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Office briefing

BELIZE CITY — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Belize · BELIZE CITY · municipal · MayorBZ-BELIZECITY-M

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Council marks cannot be used as ordinary vote shares. Mayor and council have separate histories.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
BELIZE CITY
Next election
2027-03
Linked upcoming event
next-202cbd5c65ea0da173a2665b
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-03 is expected (not formally called). Month precision — no calendar day supplied. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-03-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP66.2%
  • UDP31.6%
  • PDM2.1%
Results for event-4422532ff27239b0879b36d4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/S031aae71b6/202412,15366.2%1Recorded
UDPbelize/S031aae71b6/20245,80631.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PDMbelize/S031aae71b6/20243912.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-03-03

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP62.4%
  • UDP36.3%
  • Affiliation unresolved — MC CAULAY Richard "Lizaad"1.3%
Results for event-703514bda55df52f2e4c6d36
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/202110,06762.4%1Recorded
UDPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20215,84936.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Affiliation unresolved — MC CAULAY Richard "Lizaad"belize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20212121.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2018-03-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP50.5%
  • UDP45.8%
  • Affiliation unresolved — SMITH Paco2.6%
  • Affiliation unresolved — TORRES Eustaquio "Ernesto"1.1%
Results for event-237af1f3fc4952a68d2b69c9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/Sf032fe12f8/201810,57850.5%1Recorded
UDPbelize/Sf032fe12f8/20189,59745.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Affiliation unresolved — SMITH Pacobelize/Sf032fe12f8/20185392.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Affiliation unresolved — TORRES Eustaquio "Ernesto"belize/Sf032fe12f8/20182401.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

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=34.58855585831063, oldest_gap=4.68168368807865, previous_gap=26.15327380952381

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

4.63percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PUP, UDP and Other (minor parties and unresolved/independent affiliations). 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

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PUP","UDP","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[66.22888283378747,31.64032697547684,2.130790190735695],[62.41939484126984,36.26612103174603,1.314484126984127],[50.48200820845662,45.80032452037797,3.7176672711654097]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

11.94percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PUP, UDP and Other (minor parties and unresolved/independent affiliations). 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

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PUP","UDP","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[66.22888283378747,31.64032697547684,2.130790190735695],[62.41939484126984,36.26612103174603,1.314484126984127],[50.48200820845662,45.80032452037797,3.7176672711654097]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

8.28percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PUP, UDP and Other (minor parties and unresolved/independent affiliations). 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

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PUP","UDP","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[66.22888283378747,31.64032697547684,2.130790190735695],[62.41939484126984,36.26612103174603,1.314484126984127],[50.48200820845662,45.80032452037797,3.7176672711654097]]

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.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

No open research issues attached to this office.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “BELIZE CITY — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/BZ-BELIZECITY-M. Sources: belize--url-70485283b0d710747a7e941d, belize--url-84c7a4ac059a32c81fb0d365, belize--url-623e3a9bbcb86f864846f8e6, belize--S031aae71b6, belize--Sfd5f2a8f1e, belize--Sf032fe12f8.