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Office briefing

Seclantas — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Argentina · Seclantas / Salta / MOLINOS · municipal · MayorAR-SA-M-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-87469207f2f333f4686f3566
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 JUSTICIALISTA68.7%
  • FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA24.7%
  • JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO3.9%
  • FRENTE AVANCEMOS2.8%
Results for event-5084098e5608b875f389d939
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · ABAN, MAURICIO "MAURI"4argentina/Se57db3651122/20231,43268.7%1Recorded
FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTA · CASIMIRO, JORGE IVAN3744argentina/Se57db3651122/202351424.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO · LEMOS, FLAVIO3746argentina/Se57db3651122/2023813.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE AVANCEMOS · HUMANO, RICARDO3739argentina/Se57db3651122/2023582.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-11-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA83.1%
  • SAENZ GOBERNADOR9.0%
  • PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA4.4%
  • PARTIDO AUTONOMISTA3.5%
Results for event-e869e136c3968f038331ee48
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · ABAN, MAURICIO GERARDO4argentina/S5965ad1fefa4/20191,58483.1%1Recorded
SAENZ GOBERNADOR · VILLANUEVA, ROMINA PAOLA3432argentina/S5965ad1fefa4/20191729%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIA · VAZQUEZ, JAVIER "BETO"13argentina/S5965ad1fefa4/2019844.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO AUTONOMISTA · RODRIGUEZ, DIONISIO PEDRO2625argentina/S5965ad1fefa4/2019673.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-05-17

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA54.0%
  • FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO39.2%
  • FRENTE SALTEÑO4.9%
  • FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PS1.9%
Results for event-60fadb25ac0c5012236c95f9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA · ABAN, WALTER JOAQUIN4argentina/Sbecb8f1436b2/201598554%1Recorded
FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDO · ACUÑA, MARIA ROSA1688argentina/Sbecb8f1436b2/201571539.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE SALTEÑO · MAITA, JUAN FRANCISCO460argentina/Sbecb8f1436b2/2015894.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PS · LERA, CELIA1278argentina/Sbecb8f1436b2/2015341.9%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=44.02877697841727, oldest_gap=14.81075150850247, previous_gap=74.04299947561616

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

14.38percentage 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=[[68.6810551558753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.3189448441247],[83.06240167802832,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.937598321971684],[54.031815688425674,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.968184311574326]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

29.03percentage 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

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=[[68.6810551558753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.3189448441247],[83.06240167802832,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.937598321971684],[54.031815688425674,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.968184311574326]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

21.71percentage 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

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=[[68.6810551558753,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,31.3189448441247],[83.06240167802832,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16.937598321971684],[54.031815688425674,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,45.968184311574326]]

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?
ACUÑA, MARIA ROSAMayor2015FRENTE ROMERO + OLMEDOunknown
LERA, CELIAMayor2015FRENTE UCR - UNEN - PSunknown
MAITA, JUAN FRANCISCOMayor2015FRENTE SALTEÑOunknown
ABAN, WALTER JOAQUINMayor2015PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
ABAN, MAURICIO GERARDOMayor2019PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
VAZQUEZ, JAVIER "BETO"Mayor2019PARTIDO DE LA VICTORIAunknown
VILLANUEVA, ROMINA PAOLAMayor2019SAENZ GOBERNADORunknown
RODRIGUEZ, DIONISIO PEDROMayor2019PARTIDO AUTONOMISTAunknown
ABAN, MAURICIO "MAURI"Mayor2023PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTAunknown
CASIMIRO, JORGE IVANMayor2023FRENTE UNIDOS POR SALTAunknown
LEMOS, FLAVIOMayor2023JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIOunknown
HUMANO, RICARDOMayor2023FRENTE 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 — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SA-M-52. Sources: argentina--url-249c78c1527f5875ae0f4ff1, argentina--url-8be9619ad87d08c04c466d70, argentina--url-843c58c09018271943b4aa42, argentina--url-d7f8790fc5c1bdb4230d10b7, argentina--Se57db3651122, argentina--S5965ad1fefa4, argentina--Sbecb8f1436b2.