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VILLA CAÑAS — Municipal council / communal commission

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Argentina · VILLA CAÑAS / Santa Fe — GENERAL LOPEZ · municipal · Municipal council / communal commissionAR-SF-C-GENERALLOPEZ-VILLACANAS

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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. 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
VILLA CAÑAS / Santa Fe — GENERAL LOPEZ
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-cffe5b42d3104ba1f3e0f405
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 FE67.5%
  • MÁS PARA SANTA FE32.5%
Results for event-85786c0f864943153eb8b00a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE78argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/20251,82867.5%2Recorded
MÁS PARA SANTA FE8argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/202587932.5%1Recorded

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE74.1%
  • JUNTOS AVANCEMOS13.5%
  • ACUERDO CIUDADANO12.4%
Results for event-f5a76115efb7287bb8c334dd
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE102argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20233,54574.1%3Recorded
JUNTOS AVANCEMOS83argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202364413.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ACUERDO CIUDADANO68argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202359412.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-11-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO41.9%
  • FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIO23.5%
  • FRENTE DE TODOS20.3%
  • VILLA CAÑAS LIBRE14.3%
Results for event-1cbe9cf5963c0458837b8d62
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JUNTOS POR EL CAMBIO105argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20212,22741.9%2Recorded
FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIO104argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20211,25223.5%1Recorded
FRENTE DE TODOS31argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/20211,07920.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VILLA CAÑAS LIBRE90argentina/S39e1e83a3bd6/202176214.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

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

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=35.05725895825637, oldest_gap=18.32706766917293, previous_gap=60.652310265523724

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?
GALVAN JORGE HORACIOSource roster entry2015Unknownunknown
VERGE ROBERTOSource roster entry2015Unknownunknown
MONTANER DANIEL MATEOSource roster entry2015Unknownunknown
VACCARO LISANDRO FABIOSource roster entry2021Unknownunknown
SARBACH ANA ISABELSource roster entry2021Unknownunknown
SANCHEZ MARISA ALEJANDRASource roster entry2021Unknownunknown
VACCARO LISANDRO FABIOCONCEJAL2017CAMBIEMOSunknown
CRIADO AMERICA MARIACONCEJAL2017FRENTE JUSTICIALISTAunknown
RODRIGUEZ MARIA CAROLINACONCEJAL2017CAMBIEMOSunknown
ANDREANI TAMARA MAGALICONCEJAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
ELISEI VERONICA JESICACONCEJAL2019CAMBIEMOSunknown
RABASA CARLOS ROBERTOCONCEJAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
GALLO GUILLERMO NICOLASConcejal/a2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
MOLINA MARIANAConcejal/a2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
MORI SANDRA MELINAConcejal/a2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
COMPAÑS CLAUDIAConcejal/a2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
POLI GUILLERMO JAVIERConcejal/a2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
ROLANDO JOSE IGNACIOConcejal/a2025MÁS PARA 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. 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. “VILLA CAÑAS — Municipal council / communal commission.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-C-GENERALLOPEZ-VILLACANAS. 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--S5ddf099f9159, argentina--Sa3b7b35e32ee, argentina--S492e928e5e7e, argentina--S425b76ef9089, argentina--Sf3a1f8fa36ef.