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

Office briefing

ORANGE WALK — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Belize · ORANGE WALK · municipal · MayorBZ-ORANGEWALK-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
ORANGE WALK
Next election
2027-03
Linked upcoming event
next-ac952e559015d26b7b67d81b
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

  • PUP74.5%
  • UDP25.5%
Results for event-4f3e9182b48f6c13169bc473
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/Sec79bde235/20244,75274.5%1Recorded
UDPbelize/Sec79bde235/20241,63025.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-03-03

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP78.8%
  • UDP20.3%
  • Affiliation unresolved — SANCHEZ Antonia0.9%
Results for event-d71c895f3862ec1ae8fedfd7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20214,52178.8%1Recorded
UDPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20211,16620.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Affiliation unresolved — SANCHEZ Antoniabelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/2021530.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2018-03-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP67.0%
  • UDP33.0%
Results for event-81e7227f68c3f91eaa81a45e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/S265de45982/20185,26067%1Recorded
UDPbelize/S265de45982/20182,59333%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=48.918834221247266, oldest_gap=33.96154335922577, previous_gap=58.449477351916386

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

5.23percentage 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=[[74.45941711062363,25.54058288937637,0],[78.7630662020906,20.313588850174217,0.9233449477351916],[66.98077167961289,33.019228320387114,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

12.71percentage 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=[[74.45941711062363,25.54058288937637,0],[78.7630662020906,20.313588850174217,0.9233449477351916],[66.98077167961289,33.019228320387114,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

8.97percentage 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=[[74.45941711062363,25.54058288937637,0],[78.7630662020906,20.313588850174217,0.9233449477351916],[66.98077167961289,33.019228320387114,0]]

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. “ORANGE WALK — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/BZ-ORANGEWALK-M. Sources: belize--url-cc5bb1bb0b00a06c5e2e3503, belize--url-84c7a4ac059a32c81fb0d365, belize--url-50e7edc130e1f29ff82952be, belize--Sec79bde235, belize--Sfd5f2a8f1e, belize--S265de45982.