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

Office briefing

SAN PEDRO — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Belize · SAN PEDRO · municipal · MayorBZ-SANPEDRO-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
SAN PEDRO
Next election
2027-03
Linked upcoming event
next-6d7f695afb2de01f6a48b357
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

  • PUP72.5%
  • UDP26.2%
  • Independent — BACAB Abner "Chamber"1.3%
Results for event-5dbcd1f4295a0b0354e4cb67
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/S62069de7d7/20243,65172.5%1Recorded
UDPbelize/S62069de7d7/20241,31926.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — BACAB Abner "Chamber"belize/S62069de7d7/2024631.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2021-03-03

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PUP67.1%
  • UDP32.9%
Results for event-4ad462db2429936665bbc585
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PUPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20213,46267.1%1Recorded
UDPbelize/Sfd5f2a8f1e/20211,70132.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2018-03-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • UDP50.4%
  • PUP49.6%
Results for event-4f11e5d2f23de3af2e12bb16
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UDPbelize/Sa420c2e76a/20182,66750.4%1Recorded
PUPbelize/Sa420c2e76a/20182,62949.6%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=46.33419431750447, oldest_gap=0.7175226586102781, previous_gap=34.108076699593255

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

6.74percentage 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=[[72.54122789588715,26.207033578382674,1.2517385257301807],[67.05403834979663,32.94596165020337,0],[49.64123867069486,50.35876132930514,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

17.41percentage 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=[[72.54122789588715,26.207033578382674,1.2517385257301807],[67.05403834979663,32.94596165020337,0],[49.64123867069486,50.35876132930514,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

12.08percentage 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=[[72.54122789588715,26.207033578382674,1.2517385257301807],[67.05403834979663,32.94596165020337,0],[49.64123867069486,50.35876132930514,0]]

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. “SAN PEDRO — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/BZ-SANPEDRO-M. Sources: belize--url-a505e7b153e5debc8ed4d60b, belize--url-84c7a4ac059a32c81fb0d365, belize--url-97139216c1a80aa442f50a04, belize--S62069de7d7, belize--Sfd5f2a8f1e, belize--Sa420c2e76a.