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Morazán — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · Morazán / El Progreso · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-04-02

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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
Morazán / El Progreso
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

  • VAMOS55.3%
  • VALOR41.5%
  • UNE1.9%
  • TODOS1.3%
Results for event-dbac0682430be497d3580003
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VAMOS · MARCO TULIO ARRIAZA CORDOVAguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20233,21055.3%5Recorded
VALORguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232,40741.5%2Recorded
UNEguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231081.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
TODOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023751.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNE49.6%
  • TODOS41.2%
  • VAMOS5.5%
  • CREO3.7%
Results for event-195779ff6e5a4e99fe924177
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNE · MARCO TULIO ARRIAZA CÓRDOVAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192,96749.6%5Recorded
TODOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192,46541.2%2Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193275.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CREOguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192203.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-10-25

Repeated / replacement · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • PP50.9%
  • LIDER49.1%
Results for event-27e26398c518277083e0b18c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PP · Miguel Angel Arriaza Moralesguatemala/S6241581360d0/20153,02650.9%5Recorded
LIDER · Marco Tulio Arriaza Cordovaguatemala/S6241581360d0/20152,91849.1%2Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

44.960–100 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=13.844827586206897, oldest_gap=1.816958277254372, previous_gap=8.396052851647433

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

91.38percentage 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=[[1.8620689655172413,55.3448275862069,1.293103448275862,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.5],[49.623682890115404,5.469141996989463,41.22763003846797,0,0,0,0,3.679545074427162,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,49.091520861372814,50.908479138627186,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

100percentage 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=[[1.8620689655172413,55.3448275862069,1.293103448275862,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.5],[49.623682890115404,5.469141996989463,41.22763003846797,0,0,0,0,3.679545074427162,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,49.091520861372814,50.908479138627186,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

95.69percentage 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=[[1.8620689655172413,55.3448275862069,1.293103448275862,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,41.5],[49.623682890115404,5.469141996989463,41.22763003846797,0,0,0,0,3.679545074427162,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,49.091520861372814,50.908479138627186,0,0,0,0,0]]

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.

Officeholder observations
PersonRoleAs ofAffiliationPrincipal?
Miguel Angel Arriaza MoralesAlcalde2015PPunknown
Elisandro Velásquez PortilloSíndico I2015PPunknown
Erin Leonel GarcíaSíndico II2015PPunknown
Nuelmar Rene Aragón MartínezSíndico Suplente2015PPunknown
Daniel Pineda AragónConcejal 12015PPunknown
Rogelio Turcios MoralesConcejal 22015PPunknown
Wvuber Yasel Dubón ArriazaConcejal 32015LIDERunknown
Hugo Leonel Aragón BalcarcelConcejal 42015LIDERunknown
Armando Evaristo Catalán PérezConcejal suplente 12015PPunknown
Ruperto Pantaleón PinedaConcejal suplente 22015LIDERunknown
MARCO TULIO ARRIAZA CÓRDOVAALCALDE2019UNEunknown
ARMANDO EVARISTO CATALÁN PERÉZSÍNDICO PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
DAVID CÁSTRO TISTASÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
CARLOS ENRIQUE ORTEGA GARCÍASÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
JUAN GABRIEL JUÁREZ VÉLIZCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
CARLOS EDUARDO MORALES TURCIOSCONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
DANIEL PINEDA ARAGONCONCEJAL TERCERO2019TODOSunknown
ROGELIO TURCIOS MORALESCONCEJAL CUARTO2019TODOSunknown
LUIS ANDRES VÉLIZ ORELLANAPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
JUAN CAHUEQUESEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019TODOSunknown
MARCO TULIO ARRIAZA CORDOVAALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023VAMOSunknown
ARMANDO EVARISTO CATALAN PÉREZSINDICO I2023VAMOSunknown
DAVID CASTRO TISTASINDICO II2023VAMOSunknown
CARLOS EDUARDO MORALES TURCIOSCONCEJAL I2023VAMOSunknown
JUAN GABRIEL JUAREZ VELIZCONCEJAL II2023VAMOSunknown
ISRAEL ROJAS ORDOÑEZCONCEJAL III2023VALORunknown
MARIO HERMELINDO MORALES SALAZARCONCEJAL IV2023VALORunknown
BYRON RENE LOPEZ CASTROSINDICO SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
LUIS ANDRES VELIZ ORELLANACONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
GLENDA NINETH CASTILLO MEJIACONCEJAL SUPLENTE II2023VALORunknown

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. “Morazán — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-04-02. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.