only a single seat of Razole, while the leader of the alliance Pawan Kalyan lost both the seats in Gajuwaka and Bhimavaram. The national parties - INC and BJP - were not able to win a single seat.


2019 Ando Securities Open
The 2019 Ando Securities Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ITF Women's World Tennis Tour. It took place in Tokyo, Japan between 11 and 17 November 2019.


2019 Ando Securities Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Ando Securities Open – Doubles
Rika Fujiwara and Yuki Naito were the two-time defending champions, having won the previous editions in 2016 and 2017, however both players chose not to participate.


2019 Ando Securities Open – Doubles
Choi Ji-hee and Han Na-lae won the title, defeating Haruka Kaji and Junri Namigata in the final, 6–3, 6–3.


2019 Ando Securities Open – Singles
Zhang Shuai was a three-time defending champion, having won the previous editions from 2015 to 2017 and successfully defended her title, defeating Jasmine Paolini in the final, 6–3, 7–5.


2019 Andorran local elections
The 2019 Andorran local elections were held on 15 December, to elect all councillors in the seven parishes of Andorra.


2019 Andorran local elections, Electoral system
Voters elected the members of the municipal councils (consells de comú in Catalan). The Electoral Law allows the municipal councils to choose their numbers of seats, which must be an even number between 10 and 16.


2019 Andorran local elections, Electoral system
All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the whole parish, using closed lists. Half of the seats were allocated to the party with the most votes. The other half of the seats were allocated using the Hare quota (including the winning party). With this system the winning party obtained an absolute majority.


2019 Andorran local elections, Electoral system
The cònsol major (mayor) and the cònsol menor (deputy mayor) will be elected indirectly by the municipal councillors after the election.


2019 Andorran local elections, Parties and leaders
A total of 21 lists were contesting the election. In Encamp, Ordino and Escaldes-Engordany there were 4 candidacies; in Andorra la Vella and Sant Julià de Lòria, 3; in Canillo, 2; and in la Massana only one list was contesting the election. For first time since the 2007 election, two lists were contesting the election in Canillo. In Sant Julià de Lòria, the incumbent mayor was unable to form a candidacy.


2019 Andorran local elections, Results
Final turnout was 56.54%, four percentual points lower than in the 2015 election. Abstention was over 50% in Andorra la Vella.


2019 Andorran local elections, Results
Candidacies supported by Democrats for Andorra won the election in five out of seven parishes, while in Sant Julià de Lòria, the candidacy formed by Third Way and Lauredian Union won. The Social Democrats won in Escaldes-Engordany.


2019 Andorran parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 7 April 2019, electing all 28 seats of the General Council. Although they remained the largest party, the Democrats for Andorra lost their parliamentary majority after losing four seats. The Social Democratic Party gained four seats, becoming the second-largest party.


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Background
Democrats for Andorra secured an absolute majority in the 2015 election and Antoni Martí was re-elected Prime Minister of Andorra. In December 2017, Josep Pintat, together with the two members of the Lauredian Union and two members of Committed Citizens, left the Liberal group.


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Background
Antoni Martí was unable to stand for reelection, as the Constitution limits the office to two complete consecutive terms.


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Electoral system
Twenty-eight general councillors (Catalan: consellers generals) are elected, based on closed party lists:


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Electoral system
The parish lists and the national list are independent of one another: the same person cannot appear on both the national list and on a parish list, and voters cast two separate ballots. There is no requirement to vote for the same party for both lists.


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Parties and leaders, Nationwide constituency
The following parties or coalitions are running in the election:


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Parties and leaders, Parish constituencies
The following table displays the parties or coalitions running at each parish:


2019 Andorran parliamentary election, Government formation
Three parties eventually formed a governing coalition, composed of the Democrats, the Liberal Party and Committed Citizens.


2019 Angola Cup
The 2019 Taça de Angola was the 37th edition of the Taça de Angola, the second most important and the top knock-out football club competition in Angola following the Girabola. The competition returns after having not been played in 2018 due to the transitional calendar.


2019 Angola Super Cup
The 2019 Supertaça de Angola (30th edition) was contested by Primeiro de Agosto, the 2018–19 Girabola champion and Desportivo da Huíla, the 2019 Angola cup winner, in the return of the two leg format. On home court. D'Agosto beat Desportivo 2–0 to secure their 10th title, following a 0-1 defeat in the first leg match in Lubango.


2019 Ankara mayoral election
Mayoral elections were held in the Turkish province of Ankara as part of nationwide local elections on 31 March 2019. A total of 26 mayors, one for each of the 25 districts of Ankara and one for the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, were be elected.


2019 Ankara mayoral election
Initial results suggested that opposition candidate Mansur Yavaş was elected with 50% of the vote, compared to the government candidate Mehmet Özhaseki's 47%. Although the AKP challenged the results and forced recounts in several districts, they were unable to overturn Yavaş's majority. Yavaş's victory was confirmed on 8 April 2019, when he was officially inaugurated mayor.


2019 Ankara mayoral election, Candidates
On 27 November 2018, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) announced their metropolitan mayoral candidate to be Mehmet Özhaseki, the former mayor of Kayseri and former Minister of Environment and Urban Planning. Due to the People's Alliance agreement, Özhaseki has the support of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).


2019 Ankara mayoral election, Candidates
On 18 December, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) announced their candidate to be Mansur Yavaş, their candidate in the previous election in 2014. Yavaş had narrowly lost the previous election to AKP candidate Melih Gökçek despite accusations of widespread electoral fraud, with many commentators arguing that Yavaş was the true winner of the election. Yavaş has the support of the İYİ Party and declared himself to be the 'Nation Alliance candidate'.


2019 Antalya Open
The 2019 Antalya Open (also known as the Turkish Airlines Open Antalya for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts. It was the 3rd edition of the event, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place at the Kaya Palazzo Resort in Belek, Antalya Province, Turkey, from June 23–29.


2019 Antalya Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Antalya Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry using a protected ranking into the singles main draw:


2019 Antalya Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Antalya Open (pool)
The 2019 Antalya Open (also known as the 2019 Dynamic Billiard Antalya Open) was a professional nine-ball pool tournament held from 7 to 10 November 2019 in the Limak Atlantis Resort in Antalya, Turkey. The event was the sixth and final Euro Tour event of 2019, following the Klagenfurt Open. The men's event was won by Estonia's Denis Grabe, who won his third Tour win, defeating Eklent Kaçi 9–2. The women's event was won by Poland's Oliwia Zalewska, who won her first Tour event. She defeated Tina Vogelmann in the final 7–6.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament format
The 2019 Antalya Open was a professional nine-ball event, the sixth and final Euro Tour event held in 2019. The event featured two brackets, held from 7 to 9 November 2019 for the men's event, and 8 to 10 November for the women's event. Both events were first played as a double-elimination tournament. It was held at the Limak Atlantis Resort in Antalya, Turkey. The men's event became a single-elimination bracket at the round-of-32, while the women's event remained a double-elimination tournament until the round-of-16. All matches were played as race-to-nine racks.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament format
The tournament was the first Euro Tour event held in Turkey since the 1999 Turkish Open won by Germany's Ralph Eckert.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament format, Prize fund
Both the men's and women's event's prize fund was similar to those of other Euro Tour events, totalling €38,000, of which €4,500 was awarded to both of the winners of the event.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Men's event
The men's event was held from 7–9 November 2019 with 181 participants. The double-elimination stage featured nine rounds. Nick Malai defeated former winner Ruslan Chinachov 9–1 in the opening round, however, both players won their remaining matches and reached the single-elimination round. British players Mark Gray and Darren Appleton also met in the first round; the 2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner Appleton won 9–5. Gray commented post-match that his break was to blame, and that the "better player undoubtedly won". Having won, Appleton qualified for the winner's third round, but decided to sleep prior to the match.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Men's event
Instead of waking in time for his 4:30 pm GMT match with Albin Ouschan, Appleton overslept, forfeited the match, and also his loser's qualification round match, scheduled to also be against Gray. Two several-time Euro Tour winners Mario He and Thorsten Hohmann met in the loser's qualification round. Hohmann led 6–3, before He won five of the next six racks to lead 8–7, however Hohmann won the next two frames to eliminate He.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Men's event
The single-elimination round was played on the 8 and 9 November. Hohmann met fellow German player and reigning WPA World Nine-ball champion Joshua Filler. Filler outplayed Hohmann, and won 9–3. Mark Gray defeated Tomasz Kapłan 9–2 to meet Filler in the last 16, where Filler won 9–7. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz defeated Albin Ouschan 9–2 in the last 32 before defeating Wiktor Zielinski 9–1 to reach the quarter-finals. At the quarter-final stage, Sanchez-Ruiz was defeated by Russian youngster Fedor Gorst 5–9. Elsewhere, Denis Grabe defeated Mieszko Fortunski 9–6, Eklent Kaçi defeated Sanjin Pehlivanovic 9–5 and David Alcaide defeated Joshua Filler 9–7. The first semi-final saw Kaci defeat Alcaide 9–4, whilst Grabe defeated Gorst 9–6.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Men's event
The final was held at 5:30 pm GMT between Grabe and Kaci. Grabe was playing in his fourth Tour final, having won two prior events in 2014, whilst Kaci was playing in his fifth final, having won two prior events including the 2019 Austria Open prior in the season. With Grabe leading 4–1, Kaci missed a shot on the 2-ball and conceded the rack in frustration. Referee Nikola Pešo deemed the act as unsportsmanlike and awarded both rack six and an additional rack to Grabe. Leading 6–1, Grabe won three of the next four racks to win the tournament.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Women's event
The women's event took place from 8 to 10 November, with 34 participants. The double-elimination round lasted six rounds. The top four ranked players on the Tour all reached the last 16. Russia's Kristina Tkach (first seed) won her matches 7–1 and 7–3 to draw Veronika Ivanovskaia in the knockout round. Tkach won the match 7–6 to reach the quarter-finals. Belorussian player Marharyta Fefilava (second seed) won her two qualifying matches 7–0 and 7–2 to meet Kamila Khodjaeva in the last 16. Fefilava defeated Khodjaeva 7–4 to reach the quarter-finals. Both Ana Gradišnik (third seed) and Kateryna Polovinchuk (fourth seed) also reached the last 16 round, but lost to Christine Steinlage and Oliwia Zalewska respectively.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Women's event
The quarter-finals started with Tkach defeating Pia Filler 7–4, whilst Zalewska defeated Melanie Suessenguth 7–4. The bottom half of the draw featured Steinlage defeating Diana Stateczny 7–3, and Tina Vogelmann defeating Fefilava 7–4. In the semi-finals, Zalewska defeated Tkach 7–5, whilst Vogelmann defeated Steinlage 7–3. The final was played between Tina Vogelmann and Oliwia Zalewska. Vogelmann was playing in her first Euro Tour final, whereas Zalewska had won three events prior, including the preceding event, the Klagenfurt Open. Vogelmann took an early lead in the match, leading 4–2 after six racks.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Tournament summary, Women's event
Zalewska won the next three racks to lead, but the match became tied at 6–6. Vogelmann broke for the match, but had a dry break. Zaleska chose to push out, but Vogelmann left the table safe after her shot. With no clear shot, Zaleska fluked both the 1-ball and 2-ball, and ran the rack to win the match and tournament.


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Results, Men's competition
Below is the results from the round of 32 (Last 32) onward with positions were determined by performance in the double-elimination round. Players in bold denote match winners:


2019 Antalya Open (pool), Results, Women's event
The following results are from the knockout stages following the round of 16. Players in bold denote match winners:


2019 Antalya Open – Doubles
Marcelo Demoliner and Santiago González were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Demoliner played alongside Divij Sharan, but lost in the quarterfinals to Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay. González teamed up with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, but lost in the first round to Ivan Dodig and Filip Polášek.


2019 Antalya Open – Doubles
Jonathan Erlich and Artem Sitak won the title, defeating Dodig and Polášek in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2019 Antalya Open – Singles
Damir Džumhur was the defending champion, but retired from his quarterfinal match against Jordan Thompson.


2019 Antalya Open – Singles
Lorenzo Sonego won his first ATP Tour title, defeating Miomir Kecmanović in the final, 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 6–1.


2019 Antalya Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2019 Antenna Awards
The 2019 Antenna Awards were held on 5 October 2019 at the Deakin Edge at Federation Square in Melbourne. The ceremony was announced on 4 July 2019, and recognised excellence in Australian community television of the eligibility period, running between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2019.


2019 Antenna Awards
It was hosted by comedian and former Live on Bowen presenter Dilruk Jayasinha. The ceremony was broadcast live from 8:00pm AEST on C31 Melbourne, Channel 44 Adelaide and WTV Perth, and was streamed live on Facebook. On 9 October, the ceremony was made available to stream on YouTube.


2019 Antenna Awards
Awards were presented in 24 categories. Program of the Year was awarded to The Leak with Pat McCaffrie, while Personality of the Year was awarded to Emmylou Loves presenter Emmylou McCarthy. A special award, the Stella Young Contribution to Community TV Award, was presented to Nimal Alwis.


2019 Antenna Awards
This was the 9th Antenna Awards ceremony – the first since 2014 – and marked 25 years since the first broadcast of C31 Melbourne. Nominations were accepted from producers of programs that aired on terrestrial community television – including the now-defunct Television Sydney and 31 Brisbane – as well as satellite and cable channels Aurora and ICTV.


2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election
The 2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election was held on 16 June 2019.


2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election
The elections will be held next to the presidential, legislative, municipal and Central American Parliament elections.


2019 Antigua Guatemala mayoral election
The current mayor Susana Asensio is not running for re-election. She does not have the legal requirements to qualify for re-election. Asensio was elected mayor in 2015 with a civic committee called "Antigua en Buenas Manos" (English: Antigua in Good Hands).


2019 Antipolo local elections
Antipolo held its local elections on Monday, May 13, 2019, as a part of the 2019 Philippine general election. Voters elected candidates for the local elective posts in the city: the mayor, the vice mayor, the two district congressmen, the two provincial board members of Rizal (one for each district) and the sixteen councilors (eight for each district).


2019 Antipolo local elections
There are a total of 336,773 people who voted out of the 482,062 registered voters. Andrea Ynares and Josefina Gatlabayan won the elections undefeated as mayor and vice mayor (for the second time) respectively.


2019 Antipolo local elections, Mayoral and Vice Mayoral elections, Mayor
Incumbent mayor Casimiro "Jun" Ynares III is not running. His wife and Bong Revilla's sister Andrea Bautista-Ynares is his party's nominee and is running unopposed.


2019 Antipolo local elections, District representatives, 1st District
Chiqui Roa-Puno is not running. Her husband, former Congressman Roberto Puno, will run in her stead and will be challenged by Macario Aggarao.


2019 Antipolo local elections, District representatives, 2nd District
Romeo Acop is term-limited as he has reached the maximum three-term limit for any elective official. His wife, Doktora Acop, will run in his stead unopposed.


2019 Antipolo local elections, Board Members, 1st District
Rico De Guzman is running for councilor of the said district. Roberto Puno's son, Randy Puno, will run in his stead unopposed, since Delfin Bacon withdrew his candidacy.


2019 Antipolo local elections, Board Members, 2nd District
Joel Huertas is term-limited and is running for councilor of the said district. Former councilor Bobot Marquez will run in his stead and will be challenged by Edelberto Coronado.


2019 Antipolo local elections, City Council, By ticket
With Ynares & Gatlabayan running unopposed, Team Ynares is the only ticket for this election.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Antrim Senior Football Championship is the 117th official edition of Antrim GAA's premier club gaelic football tournament for senior clubs in County Antrim. 13 teams compete with the winners receiving the Padraig McNamee Cup and representing Antrim in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The Antrim championship has a straight knock-out format.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship
Naomh Éanna and Gort na Móna returned to the S.F.C. this year after claiming the 2018 I.F.C. and I.F.L. titles respectively.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship
Erin's Own Cargin were the defending champions after they defeated Creggan Kickhams in the 2018 final.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship
St. Mary's Ahoghill and St. Teresa's were relegated after finishing 11th and 12th respectively in the S.F.L. They'll be replaced in 2020 by St. James' (I.F.C. Champions) and O'Donovan Rossa (I.F.L. Champions).


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship
On 12 October 2019, Erin's Own Cargin claimed their 9th S.F.C. and successfully defended their crown when defeating Lámh Dhearg 3-16 to 0-23 after extra time in the final replay at Corrigan Park.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship, Round 1
7 of the 13 senior clubs play in this round. The 4 winners and the 4 teams who received byes compete in the Quarter-Finals. The 4 losing teams exit the championship.


2019 Antrim Senior Football Championship, Quarter-Finals
The four 2018 S.F.C. Semi-Finalists received a bye to this years Quarter-Finals.


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election
Elections to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council using Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party were the largest party in both first-preference votes and seats.


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by party
The overall turnout was 49.16% with a total of 47,989 valid votes cast. A total of 537 ballots were rejected.


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Airport
2014: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP2019: 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from UUP


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Antrim
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP2014-2019 Change: No change


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Ballyclare
2014: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x TUV2019: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Independent2014-2019 Change: Independent gain one seat from TUV


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Dunsilly
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP2019: 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from DUP


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Glengormley Urban
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain one seat from UUP


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Macedon
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 X UUP, 1 x TUV2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain one seat from TUV


2019 Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Three Mile Water
2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from UUP


2019 Aomori gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held on 2 June 2019 to elect the next Governor of Aomori.


2019 Aphrodite Women Cup
The 2019 Aphrodite Women Cup was the 4th edition of Aphrodite Women Cup, a friendly association football tournament played in Cyprus.


2019 Aphrodite Women Cup, Goalscorers
There have been 5 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 1.25 goals per match.


2019 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team
The 2019 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers were led by first-year head coach Eliah Drinkwitz through the team's win in the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game, after which he left to fill the head coaching vacancy at Missouri. Shawn Clark led the team during their bowl game appearance. Appalachian State played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium on the school's Boone, North Carolina, campus, and competed as a member of the East Division of the Sun Belt Conference.


2019 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team, Previous season
The Mountaineers finished the 2018 season 12–1, 7–1 in Sun Belt play to be co-champions of the East Division with Troy. Due to their head-to-head win over Troy, they represented the East Division in the inaugural Sun Belt Championship Game where they defeated West Division champion Louisiana to become Sun Belt Champions for the third consecutive year and first time outright. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they defeated Middle Tennessee.


2019 Arab Athletics Championships
The 2019 Arab Athletics Championships was the twentieth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries that took place from 5–8 April 2019 at Cairo, Egypt.


2019 Arab Athletics Championships
The medal table was topped by Bahrain followed by Morocco and the host nation Egypt.


2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final
The 2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final was the final match of the 2018–19 Arab Club Champions Cup, the 28th season of the Arab League's main club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the 1st season since it was renamed from the Arab Club Championship to the Arab Club Champions Cup.


2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final
The match was played by Étoile Sportive du Sahel of Tunisia and Al Hilal SFC of Saudi Arabia, and held at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.


2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final
Étoile Sportive du Sahel defeated Al-Hilal SFC 2–1 in the final and won the title for the first time in their history, becoming the third Tunisian team to win the competition in the last five editions.


2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final, Venue
The Hazza bin Zayed Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, located in the City of Al Ain, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is the home stadium of Al Ain FC of the UAE Pro-League. The stadium holds 22,717 spectators and opened in 2014. The stadium was named after the chairman of the club, Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.


2019 Arab Club Champions Cup Final, Venue
The 45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft) Hazza bin Zayed stadium is split over seven levels, and is one of the most modern sporting venues in the Middle East. It is one of the most sophisticated sports venues in the region.


2019 Arab Youth Athletics Championships
The 2019 Arab Youth Athletics Championships was the seventh edition of the international athletics competition for under-18 athletes from Arab countries. Organised by the Arab Athletic Federation, it took place in Tunisia Radès from 4–7 July. A total of forty events were contested, of which 20 by male and 20 by female athletes.


2019 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2019 Aragon motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2019 MotoGP season. It was held at the Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in Alcañiz on 22 September 2019.


2019 Aragonese regional election
The 2019 Aragonese regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Cortes of the autonomous community of Aragon. All 67 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.


2019 Aragonese regional election
The election resulted in the most fragmented parliament to date, with up to eight parliamentary groups being formed. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerged as the largest political party and was able to retain government throughout a diverse coalition agreement including Podemos, the Aragonese Party (PAR) and the Aragonese Union (CHA).


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Cortes of Aragon were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Aragon, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Aragonese Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Voting for the Cortes was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in Aragon and in full enjoyment of their political rights. Additionally, Aragonese people abroad were required to apply for voting before being permitted to vote, a system known as "begged" or expat vote (Spanish: Voto rogado). The 67 members of the Cortes of Aragon were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Huesca, Teruel and Zaragoza, with each being allocated an initial minimum of 13 seats and the remaining 28 being distributed in proportion to their populations (provided that the seat-to-population ratio in the most populated province did not exceed 2.75 times that of the least populated one).


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Cortes of Aragon expired four years after the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of Aragon (BOA), with election day taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication. The previous election was held on 24 May 2015, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 24 May 2019. The election decree was required to be published in the BOA no later than 30 April 2019, with the election taking place on the fifty-fourth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Assembly on Sunday, 23 June 2019.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Overview, Election date
The president had the prerogative to dissolve the Cortes of Aragon and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. In the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot, the Cortes were to be automatically dissolved and a fresh election called.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Parliamentary composition
The Cortes of Aragon were officially dissolved on 2 April 2019, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official Gazette of Aragon. The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the Cortes at the time of dissolution.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


2019 Aragonese regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 34 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Cortes of Aragon.


2019 Aragonese regional election, Opinion polls
Poll conducted after legal ban on opinion polls  Exit poll


2019 ArbCom election RfC notifications
After the 2018 ArbCom Election, multiple users requested to be notified when the 2019 ArbCom Election RfC would take place. I have generated this list based on the one .


2019 Archery World Cup
The 2019 Archery World Cup, also known as the Hyundai Archery World Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 14th edition of the international archery circuit organised annually by World Archery. The 2019 World Cup consisted of five events, and ran from 22 April to 7 September 2019.


2019 Archery World Cup, Calendar
The calendar for the 2019 World Cup, announced by World Archery.


2019 Arctic Race of Norway
The 2019 Arctic Race of Norway was a four-stage cycling stage race that took place in Norway between 15 and 18 August. It was the seventh edition of the Arctic Race of Norway and is rated as a 2.HC event as part of the UCI Europe Tour.


2019 Arctic Race of Norway, Teams
Twenty teams of up to six riders were invited to take part in the race. Of these teams, four were UCI WorldTeams, thirteen were UCI Professional Continental teams, and three were UCI Continental teams.


2019 Arctic Race of Norway, Classifications
The race included four main classifications: the general classification (represented by a yellow and orange jersey), the points classification (represented by a green jersey), the mountains classification (represented by a salmon jersey) and the youth classification (represented by a white jersey). There was also an award for the most aggressive rider on each stage and a team classification.


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election
The second election to Ards and North Down Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party once again won a plurality of seats.


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by party
The overall turnout was 43.80% with a total of 50,206 valid votes cast. A total of 660 ballots were rejected.


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Ards Peninsula
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance2014-2019 Change: No change


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Bangor Central
2014:  2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Greens2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Greens, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent 2014-2019 Change: Independent gains one seat from UUP


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Bangor East and Donaghadee
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent2019: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent2014-2019 Change: UUP gain one seat from DUP


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Bangor West
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from DUP


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Comber
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV2014-2019 Change: No change


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Holywood and Clandeboye
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x Green, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from DUP


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Results by electoral area, Newtownards
2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain one seat from UUP


2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election, Changes during the term, – Suspensions
Colin Kennedy (DUP) was suspended from the council for six weeks from Friday 18 June 2021.


2019 Arema F.C. season
The 2019 Arema F.C. season is Arema's 32nd competitive season. The club will compete in Indonesia League 1, Piala Indonesia and Indonesia President's Cup. Arema Football Club a professional football club based in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. The season covers the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.


2019 Arema F.C. season, Squad information, First team squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2019 Arema F.C. season, Statistics, Top scorers
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.


2019 Arena Football League season
The 2019 Arena Football League season was the 32nd and final season in the history of the Arena Football League (AFL). Prior to the start of the season, the league expanded from four to six teams with two added expansion teams. The 12-game regular season began on April 26 and ended on July 21.


2019 Arena Football League season, League business, Teams
For the first time since 2011, the AFL entered the season with more teams than it had the previous season, adding an expansion team and reactivating another that had been dormant for over a decade.


2019 Arena Football League season, League business, Teams
The league announced the Atlantic City Blackjacks expansion team on January 22, 2019, that is operated by the same ownership group as the Albany Empire. On February 7, 2019, the league re-added the Columbus Destroyers as another expansion team to bring the league back to six teams.


2019 Arena Football League season, League business, Schedule and playoff changes
The 2019 season consisted of a 13-week schedule during which each team played 12 games and had one bye week.


2019 Arena Football League season, League business, Schedule and playoff changes
At the end of the regular season, the top four teams participated in the ArenaBowl playoffs, in which the top seed faced the fourth seed while the second seed faced the third seed in a home-and-home series. The team in each series with the highest aggregate score advanced to the ArenaBowl. If the aggregate score in either series was tied after the second game in the home-and-home semifinals, the game would have continued in the AFL's standard overtime format. While the semifinals consisted of two games in each pairing, ArenaBowl XXXII was still one game.


2019 Arena Football League season, League business, Closure
The AFL announced it had closed its teams' local operations on October 29, following that with a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation filing November 27.


2019 Arena Football League season, Final season standings
y - clinched regular season titlex - clinched playoff berth


2019 Arena Football League season, Attendance
Announced attendance figures for each home game. In the weekly columns, dashes (—) indicate away games or a bye week, while bold font indicates the highest attendance of each team.


2019 Argentina Open
The 2019 Argentina Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 22nd edition of the ATP Buenos Aires event, and part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the 2019 ATP Tour. It took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from February 11 through 17, 2019.


2019 Argentina Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Argentina Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2019 Argentina Open – Doubles
Andrés Molteni and Horacio Zeballos were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Molteni played alongside Roman Jebavý, but lost in the quarterfinals to Marco Cecchinato and Dušan Lajović.


2019 Argentina Open – Doubles
Zeballos successfully defended the title alongside Máximo González, defeating Diego Schwartzman and Dominic Thiem in the final, 6–1, 6–1.


2019 Argentina Open – Singles
Dominic Thiem was the defending champion, but lost to Diego Schwartzman in the semifinals.


2019 Argentina Open – Singles
Marco Cecchinato won the title, defeating Schwartzman in the final, 6–1, 6–2.


2019 Argentina Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2019 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament
The 2019 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament was the 11th edition of the women's national tournament. It was going to be held from 3 to 6 October 2019 in Mendoza, Argentina.


2019 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament
Mendoza achieved its third title after beating Cordoba 3-0 at the final.


2019 Argentina Women's Hockey National Tournament, Squads
Players followed with a country flag are those involved in its senior national team.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout
On 16 June 2019, a large-scale power outage struck most of Argentina, all of Uruguay, and parts of Paraguay, leaving an estimated total of 48 million people without electrical supply.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout
By the following day it was confirmed that power had been restored to most of Argentina and Uruguay, and Argentine President Mauricio Macri promised a full investigation.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout
The blackout is believed to have been caused by an operational misbehavior from Transener, a transmission lines operator in Argentina. A 500 kV line running from Colonia Elía to Campana, crossing the Paraná Guazú river, was down on undergoing maintenance to repair the tower number 412, whose base had been suffering from erosion by the river.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout
The company made a bypass for this tasks, using a nearby overhead line, but missed to reflect that network grid change in the Automatic Generation Shutdown system (in spanish: DAG), which is designed to alert energy generators of network changes that would require a lower of energy generation. This caused, after a short circuit which lowered demand, an excess of power generation in the grid, a lack of synchronization of power plants, loss of balance, and a low frequency in the network.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout
In about 30 seconds, a succession of automatic disconnections from the grid caused a blackout that came to affect 50 million users in the continent.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Timeline
At 7:07 a.m. (UTC-3) on 16 June 2019, Argentina's power grid "collapsed", according to Gustavo Lopetegui, the country's Energy Secretary. The failure occurred in the Argentine Interconnection System. In total, an estimated 48 million people lost power. The blackout affected most of Argentina (Tierra del Fuego in the country's far south was not affected) and Uruguay, along with parts of Paraguay. Although some media reported blackouts in parts of Chile and parts of southern Brazil, this claim was denied by the Chilean and Brazilian national authorities. Argentina's President Mauricio Macri called it "unprecedented".


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Timeline
Argentine distributor of electricity Edesur announced on Twitter at 7:50 a.m. that all of Argentina and Uruguay had lost power as a result of the incident. It caused disruptions in subways and trains, but did not affect electric and non-electric airborne transport. According to Edesur, power had already been restored to some parts of Buenos Aires by 10 a.m.; Edesur reported that it might take many hours to restore power to all affected customers. By 1:30 p.m. power had been restored across 75% of Uruguay. By mid-afternoon 50,000 people had power restored in Argentina; north of Río Negro, coastal cities and the metropolitan areas of Uruguay also had power restored, as confirmed via Twitter by Uruguay's government-owned power company UTE. By the evening, it was announced that power had been restored to 98% of Argentina.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Timeline
By 17 June, it was confirmed that power had been restored to most of Argentina and Uruguay. Argentine President Macri promised a full investigation. Citing official sources, Argentine media reported that the outage was linked to a failure in the transmission of electricity from the Yacyretá hydroelectric dam.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Impact
Because the distribution of drinking water was affected by the power outage, Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos, one of Argentina's biggest water companies, warned people without power to limit their use of water.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Impact
The blackout had an impact on local gubernatorial elections taking place in Argentina, where the lack of power forced voters to fill out ballots in the dark, using their mobile phones as flashlights. In some regions of the country, the elections were postponed by authorities.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Impact
Medical patients who were dependent upon home equipment were urged to attend local hospitals, where similar devices were still operational, as they were powered by backup generators.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Investigation
Investigations into the cause of the outage are being undertaken by both Edesur and the Argentine government.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Investigation
An independent energy expert in Argentina attributed a role in the blackout to "systemic operational and design errors" in the country's energy infrastructure.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Investigation
Argentine Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui said it was unlikely to have been caused by a cyberattack.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Investigation
Preliminary reports suggested that the blackout likely originated from a fault in a 500 kV circuit from the municipality of Colonia Elía to Belgrano, a suburb of Buenos Aires. A second 500 kV circuit from Colonia Elía to Mercedes subsequently tripped under automatic action; the cause of that trip is still under investigation. A third 500 kV line from Colonia Elía to Nueva Campana was out of service at the time owing to construction work.


2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout, Aftermath
The Ente Nacional Regulador de la Electricidad will apply fines to the wholesaler energy distributor Transener. According to regulations, the maximum fine can be either 10% of the annual earnings or 50% of the monthly ones; Transener earned $9,838.5 million in 2018. Distributors Edenor and Edesur turned off 38% of the service, which harmed the situation as it was required a 52% to compensate the outage. Cammesa, the institution that regulates those distributors, explained that this was an automatic process, and that this failure was a consequence of badly programmed systems. Cammesa would redirect the money of the fees to the users, who would get a tax credit as compensation. Those credits would be of a uniform amount, unrelated to the actual time each user was without energy.


2019 Argentine general election
General elections were held in Argentina on 27 October 2019, to elect the president of Argentina, members of the national congress and the governors of most provinces. Former Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernández of Frente de Todos defeated incumbent president Mauricio Macri of Juntos por el Cambio, exceeding the threshold to win the presidency in a single round. Macri became the first incumbent president in Argentine history to be defeated in his reelection bid.


2019 Argentine general election, Electoral system
The election of the president was conducted under the ballotage system, a modified version of the two-round system. A candidate can win the presidency in a single round by either winning 45% of the vote, or if they win 40% of the vote while finishing 10 percentage points ahead of the second-place candidate. If no candidate meets either threshold, a runoff takes place between the top two candidates. Voting is compulsory for citizens between 18 and 70 years old. Suffrage was also extended to 16- and 17-year-olds, though without compulsory voting.


2019 Argentine general election, Electoral system
There are a total of 257 seats of the Chamber of Deputies. They are elected from 24 electoral districts–the 23 provinces, plus the federal district of Buenos Aires, which elects its own executive and legislature and is represented in the national Congress like all other provinces. The number of seats are distributed in relation to the population of the province. One-third of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies are reserved for women. The 130 seats of the Chamber of Deputies up for election were elected from 24 multi-member constituencies based on the 23 provinces and Buenos Aires. Seats were allocated using the D'Hondt method of proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of 3%.


2019 Argentine general election, Electoral system
The 24 seats in the Senate up for election were elected in three-seat constituencies using the closed list system. Each district is represented by three senatorial seats. Each party is allowed to register up to two candidates; one of those registered must be female. The party receiving the most votes wins two seats, and the second-placed party wins one. The third senatorial seat was established in the Constitution of 1994 in order to better represent the largest minority in each district.


2019 Argentine general election, Electoral system, Congress, Chamber of Deputies
The 257 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected by proportional representation in 24 multi-member constituencies based on the provinces (plus the City of Buenos Aires). Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with a 3% electoral threshold. In this election, 130 of the 257 seats are up for renewal for a 4-year term.


2019 Argentine general election, Electoral system, Congress, Senate
The 72 members of the Senate are elected in the same 24 constituencies, with three seats in each. The party receiving the most votes in each constituency wins two seats, with the third seat awarded to the second-placed party. The 2019 elections will see one-third of Senators renewed, with eight provinces electing three Senators for a 6-year term; Buenos Aires City, Chaco, Entre Ríos, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego.


2019 Argentine general election, Candidates
The following candidates successfully registered their nominations before the limit date of 22 June 2019, and went on to compete in the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) on 11 August 2019.


2019 Argentine general election, Results, Primary elections
Open primary elections for the Presidency were held nationwide on 11 August. With this system, all parties run primary elections on a single ballot. All parties must take part in it, both the parties with internal factions and parties with a single candidate list. Citizens may vote for any candidate of any party, but may only cast a single vote. The most voted candidate of parties gaining 1.5% or higher of the valid votes advances to the general election.


2019 Argentine general election, Results, Primary elections
Fernández came top with 47.8% of the vote, with Macri trailing behind with 31.8%. Lavagna, del Caño, Gómez Centurión and Espert all received enough valid votes to participate in the general election.


2019 Argentine general election, Results, President
Fernández owed his victory mostly to Buenos Aires Province swinging over dramatically to support him; he carried it by over 1.6 million votes over Macri, accounting for almost all of his nationwide margin of 2.1 million votes. By comparison, Daniel Scioli only carried the province by 219,000 votes in 2015.


2019 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2019 Argentine motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2019 MotoGP season. It was held at the Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo in Santiago del Estero on 31 March 2019.


2019 Arizona Bowl
The 2019 Arizona Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2019, with kickoff at 4:30 p.m. EST (2:30 p.m. local MST) on CBS Sports Network. It was the 5th edition of the Arizona Bowl, and one of the 2019–20 bowl games concluding the 2019 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Nova Home Loans mortgage broker company, the game was officially known as the Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl.


2019 Arizona Bowl, Teams
The game was played between the Wyoming Cowboys from the Mountain West Conference and the Georgia State Panthers from the Sun Belt Conference. This was the first time that the two programs met, and the first Arizona Bowl appearance for both programs.


2019 Arizona Bowl, Teams, Wyoming Cowboys
Wyoming entered the game with a 7–5 record (4–4 in conference), having lost three of four games to end their regular season. They finished in fourth place in Mountain West's Mountain Division. The Cowboys lost to the only ranked FBS team they faced, Boise State.


2019 Arizona Bowl, Teams, Georgia State Panthers
Georgia State also entered the game with a 7–5 record (4–4 in conference), also having lost three of four games to end their regular season. They finished in third place in the Sun Belt's East Division. The Panthers also lost to the only ranked FBS team they faced, Appalachian State.


2019 Arizona Cardinals season
The 2019 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 100th in the National Football League (NFL), their 32nd in Arizona and their first under head coach Kliff Kingsbury, following the firing of former head coach Steve Wilks the previous season. During the offseason, the Cardinals' home stadium was renamed from University of Phoenix Stadium to State Farm Stadium. The Cardinals were one of two current teams, along with the Chicago Bears, who were among the 14 charter members of the American Professional Football Association, which later became the NFL, that celebrated its 100th season in 2019. The Cardinals improved on their 3–13 campaign in 2018. However, they were mathematically eliminated from  playoff contention for the fourth straight season after a Week 13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams.


2019 Arizona Cardinals season
Bill Bidwill, who had owned the team since 1972, died on October 2, 2019, at the age of 88.


2019 Arizona Cardinals season, Offseason, Draft
The Cardinals selected Washington State safety Jalen Thompson in the fifth round of the 2019 supplemental draft that was held on July 10. As a result, the Cardinals will forfeit their fifth-round selection during the 2020 draft.


2019 Arizona Cardinals season, Offseason, Draft
In addition to receiving the number one overall draft pick, the Cardinals also have the top spot on the waiver wire by virtue of having the worst record in the NFL during the 2018 season. The Cardinals picked up Pharoh Cooper (wide receiver, previously from the Los Angeles Rams), D. J. Swearinger (safety, previously from the Washington Redskins), Tanner Vallejo (linebacker, previously from the Cleveland Browns), Robert Alford (cornerback, previously from the Atlanta Falcons), Brooks Reed (outside linebacker, previously from the Atlanta Falcons), and Charles Clay (tight end, previously from the Buffalo Bills).


2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season
The 2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season was the franchise's 22nd season in Major League Baseball and their 22nd season at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona as members of the National League West Division. They were managed by Torey Lovullo in his third season with the franchise.


2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season
The 2019 Diamondbacks were the first team in Major League history to have their road opener against one reigning pennant winner (Dodgers) and their home opener against the other (Red Sox) in the same season. Despite improving upon their 82–80 record from last season, the Diamondbacks were eliminated from postseason contention for the second consecutive year after a loss to the Cardinals on September 23.


2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season
The 2019 Diamondbacks were by one measure the "most average team" in baseball history. For 60 games, the Diamondbacks were within two games of .500 (plus or minus), an MLB record that surpassed a 56-game streak by the 2007 Oakland Athletics. The stretch lasted from June 18, when the Diamondbacks lost to the Colorado Rockies to fall to 38-36, through August 30, when they beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to improve to 69-66.


2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season
The Diamondbacks broke a league record alongside the Philadelphia Phillies this season for most home-runs in one game, smashing a franchise record 8 home-runs out of 13 total in a 13–8 win on June 10. Additionally, the Diamondbacks set a franchise record on September 24/25, when their game against the Cardinals lasted 19 innings, the longest game by innings played in Diamondbacks' history and, at 6 hours and 53 minutes from start to finish, the longest game ever played at Chase Field.


2019 Arizona Diamondbacks season
Having used 30 players in this game, the Diamondbacks set another franchise record in that respect, and, with 25 strikeouts by Diamondbacks pitchers and 21 by Cardinals pitchers, both teams tied a Major League Baseball record for most strikeouts in a single game at 46, the game also marking only the second time in baseball history that two teams struck out 21 or more opponents in the same game. The Diamondbacks won the game, 3–2.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team
The 2019 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team represents Arizona State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Sun Devils played their home games at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, off campus in Phoenix, Arizona. Tracy Smith is in his fifth season as the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball head coach.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils football team
The 2019 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Herm Edwards and played their home games at Sun Devil Stadium.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Preseason, Pac-12 Media Days, Pac-12 media poll
In the 2019 Pac-12 preseason media poll, Arizona State was voted to finish tied for third place with UCLA in the South Division.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Schedule
Arizona State will open its 2019 schedule with three non-conference games against Kent State of the Mid-American Conference, Sacramento State of the Big Sky Conference, and Michigan State of the Big Ten Conference. In Pac-12 Conference play, the Sun Devils will play the other members of the South Division and draws California, Oregon, Oregon State, and Washington State from the North Division.


2019 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Game summaries, Oregon
Jayden Daniels broke Rudy Carpenter's record for passing yards in a season for a freshman quarterback.


2019 Arizona Tennis Classic
The 2019 Arizona Tennis Classic was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2019 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Phoenix, United States between 11 and 17 March 2019.


2019 Arizona Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2019 Arizona Tennis Classic, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2019 Arizona Tennis Classic – Doubles
Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski won the title after defeating Austin Krajicek and Artem Sitak 6–7(2–7), 7–5, [10–6] in the final.


2019 Arizona Tennis Classic – Singles
Matteo Berrettini won the title after defeating Mikhail Kukushkin 3–6, 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–2) in the final.


2019 Arizona Wildcats baseball team
The 2019 Arizona Wildcats baseball team represented the University of Arizona in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Wildcats played their home games for the 8th season at Hi Corbett Field. The team was coached by Jay Johnson in his 4th season at Arizona.