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Office briefing

La Candelaria — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Argentina · La Candelaria / Salta / LA CANDELARIA · municipal · MayorAR-SA-M-44

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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 Candelaria / Salta / LA CANDELARIA
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
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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 JUSTICIALISTA50.9%
  • FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA48.4%
  • PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTA0.7%
Results for event-512c7e73267ba4eb066bf821
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · DIAZ, CEFERINO "CHEPI"4argentina/S9b452c1a0ac3/202356450.9%1Recorded
FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA · ROMANO, "JULIN"3744argentina/S9b452c1a0ac3/202353648.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTA · VAZQUEZ, MIRTA LEONOR15argentina/S9b452c1a0ac3/202380.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-11-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SUR81.7%
  • PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA15.6%
  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA1.4%
  • KOLINA1.2%
Results for event-6a9c9c5dbc45e769cdbd3b2a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SUR · ROMANO, JULIO MARCELO32argentina/Sff6868216ed2/201980181.7%1Recorded
PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑA · ROLDAN, PABLO MARCELO1053argentina/Sff6868216ed2/201915315.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · APAZA, DIEGO ARMANDO4argentina/Sff6868216ed2/2019141.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
KOLINA · VOGEL, MARIA SOLEDAD459argentina/Sff6868216ed2/2019121.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-05-17

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • CANDELARIA PRIMERO84.8%
  • FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO15.2%
Results for event-c02be7d7d8605d6172acc0ae
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CANDELARIA PRIMERO · ROMANO, "JULIN" JULIO MARCELO1022argentina/Sae7bc928d9cd/201579484.8%1Recorded
FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO · YACANTE, MIGUEL ANGEL1688argentina/Sae7bc928d9cd/201514215.2%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=2.5270758122743686, oldest_gap=69.65811965811966, previous_gap=66.12244897959184

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.47percentage 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=[[50.90252707581227,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.09747292418773],[1.4285714285714286,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,98.57142857142858],null]

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=[[50.90252707581227,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.09747292418773],[1.4285714285714286,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,98.57142857142858],null]

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=[[50.90252707581227,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.09747292418773],[1.4285714285714286,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,98.57142857142858],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.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
YACANTE, MIGUEL ANGELMayor2015FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDOunknown
ROMANO, "JULIN" JULIO MARCELOMayor2015CANDELARIA PRIMEROunknown
ROMANO, JULIO MARCELOMayor2019MOVIMIENTO LIBRES DEL SURunknown
APAZA, DIEGO ARMANDOMayor2019PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
VOGEL, MARIA SOLEDADMayor2019KOLINAunknown
ROLDAN, PABLO MARCELOMayor2019PARTIDO IDENTIDAD SALTEÑAunknown
DIAZ, CEFERINO "CHEPI"Mayor2023PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
VAZQUEZ, MIRTA LEONORMayor2023PARTIDO RENOVADOR DE SALTAunknown
ROMANO, "JULIN"Mayor2023FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown

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 Candelaria — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-M-44. Sources: argentina--url-9c6c68bb56b44e8ee2c467ac, argentina--url-67514468a123327dfdc43dd8, argentina--url-0a58dbe72ade9079747badc5, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--S9b452c1a0ac3, argentina--Sff6868216ed2, argentina--Sae7bc928d9cd.