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Apolinario Saravia — Mayor
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Argentina · Apolinario Saravia / Salta / ANTA · municipal · MayorAR-SA-M-12
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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
- Apolinario Saravia / Salta / ANTA
- Next election
- 2027; formal call pending
- Linked upcoming event
- next-2a81bb9a376843f5a87077fa
- 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 JUSTICIALISTA68.9%
- FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA23.3%
- FRENTE AVANCEMOS5.2%
- SALTA PARA TODOS - CALIVA GOBERNADORA2.5%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | 4argentina/S9aaf47cbc505/2023 | 3,240 | 68.9% | 1 | Recorded |
| FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA · PEDRAZA LOPEZ, EMILIA ANDREA | 3744argentina/S9aaf47cbc505/2023 | 1,096 | 23.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| FRENTE AVANCEMOS · GOMEZ, SANDRA | 3739argentina/S9aaf47cbc505/2023 | 245 | 5.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| SALTA PARA TODOS - CALIVA GOBERNADORA · SALAZAR, HECTOR EDUARDO | 3747argentina/S9aaf47cbc505/2023 | 119 | 2.5% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2019-11-10
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA62.1%
- P. DE LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACION Y EL TRABAJO10.0%
- UNION CIVICA RADICAL8.0%
- SAENZ GOBERNADOR5.6%
- MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SUR4.9%
- IZQUIERDA POPULAR (IP)4.3%
- PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA3.3%
- AGRUPACION VECINAL AUTONOMA1.9%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | 4argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 2,849 | 62.1% | 1 | Recorded |
| P. DE LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACION Y EL TRABAJO · FERNANDEZ, FERNANDO DAVID | 1052argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 457 | 10% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| UNION CIVICA RADICAL · LUNA ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER | 5argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 366 | 8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| SAENZ GOBERNADOR · BRITOS, JUAN CRISTOBAL | 3432argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 257 | 5.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SUR · MOLINA, CRISTIAN DANIEL RAMON | 32argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 224 | 4.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| IZQUIERDA POPULAR (IP) · YULAN, YESSICA YUDITH | 1796argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 199 | 4.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · VERA, LUIS ALBERTO | 13argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 151 | 3.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| AGRUPACION VECINAL AUTONOMA · CORTEZ, RICARDO MARCELO | 20argentina/Sf7f14bad50ad/2019 | 88 | 1.9% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2015-05-17
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- KOLINA68.0%
- PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA15.2%
- FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO8.4%
- PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTA5.7%
- FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PS2.7%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOLINA · MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | 459argentina/Sfd8b8499857a/2015 | 3,401 | 68% | 1 | Recorded |
| PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · MEDINA, JORGE EDUARDO | 13argentina/Sfd8b8499857a/2015 | 762 | 15.2% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO · VERA, LUIS ALBERTO | 1688argentina/Sfd8b8499857a/2015 | 420 | 8.4% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTA · ALTAMIRANDA, JORGE DANIEL | 15argentina/Sfd8b8499857a/2015 | 287 | 5.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PS · BETANCOURT, YOLANDA | 1278argentina/Sfd8b8499857a/2015 | 135 | 2.7% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI0 (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=45.61702127659575, oldest_gap=52.72727272727272, previous_gap=52.10193857547375
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility7.97percentage 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
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=[[68.93617021276596,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.06382978723404],[62.05619690699194,7.972119363972991,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.97168372903507],null]
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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=[[68.93617021276596,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.06382978723404],[62.05619690699194,7.972119363972991,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.97168372903507],null]
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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=[[68.93617021276596,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.06382978723404],[62.05619690699194,7.972119363972991,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,29.97168372903507],null]
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.
| Person | Role | As of | Affiliation | Principal? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VERA, LUIS ALBERTO | Mayor | 2015 | FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO | unknown |
| BETANCOURT, YOLANDA | Mayor | 2015 | FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PS | unknown |
| MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | Mayor | 2015 | KOLINA | unknown |
| MEDINA, JORGE EDUARDO | Mayor | 2015 | PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA | unknown |
| ALTAMIRANDA, JORGE DANIEL | Mayor | 2015 | PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTA | unknown |
| MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | Mayor | 2019 | PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA | unknown |
| FERNANDEZ, FERNANDO DAVID | Mayor | 2019 | P. DE LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACION Y EL TRABAJO | unknown |
| MOLINA, CRISTIAN DANIEL RAMON | Mayor | 2019 | MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SUR | unknown |
| YULAN, YESSICA YUDITH | Mayor | 2019 | IZQUIERDA POPULAR (IP) | unknown |
| VERA, LUIS ALBERTO | Mayor | 2019 | PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA | unknown |
| LUNA ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER | Mayor | 2019 | UNION CIVICA RADICAL | unknown |
| BRITOS, JUAN CRISTOBAL | Mayor | 2019 | SAENZ GOBERNADOR | unknown |
| CORTEZ, RICARDO MARCELO | Mayor | 2019 | AGRUPACION VECINAL AUTONOMA | unknown |
| MOISES, MARCELO DANIEL | Mayor | 2023 | PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA | unknown |
| PEDRAZA LOPEZ, EMILIA ANDREA | Mayor | 2023 | FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA | unknown |
| GOMEZ, SANDRA | Mayor | 2023 | FRENTE AVANCEMOS | unknown |
| SALAZAR, HECTOR EDUARDO | Mayor | 2023 | SALTA PARA TODOS - CALIVA GOBERNADORA | unknown |
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
- Argentina: https://www.electoralsalta.gob.ar/JSON/Escrutinio/2023G/6/5.12.json · rights unknown
- Argentina: https://www.electoralsalta.gob.ar/JSON/Escrutinio/2019G/6/5.12.json · rights unknown
- Argentina: https://www.electoralsalta.gob.ar/JSON/Escrutinio/2015G/6/5.12.json · rights unknown
- Argentina: https://www.electoralsalta.gob.ar/elecciones/definitivo-anteriores · rights unknown
- Argentina: Salta Tribunal Electoral definitive return: ar_salta_2023_C6_5.12.json · rights unknown
- Argentina: Salta Tribunal Electoral definitive return: ar_salta_2019_C6_5.12.json · rights unknown
- Argentina: Salta Tribunal Electoral definitive return: ar_salta_2015_C6_5.12.json · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “Apolinario Saravia — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-M-12. Sources: argentina--url-d06d406e68c6d99ff1d8c574, argentina--url-41101b55af698ff3e45c66a8, argentina--url-a5de39362d14129913911450, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--S9aaf47cbc505, argentina--Sf7f14bad50ad, argentina--Sfd8b8499857a.