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SANTO DOMINGO — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition)

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Argentina · SANTO DOMINGO / Santa Fe — LAS COLONIAS · municipal · Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition)AR-SF-C-LASCOLONIAS-SANTODOMINGO

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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
SANTO DOMINGO / Santa Fe — LAS COLONIAS
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-a39b3f6698df85c271356623
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-41e5ff36a42c9213b8381c87
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE78argentina/Sa9a75bad2b02/2025539100%5Recorded

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • SANTA FE PARA TODOS63.4%
  • UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE36.6%
Results for event-cc8ef15aa06b9ada98ea38d2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SANTA FE PARA TODOS69argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202374163.4%4Recorded
UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FE102argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202342836.6%1Recorded

2021-11-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • SANTA FE PARA TODOS64.8%
  • FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIO35.2%
Results for event-fa7b7ee965f71894c5a52b68
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SANTA FE PARA TODOS144argentina/Sb8d17cc3e2b2/202170864.8%UnknownRecorded
FRENTE PARA EL CAMBIO104argentina/Sb8d17cc3e2b2/202138535.2%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?
ARBER PATRICIA MONICAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
MAITRE MARCOS MANUELMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
DUNKY ROSANA NIDIAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
SCHREIER MIGUEL ANGELMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
AUCE GABRIEL ANDRESMIEMBRO COMUNAL2017FRENTE JUSTICIALISTAunknown
ARBER PATRICIA MONICAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
VEGETTI JUAN PABLOMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
SCHREIER ANIBAL RAULMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
SPIES ROMINA MARCELAMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIALunknown
MARINONI NATALIA SOLEDADMIEMBRO COMUNAL2019JUNTOSunknown
ARBER PATRICIA MONICAM. Comunal2023SANTA FE PARA TODOSunknown
VEGETTI JUAN PABLOM. Comunal2023SANTA FE PARA TODOSunknown
GUT ROSANA MARIAM. Comunal2023SANTA FE PARA TODOSunknown
SCHREIER ANIBAL RAULM. Comunal2023SANTA FE PARA TODOSunknown
RIVA DARIO JOSEM. Comunal2023UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
ARBER PATRICIA MONICAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GOROSITO AUGUSTO JAVIERM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
GUT ROSANA MARIAM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
CORIA JUAN MANUELM. Comunal2025UNIDOS PARA CAMBIAR SANTA FEunknown
SCHREIER ANIBAL RAULM. 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. “SANTO DOMINGO — Municipal mayor/commission joint ballot (2027 transition).” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-C-LASCOLONIAS-SANTODOMINGO. Sources: argentina--url-37c2f32beac05e8dc61453fe, argentina--url-c59a56523176464d6aa95c66, argentina--url-ae1cc55bbf8032bb243fb0b6, argentina--url-5f87e101c11beb3c13ee782c, argentina--url-5a55b3b32d7b3d501f49fde7, argentina--url-d60871030d2ff4df260c60a5, argentina--url-d7161d241341725861e1307d, argentina--Sa9a75bad2b02, argentina--S6cbb0ff8bc14, argentina--Sd5731ccd0603, argentina--S6c0f4226a3e8, argentina--Sb8d17cc3e2b2, argentina--Sa3b7b35e32ee, argentina--S492e928e5e7e, argentina--S425b76ef9089, argentina--Sf3a1f8fa36ef, argentina--Sbdba16edeb96.