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Molinos — Municipal council

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Argentina · Molinos / Salta / MOLINOS · municipal · Municipal councilAR-SA-C-51

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Final province archive, including 2017 Coronel Moldes, 2021 Aguaray and 2025 Rivadavia Banda Norte replacements. Council renewal size changed after the constitutional/charter transition; the elected cohort is preserved. Future formal call and independently verified current control remain open.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
Molinos / Salta / MOLINOS
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-ea531008d44345cfaa37a3ac
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027; formal call pending is expected (not formally called). Year precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2023-05-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA41.6%
  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA36.8%
  • FRENTE AVANCEMOS13.0%
  • JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO8.6%
Results for event-2976d09be1dcdb820f81256d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA · GUTIERREZ, EDGARDO EMANUEL3744argentina/S205cb80ff745/202363741.6%2Recorded
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · MORALES, NICOLAS "MARADONA"4argentina/S205cb80ff745/202356436.8%1Recorded
FRENTE AVANCEMOS · CHOCOBAR, "JOSHY"3739argentina/S205cb80ff745/202319913%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO · RUEDA, DAVID3746argentina/S205cb80ff745/20231328.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-08-15

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • GANA SALTA54.3%
  • UNIDOS POR SALTA45.7%
Results for event-073c7ef09b2c0abc2a5264d3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
GANA SALTA · ZENTENO, ANA LAURA3643argentina/S00e151edf194/202173754.3%2Recorded
UNIDOS POR SALTA · LOPEZ, JOSE FEDERICO3642argentina/S00e151edf194/202162145.7%1Recorded

2019-11-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA41.7%
  • PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA29.4%
  • PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA29.0%
Results for event-7adba099c119afe4491d45d8
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · YAPURA, KARINA MARGARITA4argentina/S82f3b2a1034d/201966341.7%1Recorded
PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA · RIOS, RENZO ADRIAN1053argentina/S82f3b2a1034d/201946729.4%1Recorded
PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · LIENDRO, JESUS ALEJANDRO13argentina/S82f3b2a1034d/201946129%1Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

66.730–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=4.765013054830284, oldest_gap=12.31929604022627, previous_gap=8.541973490427097

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine exact standalone party-name categories in the archived returns; accents normalized. Provincial alliances and renamed coalitions remain Other. A category records its published name, not a verified legal succession or inferred allocation of alliance votes. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Latest interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA","UNION CIVICA RADICAL","PARTIDO SOCIALISTA","PRO - PROPUESTA REPUBLICANA","COALICION CIVICA - AFIRMACION PARA UNA REPUBLICA IGUALITARIA","GEN","PARTIDO OBRERO","PARTIDO DE LOS TRABAJADORES SOCIALISTAS","MOVIMIENTO SOCIALISTA DE LOS TRABAJADORES","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[36.81462140992167,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,63.18537859007833],null,[41.671904462602136,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,58.328095537397864]]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine exact standalone party-name categories in the archived returns; accents normalized. Provincial alliances and renamed coalitions remain Other. A category records its published name, not a verified legal succession or inferred allocation of alliance votes. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Previous interval · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA","UNION CIVICA RADICAL","PARTIDO SOCIALISTA","PRO - PROPUESTA REPUBLICANA","COALICION CIVICA - AFIRMACION PARA UNA REPUBLICA IGUALITARIA","GEN","PARTIDO OBRERO","PARTIDO DE LOS TRABAJADORES SOCIALISTAS","MOVIMIENTO SOCIALISTA DE LOS TRABAJADORES","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[36.81462140992167,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,63.18537859007833],null,[41.671904462602136,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,58.328095537397864]]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Nine exact standalone party-name categories in the archived returns; accents normalized. Provincial alliances and renamed coalitions remain Other. A category records its published name, not a verified legal succession or inferred allocation of alliance votes. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Both intervals mean · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA","UNION CIVICA RADICAL","PARTIDO SOCIALISTA","PRO - PROPUESTA REPUBLICANA","COALICION CIVICA - AFIRMACION PARA UNA REPUBLICA IGUALITARIA","GEN","PARTIDO OBRERO","PARTIDO DE LOS TRABAJADORES SOCIALISTAS","MOVIMIENTO SOCIALISTA DE LOS TRABAJADORES","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[36.81462140992167,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,63.18537859007833],null,[41.671904462602136,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,58.328095537397864]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
YAPURA, KARINA MARGARITALead council candidate2019PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
LIENDRO, JESUS ALEJANDROLead council candidate2019PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIAunknown
RIOS, RENZO ADRIANLead council candidate2019PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑAunknown
ZENTENO, ANA LAURALead council candidate2021GANA SALTAunknown
LOPEZ, JOSE FEDERICOLead council candidate2021UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown
GUTIERREZ, EDGARDO EMANUELLead council candidate2023FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown
MORALES, NICOLAS "MARADONA"Lead council candidate2023PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
CHOCOBAR, "JOSHY"Lead council candidate2023FRENTE AVANCEMOSunknown
RUEDA, DAVIDLead council candidate2023JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIOunknown

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

National context is listed on the polling page. It is not a local forecast.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

Final province archive, including 2017 Coronel Moldes, 2021 Aguaray and 2025 Rivadavia Banda Norte replacements. Council renewal size changed after the constitutional/charter transition; the elected cohort is preserved. Future formal call and independently verified current control remain open. Missing older local results in several provincial datasets, full seat proclamations, intervened/replacement contests and dated coalition control. Many municipalities vote separately from provincial election day. Final 2027 calls remain subject to official publication. Ten Catamarca 2023 local returns now have primary provisional counts; final certification and older cycles are still missing. DINE 2015 download has no Catamarca local records. Entre Ríos final national consultation warns that foreign-voter tables are excluded. Neuquén final-file links returned access-denied responses; several older links point to private or defunct hosts.

  • other · open

    2019 locality result empty: {"issue": "2019 locality result empty", "name": "Distrito Tala-Sarandí", "code": "0079C"}

  • other · open

    Earlier same-election publication superseded: {"id": "AR-TU-D-OESTE", "year": 2019, "issue": "Earlier same-election publication superseded", "selected_publication": "2019-07-02", "discarded_publications": ["2019-06-15"]}

  • other · open

    Archive navigation year differs from date printed in source: {"file": "ar_formosa_2017_archivo_542.pdf", "issue": "Archive navigation year differs from date printed in source", "navigation_year": 2017, "source_date": "2019-06-16"}

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “Molinos — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-C-51. Sources: argentina--url-d0cbb6bee77911c3bfbcd08b, argentina--url-4b83f339793652a2b747dc2b, argentina--url-41151434cc48775b6aea5097, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--S205cb80ff745, argentina--S00e151edf194, argentina--S82f3b2a1034d.