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Office briefing

La Caldera — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Argentina · La Caldera / Salta / LA CALDERA · municipal · MayorAR-SA-M-03

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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
La Caldera / Salta / LA CALDERA
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-e2046aa557db9ce944ad4e5a
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 VAMOS SALTA41.4%
  • PRIMERO SALTA40.7%
  • JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO7.2%
  • SI - SALTA INDEPENDIENTE6.0%
  • FRENTE SALTA VA CON FELICIDAD4.6%
Results for event-06fd1d386a40685fe5232ca3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
FRENTE VAMOS SALTA · SUMBAY, DIEGO RAMIRO3745argentina/Se5c6a60a6ebe/20231,50741.4%1Recorded
PRIMERO SALTA · CALABRO, MIGUEL1862argentina/Se5c6a60a6ebe/20231,48040.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO · AGUILAR, LEONARDO GASTON3746argentina/Se5c6a60a6ebe/20232637.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SI - SALTA INDEPENDIENTE · QUIPILDOR, HORACIO "FOFORITO"2543argentina/Se5c6a60a6ebe/20232186%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE SALTA VA CON FELICIDAD · DR. SOSA, FERNANDO DAVID3743argentina/Se5c6a60a6ebe/20231684.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-11-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO COMUNITARIO PLURICULTURAL LA CALDERA44.7%
  • SAENZ GOBERNADOR42.2%
  • FRENTE DE TODOS8.5%
  • OLMEDO GOBERNADOR4.6%
Results for event-628b03c8be9fb7cad15163d3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO COMUNITARIO PLURICULTURAL LA CALDERA · SUMBAY, DIEGO RAMIRO2551argentina/Sbbb4209d85da/20191,37044.7%1Recorded
SAENZ GOBERNADOR · MAURIN, "LILI"3432argentina/Sbbb4209d85da/20191,29542.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE DE TODOS · MOLINA, ROSSANA EVANGELINA3433argentina/Sbbb4209d85da/20192618.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
OLMEDO GOBERNADOR · GUITIAN, LEONARDO RAFAEL3434argentina/Sbbb4209d85da/20191404.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-05-17

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA42.1%
  • FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO40.8%
  • PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA12.8%
  • UNION VICTORIA POPULAR2.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION LATINOAMERICANA DE EXPRESION SOCIAL (M.I.L.E.S.)1.5%
Results for event-8a082ff7549f72f62e0bef54
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · ESCALERA, DANIEL ALEJANDRO4argentina/S7ff5702b592e/201598142.1%1Recorded
FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO · FIGUEROA, DAVID ERMENEGILDO1688argentina/S7ff5702b592e/201595040.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · ABILES, MARIA SILVINA13argentina/S7ff5702b592e/201529812.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNION VICTORIA POPULAR · MAMANI, MARIANA RAQUEL17argentina/S7ff5702b592e/2015652.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION LATINOAMERICANA DE EXPRESION SOCIAL (M.I.L.E.S.) · VELEZ, HUGO NORBERTO931argentina/S7ff5702b592e/2015361.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

93.440–100 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=0.7425742574257441, oldest_gap=1.3304721030042899, previous_gap=2.4461839530332696

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=[null,null,[42.103004291845494,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,57.896995708154506]]

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=[null,null,[42.103004291845494,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,57.896995708154506]]

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=[null,null,[42.103004291845494,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,57.896995708154506]]

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?
FIGUEROA, DAVID ERMENEGILDOMayor2015FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDOunknown
VELEZ, HUGO NORBERTOMayor2015MOVIMIENTO INTEGRACION LATINOAMERICANA DE EXPRESION SOCIAL (M.I.L.E.S.)unknown
ABILES, MARIA SILVINAMayor2015PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIAunknown
ESCALERA, DANIEL ALEJANDROMayor2015PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
MAMANI, MARIANA RAQUELMayor2015UNION VICTORIA POPULARunknown
MAURIN, "LILI"Mayor2019SAENZ GOBERNADORunknown
MOLINA, ROSSANA EVANGELINAMayor2019FRENTE DE TODOSunknown
GUITIAN, LEONARDO RAFAELMayor2019OLMEDO GOBERNADORunknown
SUMBAY, DIEGO RAMIROMayor2019MOVIMIENTO COMUNITARIO PLURICULTURAL LA CALDERAunknown
SUMBAY, DIEGO RAMIROMayor2023FRENTE VAMOS SALTAunknown
CALABRO, MIGUELMayor2023PRIMERO SALTAunknown
AGUILAR, LEONARDO GASTONMayor2023JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIOunknown
QUIPILDOR, HORACIO "FOFORITO"Mayor2023SI - SALTA INDEPENDIENTEunknown
DR. SOSA, FERNANDO DAVIDMayor2023FRENTE SALTA VA CON FELICIDADunknown

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. “La Caldera — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-M-03. Sources: argentina--url-eb7334206617afeb2425b66b, argentina--url-7e50201ce15b1dbc5d247fbd, argentina--url-1f2813d499a373fd56c6f1ce, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--Se5c6a60a6ebe, argentina--Sbbb4209d85da, argentina--S7ff5702b592e.