Government
| Population | Councillors |
|---|---|
| at most 5,000 | 6 |
| 5,000-10,000 | 10 |
| 10,000-20,000 | 12 |
| 20,000-30,000 | 14 |
| 30,000-40,000 | 16 |
| 40,000-80,000 | 18 |
| 80,000-200,000 | 20 |
| more than 200,000 | 24 |
Every partido is administrated by a municipality. It is divided in an executive and a legislative branch: the mayor or intendente and the city council or consejo deliberante, respectively. The municipality is a strong mayor-council form of government.
The mayor is elected to four-year terms and can be reelected indefinitely.
The City Council is a unicameral body consisting and one-half of the members are elected every two years to serve four-year term.
The mayor and councilors can be reelected indefinitely.
The number of councillors depends on the population of every partido. According to decret-law 6769/58 the number of councillors varies as follows:
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