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ORANGE WALK — Mayor

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ORANGE WALK — Mayor

Three city/town cycles include mayoral votes, councillor marks and elected flags. San Lazaro has a confirmed single-member village vacancy poll on 4 October 2026, with 2019/2022/2025 member-cohort context retained separately from a comparable single-seat series. The 2022 cohort was uncontested. Council marks are not voter shares. Minor affiliations, other intervening events, current control and the 2027 municipal call remain to be verified. The ordinary village cycle is expected in May–July 2028, outside the window, from the statutory three-year term; this is not a formal call.

Election expectation2027-03
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles3 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 0.0/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 5.2 points; earlier interval 12.7 points; two-interval mean 9.0 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

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

Polling: no vetted current evidence included for this office.

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

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2024-03-06 · ordinary

Coverage: Official candidate votes and elected flags; minor-party affiliation reconciliation pending where noted

Basis: One mayoral candidate mark per voter

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PUPSHEPPARD Ladrick "Mad Bull"4,75274.46%1
UDPCARBALLO Enrique "Wico"1,63025.54%0

Result source

2021-03-03 · ordinary

Coverage: Official candidate votes and elected flags; minor-party affiliation reconciliation pending where noted

Basis: One mayoral candidate mark per voter

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PUPSHEPPARD Ladrick "Mad Bull"4,52178.76%1
UDPCASTILLO Orlando "Chicle"1,16620.31%0
Affiliation unresolved — SANCHEZ AntoniaSANCHEZ Antonia530.92%0

Result source

2018-03-07 · ordinary

Coverage: Official candidate votes and elected flags; minor-party affiliation reconciliation pending where noted

Basis: One mayoral candidate mark per voter

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
PUPBERNARD Kevin5,26066.98%1
UDPDE LA FUENTE Phillip2,59333.02%0

Result source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record BZ-ORANGEWALK-M.