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Office briefing

San Pedro Sacatepéquez — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · San Pedro Sacatepéquez / Guatemala · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-01-09

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Final TSE report returns for 2023, 2019 and 2015, where this municipality existed. Court-ordered repeated contests and later replacements require the dated event review. The 2027 office call is pending.

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

Geography
San Pedro Sacatepéquez / Guatemala
Next election
2027-06-27
Linked upcoming event
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Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-06-27 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2023-06-25

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • VIVA31.0%
  • VAMOS28.2%
  • VALOR15.6%
  • UNE13.8%
  • PPN3.2%
  • ELEFANTE3.0%
  • CAMBIO2.7%
  • MLP1.2%
  • CABAL1.1%
  • PODEMOS0.2%
Results for event-6befe3b86765b7f11fa8dfd0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VIVA · JUAN LEONEL CULAJAY PÉREZguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20236,50231%6Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20235,91028.2%2Recorded
VALORguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20233,27315.6%1Recorded
UNEguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232,90113.8%1Recorded
PPNguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20236623.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
ELEFANTEguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20236273%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CAMBIOguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20235572.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MLPguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232421.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CABALguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232251.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PODEMOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023480.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • CREO34.0%
  • VAMOS24.0%
  • VIVA20.5%
  • UNE17.9%
  • UNIONISTA3.7%
Results for event-e405873f831e57504582a226
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CREO · NOE LEOPOLDO BOROR HERNANDEZguatemala/S6d250220e847/20196,15434%5Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/20194,34524%1Recorded
VIVAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193,71420.5%1Recorded
UNEguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193,24417.9%1Recorded
UNIONISTAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20196663.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-09-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • PP58.3%
  • LIDER25.3%
  • FCN NACION10.7%
  • UNE5.6%
Results for event-782b60b933164f846a25ac39
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PP · Rodrigo Buch Granadosguatemala/S6241581360d0/201510,29758.3%7Recorded
LIDER · Joel Ajcip Cotucguatemala/S6241581360d0/20154,46525.3%1Recorded
FCN NACION · Leonel Chuquiej Granadosguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,89210.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNE · Gabino De León Xuyaguatemala/S6241581360d0/20159975.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

60.030–100 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=2.8261803599560764, oldest_gap=33.04062092799275, previous_gap=9.981791094189703

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.68percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Eleven exact standalone party labels in the certified tables. Coalition ballots, civic committees, unverified renamed parties and all others remain Other. Dissolved and newly entering parties can move to/from zero; this is not a voter-transfer estimate. 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=["UNE","VAMOS","TODOS","UCN","VIVA","LIDER","PP","CREO","FCN-NACION","UNIONISTA","SEMILLA","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[13.849238554446938,28.21406406645343,0,0,31.040244426409508,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.896452952690126],[17.899906196545825,23.97505931689014,0,0,20.493295811951665,0,0,33.95685041107984,0,3.6748882635325275,0,0],[5.648405189507677,0,0,0,0,25.296017222820236,58.33663815081299,0,0,0,0,10.7189394368591]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

94.35percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Eleven exact standalone party labels in the certified tables. Coalition ballots, civic committees, unverified renamed parties and all others remain Other. Dissolved and newly entering parties can move to/from zero; this is not a voter-transfer estimate. 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=["UNE","VAMOS","TODOS","UCN","VIVA","LIDER","PP","CREO","FCN-NACION","UNIONISTA","SEMILLA","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[13.849238554446938,28.21406406645343,0,0,31.040244426409508,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.896452952690126],[17.899906196545825,23.97505931689014,0,0,20.493295811951665,0,0,33.95685041107984,0,3.6748882635325275,0,0],[5.648405189507677,0,0,0,0,25.296017222820236,58.33663815081299,0,0,0,0,10.7189394368591]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

68.02percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Eleven exact standalone party labels in the certified tables. Coalition ballots, civic committees, unverified renamed parties and all others remain Other. Dissolved and newly entering parties can move to/from zero; this is not a voter-transfer estimate. 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=["UNE","VAMOS","TODOS","UCN","VIVA","LIDER","PP","CREO","FCN-NACION","UNIONISTA","SEMILLA","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[13.849238554446938,28.21406406645343,0,0,31.040244426409508,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.896452952690126],[17.899906196545825,23.97505931689014,0,0,20.493295811951665,0,0,33.95685041107984,0,3.6748882635325275,0,0],[5.648405189507677,0,0,0,0,25.296017222820236,58.33663815081299,0,0,0,0,10.7189394368591]]

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.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
Rodrigo Buch GranadosAlcalde2015PPunknown
Rigoberto Quiyuch de LeónSíndico I2015PPunknown
Domingo Monroy SinaySíndico II2015PPunknown
Lorenzo Justiniano López TuquerSíndico Suplente2015PPunknown
Alejo Boror TuncheConcejal 12015PPunknown
Ambrocio Palma VásquezConcejal 22015PPunknown
Tomás López AjcucConcejal 32015PPunknown
Sandra Aracely Mutz PocónConcejal 42015PPunknown
Erik Humberto Ajcip PocónConcejal 52015LIDERunknown
Alfonso Cotzojay GranadosConcejal suplente 12015PPunknown
Edgar Federico Pocón ArchilaConcejal suplente 22015PPunknown
NOE LEOPOLDO BOROR HERNANDEZALCALDE2019CREOunknown
JOSÉ ALFREDO TURUY CANELSÍNDICO PRIMERO2019CREOunknown
FELIX QUIYUCH XUYÁSÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019CREOunknown
CARLOS RENÉ PATZÁN TOLSÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019CREOunknown
HIGINIO PATZÁN CHAICOJCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019CREOunknown
CIRILO GALLINA TUNCHECONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019CREOunknown
EDWIN ORLANDO PEINADO CRUZCONCEJAL TERCERO2019VAMOSunknown
MIGUEL ANGEL MONROY CHUQUIEJCONCEJAL CUARTO2019VIVAunknown
SILVERIO GRANADOS POCÓNCONCEJAL QUINTO2019UNEunknown
FÉLIX STUARDO SUBUYUJ ICOPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019CREOunknown
EDGAR APIXOLÁ MONROYSEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019VAMOSunknown
JUAN LEONEL CULAJAY PÉREZALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023VIVAunknown
MAYNOR LISANDRO PATZÁN POCÓNSINDICO I2023VIVAunknown
BRUNO BOCH PIXTUNSINDICO II2023VIVAunknown
MARÍA ANTONIETA OXCAL GÓMEZCONCEJAL I2023VIVAunknown
ANTONY MIGUEL DE LOS SANTOSCONCEJAL II2023VIVAunknown
RODOLFO DE JESÚS CULAJAY CHETCONCEJAL III2023VIVAunknown
NICOLÁS PATZÁN CHITAYCONCEJAL IV2023VAMOSunknown
CARLOS ORELLANA SABÁNCONCEJAL V2023VAMOSunknown
HIGINIO PATZÁN CHAICOJCONCEJAL VI2023VALORunknown
JHONY GEOVANNI GRANADOS PÉREZCONCEJAL VII2023UNEunknown
JUAN PIOX COJÓNSINDICO SUPLENTE I2023VIVAunknown
DAVID ORLANDO MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZCONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023VIVAunknown
MARCELO AQUINO CULAJAYCONCEJAL SUPLENTE II2023VAMOSunknown
JUSTINO POCÓN CRUZCONCEJAL SUPLENTE III2023VALORunknown

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

  • other · open

    Country screen evidence: TSE Memoria Electoral 2015 — final municipal votes and adjudications (archived official report); Archived primary final electoral report; downloaded and parsed; source date 2015. All 340 municipalities have certified 2015/2019/2023 evidence, including valid repeated polls. Three usable vote series are available for 324 offices. Thirteen vote discrepancies, thirteen seat discrepancies and four mayor-proclamation issues remain flagged. Superseded initial polls are not extra cycles. Current incumbents and later replacements remain to be checked.

  • other · open

    Country screen evidence: TSE Memoria Electoral 2019 — final municipal votes and adjudications (archived official report); Archived primary final electoral report; downloaded and parsed; source date 2019. All 340 municipalities have certified 2015/2019/2023 evidence, including valid repeated polls. Three usable vote series are available for 324 offices. Thirteen vote discrepancies, thirteen seat discrepancies and four mayor-proclamation issues remain flagged. Superseded initial polls are not extra cycles. Current incumbents and later replacements remain to be checked.

  • other · open

    Country screen evidence: TSE Memoria Electoral 2023 — final municipal votes and adjudications (archived official report); Archived primary final electoral report; downloaded and parsed; source date 2023. All 340 municipalities have certified 2015/2019/2023 evidence, including valid repeated polls. Three usable vote series are available for 324 offices. Thirteen vote discrepancies, thirteen seat discrepancies and four mayor-proclamation issues remain flagged. Superseded initial polls are not extra cycles. Current incumbents and later replacements remain to be checked.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “San Pedro Sacatepéquez — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-01-09. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.