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

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Argentina · HUGHES / Santa Fe — GENERAL LOPEZ · municipal · Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition)AR-SF-C-GENERALLOPEZ-HUGHES

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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
HUGHES / Santa Fe — GENERAL LOPEZ
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-8f9da07ab428fccf07b920d9
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-bf8e35dbd19ad9798a525b43
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE78argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/20251,924100%5Recorded

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNION VECINAL HUGHENSE58.9%
  • JUNTOS AVANCEMOS41.1%
Results for event-f58beee7471e68d072e55ff4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNION VECINAL HUGHENSE70argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20231,67858.9%4Recorded
JUNTOS AVANCEMOS83argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20231,17041.1%1Recorded

2021-11-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • FRENTE DE TODOS53.5%
  • FRENTE PROGRESISTA CÍVICO Y SOCIAL35.6%
  • FRENTE FEDERAL VIDA Y FAMILIA10.9%
Results for event-434910d16beaad8315a3f88e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
FRENTE DE TODOS31argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20211,60253.5%UnknownRecorded
FRENTE PROGRESISTA CÍVICO Y SOCIAL18argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20211,06535.6%UnknownRecorded
FRENTE FEDERAL VIDA Y FAMILIA25argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/202132610.9%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?
LEGUINA POGGIO JOSE LUISMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017PARTIDO FEunknown
BRANDI MARTIN OSVALDOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017PARTIDO FEunknown
RAMOS MARIA DEL CARMENMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017PARTIDO FEunknown
BOGARIN SILVIA HAYDEEMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017PARTIDO FEunknown
VIOLA MARIO ANTONIOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
PARNASSO NESTOR HORACIOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019JUNTOSunknown
OCTAVIANI VANESA ALEJANDRAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019JUNTOSunknown
MARTINEZ OMAR ANTONIOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019JUNTOSunknown
MORALES ELISABET NOEMIMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019JUNTOSunknown
LEGUINA POGGIO JOSE LUISMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019CAMBIEMOSunknown
DONATI MAURICIO RICARDOM. Comunal2023UNION VECINAL HUGHENSEunknown
DANLOY MARIA LUISAM. Comunal2023UNION VECINAL HUGHENSEunknown
GASPARI RODOLFO EUGENIOM. Comunal2023UNION VECINAL HUGHENSEunknown
GODOY LUISINAM. Comunal2023UNION VECINAL HUGHENSEunknown
PARNASSO NESTOR HORACIOM. Comunal2023JUNTOS AVANCEMOSunknown
DONATI MAURICIO RICARDOM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
DANLOY MARIA LUISAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GASPARI RODOLFO EUGENIOM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GODOY LUISINAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
SAIBENE HERNAN CESARM. 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. “HUGHES — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition).” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-C-GENERALLOPEZ-HUGHES. Sources: argentina--url-37c2f32beac05e8dc61453fe, argentina--url-c59a56523176464d6aa95c66, argentina--url-672e932493801d52ca9d33cb, argentina--url-5f87e101c11beb3c13ee782c, argentina--url-5a55b3b32d7b3d501f49fde7, argentina--url-c525ce3c9587a50239c25014, argentina--url-d7161d241341725861e1307d, argentina--Sa9a75bad2b02, argentina--S6cbb0ff8bc14, argentina--Sd5731ccd0603, argentina--S6c0f4226a3e8, argentina--S39e1e83a3bd6, argentina--Sa3b7b35e32ee, argentina--S492e928e5e7e, argentina--S425b76ef9089, argentina--Sf3a1f8fa36ef, argentina--S5ddf099f9159.