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Seclantas — Municipal council

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Argentina · Seclantas / Salta / MOLINOS · municipal · Municipal councilAR-SA-C-52

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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
Seclantas / Salta / MOLINOS
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-e827d495cda846796ad220ac
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

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA58.1%
  • FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA24.0%
  • JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO11.9%
  • FRENTE AVANCEMOS6.0%
Results for event-a201b440358053af5750245c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · PISTAN, NESTOR "RENÉ"4argentina/S42d94fc5d874/20231,18258.1%2Recorded
FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA · MUÑOZ, AGUSTIN DANIEL3744argentina/S42d94fc5d874/202348824%1Recorded
JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO · COSTELLO GRINBERG, PABLO MARIANO3746argentina/S42d94fc5d874/202324311.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AVANCEMOS · CANAVIDES, GABRIELA ALEJANDRA3739argentina/S42d94fc5d874/20231226%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-08-15

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • GANA SALTA68.3%
  • UNIDOS POR SALTA31.7%
Results for event-b09d385a9418524ed6e9722b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
GANA SALTA · MORALES, GABRIEL JOVITO3643argentina/Sa0f09a5cc896/20211,32568.3%2Recorded
UNIDOS POR SALTA · CASIMIRO, JORGE IVAN3642argentina/Sa0f09a5cc896/202161431.7%1Recorded

2019-11-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA70.9%
  • PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA12.4%
  • PARTIDO AUTONOMISTA11.4%
  • PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA5.3%
Results for event-f4af27b776fc3babfd2abb31
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · LOPEZ, NORBERTO FIDEL4argentina/S0125e730f98b/20191,34570.9%3Recorded
PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA · ZENTENO, ALAN JOSE1053argentina/S0125e730f98b/201923512.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AUTONOMISTA · ABAN, ARNALDO "CHITO"2625argentina/S0125e730f98b/201921611.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · CASIMIRO, SOL CAMILA13argentina/S0125e730f98b/20191005.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=34.1031941031941, oldest_gap=58.54430379746836, previous_gap=36.66838576585869

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=[[58.08353808353808,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.91646191646192],null,[70.93881856540085,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.061181434599156]]

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=[[58.08353808353808,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.91646191646192],null,[70.93881856540085,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.061181434599156]]

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=[[58.08353808353808,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.91646191646192],null,[70.93881856540085,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.061181434599156]]

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?
LOPEZ, NORBERTO FIDELLead council candidate2019PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
CASIMIRO, SOL CAMILALead council candidate2019PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIAunknown
ZENTENO, ALAN JOSELead council candidate2019PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑAunknown
ABAN, ARNALDO "CHITO"Lead council candidate2019PARTIDO AUTONOMISTAunknown
MORALES, GABRIEL JOVITOLead council candidate2021GANA SALTAunknown
CASIMIRO, JORGE IVANLead council candidate2021UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown
PISTAN, NESTOR "RENÉ"Lead council candidate2023PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
MUÑOZ, AGUSTIN DANIELLead council candidate2023FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown
COSTELLO GRINBERG, PABLO MARIANOLead council candidate2023JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIOunknown
CANAVIDES, GABRIELA ALEJANDRALead council candidate2023FRENTE AVANCEMOSunknown

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. “Seclantas — Municipal council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-C-52. Sources: argentina--url-3f583f4d41913147a0ba4d8a, argentina--url-02f8ce8e51be206477732724, argentina--url-82cc59ccb78f3636f42324d6, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--S42d94fc5d874, argentina--Sa0f09a5cc896, argentina--S0125e730f98b.