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CAYASTÁ — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition)

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Argentina · CAYASTÁ / Santa Fe — GARAY · municipal · Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition)AR-SF-C-GARAY-CAYASTA

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Formal 2027 polling date is pending. Law 14,436 governs the 2027 transition. Local choices about council structure can remain open until 30 November 2026. Earlier communal commission returns are predecessor-institution comparisons; the new mayor/commission joint ballot is not an identical office. Official votes and elected rosters are retained. Council counts describe elected cohorts. Current governing membership and later replacements require verification.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
CAYASTÁ / Santa Fe — GARAY
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-e8a093178d9bf7b2cf42efe9
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?

2025-06-29

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE100.0%
Results for event-6eccbd348d465dfc8a5a4335
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE78argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/20251,319100%5Recorded

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE71.8%
  • JUNTOS AVANCEMOS25.4%
  • VIVA LA LIBERTAD2.8%
Results for event-e3671912f33c1d7cca985f3c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE102argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20231,77771.8%4Recorded
JUNTOS AVANCEMOS83argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202363025.4%1Recorded
VIVA LA LIBERTAD38argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/2023692.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-11-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • FRENTE PROGRESISTA CÍVICO Y SOCIAL58.1%
  • SANTA FE PARA TODOS41.9%
Results for event-143e9fc38eba935d33114f4d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
FRENTE PROGRESISTA CÍVICO Y SOCIAL18argentina/Sa535768b5ba8/20211,49058.1%UnknownRecorded
SANTA FE PARA TODOS144argentina/Sa535768b5ba8/20211,07641.9%UnknownRecorded

Other events (not selected cycles)

  • 2017-10-22 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 2019-06-16 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 2015-06-14 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Withheld

Unknown0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Comparison unavailable · Formal 2027 polling date is pending. Law 14,436 governs the 2027 transition. Local choices about council structure can remain open until 30 November 2026. Earlier communal commission returns are predecessor-institution comparisons; the new mayor/commission joint ballot is not an identical office. Official votes and elected rosters are retained. Council counts describe elected cohorts. Current governing membership and later replacements require verification.

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=null, oldest_gap=null, previous_gap=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: 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,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=[null,null,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=[null,null,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?
DEVIA MARIA VERONICAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
BERLI EDGARDO MIGUELMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
PADRO NELDA ESTERMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
HERNANDEZ CARLOS ALBERTOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
DUPRAZ MARCELO ANTONIOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017UNIDOSunknown
DEVIA MARIA VERONICAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
BERLI EDGARDO MIGUELMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
PADRO NELDA ESTERMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
HERNANDEZ CARLOS ALBERTOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
DUPRAZ MARCELO ANTONIOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019UNIDOSunknown
BERLI EDGARDO MIGUELM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
ZORATTI ROCIO GISELAM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
HERNANDEZ CARLOS ALBERTOM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
PADRO NELDA ESTERM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
PADRO NICOLAS EZEQUIELM. Comunal2023JUNTOS AVANCEMOSunknown
BERLI EDGARDO MIGUELM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
ZORATTI ROCIO GISELAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
HERNANDEZ CARLOS ALBERTOM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
BOLGIANI ANDREA FABIANAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GUIPPONI ALFREDO NICOLASM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown

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

Formal 2027 polling date is pending. Law 14,436 governs the 2027 transition. Local choices about council structure can remain open until 30 November 2026. Earlier communal commission returns are predecessor-institution comparisons; the new mayor/commission joint ballot is not an identical office. Official votes and elected rosters are retained. Council counts describe elected cohorts. Current governing membership and later replacements require verification. 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. “CAYASTÁ — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition).” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-C-GARAY-CAYASTA. Sources: argentina--url-37c2f32beac05e8dc61453fe, argentina--url-c59a56523176464d6aa95c66, argentina--url-8b03c523605ea84ff08fac33, argentina--url-5f87e101c11beb3c13ee782c, argentina--url-5a55b3b32d7b3d501f49fde7, argentina--url-75752ce79d5bc8e425bbfe12, argentina--url-d7161d241341725861e1307d, argentina--Sa9a75bad2b02, argentina--S6cbb0ff8bc14, argentina--Sd5731ccd0603, argentina--S6c0f4226a3e8, argentina--Sa535768b5ba8, argentina--Sa3b7b35e32ee, argentina--S492e928e5e7e, argentina--S425b76ef9089, argentina--Sf3a1f8fa36ef, argentina--S8548b1f2b2b4.