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Siquinalá — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · Siquinalá / Escuintla · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-05-04

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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
Siquinalá / Escuintla
Next election
2027-06-27
Linked upcoming event
next-127657038ceca71bfbf4b4d9
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

  • VALOR41.3%
  • VICTORIA15.4%
  • PODEMOS14.9%
  • CREO11.3%
  • UNE5.0%
  • VAMOS4.4%
  • PHG2.7%
  • VOS1.9%
  • FCN-NACION1.7%
  • TODOS0.9%
  • BIEN0.3%
  • MI FAMILIA0.2%
  • CAMBIO0.0%
Results for event-dd9d0ef67cb2b555dc063741
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VALOR · DANIEL GONZALEZ JIMENEZguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20234,45941.3%6Recorded
VICTORIAguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,66515.4%1Recorded
PODEMOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,61114.9%1Recorded
CREOguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,21711.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNEguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20235365%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20234774.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PHGguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232902.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232011.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FCN-NACIONguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231791.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
TODOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023960.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
BIENguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023330.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MI FAMILIAguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023200.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CAMBIOguatemala/S86641369d4ca/202350%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • CREO34.3%
  • UNE25.3%
  • UCN23.7%
  • FUERZA8.4%
  • FCN-NACION3.3%
  • VAMOS2.8%
  • PC1.6%
  • PODEMOS0.7%
Results for event-05e405edfd0df4f8de175d57
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CREO · EDGAR ROBERTO ALVAREZ VELIZguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193,29934.3%5Recorded
UNEguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192,43025.3%1Recorded
UCNguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192,27923.7%1Recorded
FUERZAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20198098.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FCN-NACIONguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193153.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192652.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PCguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191541.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PODEMOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019630.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-09-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNE28.6%
  • CREO- Unionista25.8%
  • PP19.4%
  • LIDER19.3%
  • TODOS6.8%
Results for event-74e651401421a0a71555f29c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNE · Carlos Stuardo Dardón Grajedaguatemala/S6241581360d0/20152,59728.6%4Recorded
CREO- Unionista · Edgar Roberto Álvarez Velizguatemala/S6241581360d0/20152,34925.8%1Recorded
PP · Verny Danilo Veliz Porrasguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,76519.4%1Recorded
LIDER · Roy Enrique Soberanis Sánchezguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,75719.3%1Recorded
TODOS · Juan José Ramón Arévalo Montenegroguatemala/S6241581360d0/20156216.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

7.390–100 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=25.896746686439897, oldest_gap=2.7285730003300728, previous_gap=9.038901601830663

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

68.66percentage 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=[[4.968022986375011,4.4211697098897025,0.889795161738808,0,0,0,0,11.28000741495968,1.6590972286588193,0,0,76.78190749837799],[25.275639692115664,2.7563969211566466,0,23.705013521947162,0,0,0,34.31454129394633,3.2764718119409193,0,0,10.671936758893281],[28.573000330069316,0,6.8324348113103754,0,0,19.331059522499725,19.41907800638134,0,0,0,0,25.844427329739244]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

64.05percentage 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=[[4.968022986375011,4.4211697098897025,0.889795161738808,0,0,0,0,11.28000741495968,1.6590972286588193,0,0,76.78190749837799],[25.275639692115664,2.7563969211566466,0,23.705013521947162,0,0,0,34.31454129394633,3.2764718119409193,0,0,10.671936758893281],[28.573000330069316,0,6.8324348113103754,0,0,19.331059522499725,19.41907800638134,0,0,0,0,25.844427329739244]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.36percentage 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=[[4.968022986375011,4.4211697098897025,0.889795161738808,0,0,0,0,11.28000741495968,1.6590972286588193,0,0,76.78190749837799],[25.275639692115664,2.7563969211566466,0,23.705013521947162,0,0,0,34.31454129394633,3.2764718119409193,0,0,10.671936758893281],[28.573000330069316,0,6.8324348113103754,0,0,19.331059522499725,19.41907800638134,0,0,0,0,25.844427329739244]]

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?
Carlos Stuardo Dardón GrajedaAlcalde2015UNEunknown
Nestor Omar Castillo GarcíaSíndico I2015UNEunknown
César Augusto Xiloj TorresSíndico II2015UNEunknown
José Miguel Gutiérrez EscobarSíndico Suplente2015UNEunknown
Juan Pablo Godínez GuzmánConcejal 12015UNEunknown
Pedro de Paz SomaConcejal 22015CREO-Unionistaunknown
Julio Otoniel González LobosConcejal 32015PPunknown
Miguel Alfonso Sicay MarínConcejal 42015LIDERunknown
Verny Darío Escobar CastellanosConcejal suplente 12015UNEunknown
Nora Johana Ramírez Ramos de CoronadoConcejal suplente 22015CREO-Unionistaunknown
EDGAR ROBERTO ALVAREZ VELIZALCALDE MUNICIPAL2019CREOunknown
ROGER GUILLERMO DAVILA MONTENEGROSÍNDICO PRIMERO2019CREOunknown
PEDRO ANTONIO GUTIERREZ ISPACHESÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019CREOunknown
BERNARDO LÓPEZ LUISSÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019CREOunknown
JUAN ALBERTO MACHUCA ALVAREZCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019CREOunknown
ELMER SALGUERO SARCEÑOCONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019CREOunknown
MANUEL AUGUSTO GUZMAN DE LA ROCACONCEJAL TERCERO2019UNEunknown
NERY ALEXADER SANDOVALCONCEJAL CUARTO2019UCNunknown
MARIANDRE ORTEGA PINZONPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019CREOunknown
JUAN FRANCISCO LÓPEZ RAXTÚNSEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
DANIEL GONZALEZ JIMENEZALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023VALORunknown
CARLOS JOEL CHICOJ MIRANDASINDICO I2023VALORunknown
ARGENTINA LEMUS GUZMANSINDICO II2023VALORunknown
JUAN HUMBERTO ARCE PAMALCONCEJAL I2023VALORunknown
ANA LUCIA CASTILLO DIAZCONCEJAL II2023VALORunknown
CARLOS ALFONSO ALVAREZ MELGARCONCEJAL III2023VALORunknown
NERY ALEXANDER SANDOVALCONCEJAL IV2023VICTORIAunknown
IVAN EDUARDO HERNANDEZ CONTRERASCONCEJAL V2023PODEMOSunknown
ROLANDO ZOMETASINDICO SUPLENTE I2023VALORunknown
JORGE ANTONIO ELIAS PU CASTROCONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023VALORunknown
ELDER GUSTAVO MUN JUAREZCONCEJAL 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. “Siquinalá — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-05-04. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.