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

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

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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
MELINCUÉ / Santa Fe — GENERAL LOPEZ
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-b6f4f653fc100a88901ab829
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

  • LA LIBERTAD AVANZA50.5%
  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE49.5%
Results for event-be2e46a1467e5862bb1364c2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
LA LIBERTAD AVANZA69argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/202569850.5%4Recorded
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE78argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/202568349.5%1Recorded

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE75.1%
  • INSTRUMENTO ELECTORAL POR LA UNIDAD POPU24.9%
Results for event-c9613400d9ce7ea60de48462
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE102argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20231,05475.1%4Recorded
INSTRUMENTO ELECTORAL POR LA UNIDAD POPU37argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202334924.9%1Recorded

2021-11-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • JUNTOS POR MELINCUE71.4%
  • FRENTE DE TODOS28.6%
Results for event-e533185562b8e30b02e1ba64
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JUNTOS POR MELINCUE108argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20211,01171.4%UnknownRecorded
FRENTE DE TODOS31argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/202140528.6%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?
SACCHETTO HORACIO ANDRESMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
GUIDA ADRIAN VICTOR LUJANMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
GALLISSO YAMILA NOELIAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
VITTA ERICA VALERIAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
REBORA GABRIEL ALEJANDROMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE JUSTICIALISTAunknown
GARBOLINO SILVIO ADRIANMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
GALLISSO YAMILA NOELIAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
GUIDA ADRIAN VICTOR LUJANMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
CAAMAÑO SABRINA VICTORIAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIOunknown
REBORA GABRIEL ALEJANDROMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019ALTERNATIVA FEDERALunknown
GARBOLINO SILVIO ADRIANM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GALLISSO YAMILA NOELIAM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
DALMASSO GIANFRANCOM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
BRUNO SUSANA NOEMIM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GUIDA ADRIAN VICTOR LUJANM. Comunal2023INSTRUMENTO ELECTORAL POR LA UNIDAD POPUunknown
GARBOLINO SILVIO ADRIANM. Comunal2025LA LIBERTAD AVANZAunknown
AGOSTINIS GARZIERA SILVINA VERONICAM. Comunal2025LA LIBERTAD AVANZAunknown
LEAL LUCAS ALBERTOM. Comunal2025LA LIBERTAD AVANZAunknown
GOMEZ CORINA SUSANAM. Comunal2025LA LIBERTAD AVANZAunknown
GALLISSO YAMILA NOELIAM. 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. “MELINCUÉ — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition).” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-C-GENERALLOPEZ-MELINCUE. 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.