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Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Office briefing

SAN CARLOS CENTRO — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Argentina · SAN CARLOS CENTRO / Santa Fe — LAS COLONIAS · municipal · MayorAR-SF-M-LASCOLONIAS-SANCARLOSCENTRO

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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
SAN CARLOS CENTRO / Santa Fe — LAS COLONIAS
Next election
2027; formal call pending
Linked upcoming event
next-bb8bc7e07802337d5c7dec9b
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?

2023-09-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS46.9%
  • SOMOS SAN CARLOS42.3%
  • ALTERNATIVA SANCARLINA10.9%
Results for event-d07bab0b5eda553d1268e0b2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS · PLACENZOTTI JUAN JOSE49argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20233,48346.9%1Recorded
SOMOS SAN CARLOS88argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/20233,13942.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ALTERNATIVA SANCARLINA20argentina/Sd5731ccd0603/202380610.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS54.1%
  • JUNTOS37.0%
  • CAMBIEMOS8.9%
Results for event-a0634fe11f589cfad611bcf4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS · PLACENZOTTI JUAN JOSE19argentina/Sf3a1f8fa36ef/20193,88954.1%1Recorded
JUNTOS40argentina/Sf3a1f8fa36ef/20192,66437%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CAMBIEMOS44argentina/Sf3a1f8fa36ef/20196408.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-06-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS53.5%
  • FRENTE JUSTICIALISTA PARA LA VICTORIA38.7%
  • FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIAL7.8%
Results for event-8492fd5826d2f10d1b250057
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOS68argentina/S1d81268d0ad9/20154,10553.5%1Recorded
FRENTE JUSTICIALISTA PARA LA VICTORIA4argentina/S1d81268d0ad9/20152,96438.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FRENTE PROGRESISTA CIVICO Y SOCIAL6argentina/S1d81268d0ad9/20155987.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

53.120–100 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=4.631125471190096, oldest_gap=14.881961653841138, previous_gap=17.030446267204226

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?
PLACENZOTTI JUAN JOSEINTENDENTE2019CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOSunknown
PLACENZOTTI JUAN JOSEIntendente/a2023CON LA FUERZA DE LOS HECHOSunknown

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. “SAN CARLOS CENTRO — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/AR-SF-M-LASCOLONIAS-SANCARLOSCENTRO. Sources: argentina--url-c59a56523176464d6aa95c66, argentina--url-5f87e101c11beb3c13ee782c, argentina--url-004f9429bd83adc5264c7867, argentina--url-d7161d241341725861e1307d, argentina--Sd5731ccd0603, argentina--S6c0f4226a3e8, argentina--Sf3a1f8fa36ef, argentina--S492e928e5e7e, argentina--S1d81268d0ad9.