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Guazacapán — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · Guazacapán / Santa Rosa · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-06-11

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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
Guazacapán / Santa Rosa
Next election
2027-06-27
Linked upcoming event
next-e4b0d8e878b3be0911f37032
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

  • UNE43.9%
  • VAMOS37.6%
  • CABAL15.3%
  • AZUL2.7%
  • MI FAMILIA0.4%
Results for event-0dffa2212b191427c23d33da
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNE · NOEL DE LA CRUZ PABLOguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20233,56843.9%5Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20233,05637.6%2Recorded
CABALguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,24015.3%1Recorded
AZULguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20232212.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MI FAMILIAguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023340.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNE42.7%
  • PHG28.3%
  • FCN-NACION13.8%
  • UCN12.3%
  • UNIONISTA2.2%
  • PAN0.5%
  • AVANZA0.2%
Results for event-a67016a9690468a718def64d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNE · FRANCISCO ORANTESguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193,32642.7%6Recorded
PHGguatemala/S6d250220e847/20192,20328.3%1Recorded
FCN-NACIONguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191,07513.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UCNguatemala/S6d250220e847/201996112.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNIONISTAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191752.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PANguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019380.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
AVANZAguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019160.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-09-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • PP54.9%
  • LIDER33.7%
  • UNE7.3%
  • TODOS4.1%
Results for event-f5d05fa2659b632d0341314d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PP · Francisco Orantesguatemala/S6241581360d0/20154,12054.9%6Recorded
LIDER · Noel De La Cruz Pabloguatemala/S6241581360d0/20152,52633.7%1Recorded
UNE · Jaime Noe Ortiz Gonzálezguatemala/S6241581360d0/20155517.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
TODOS · Vacanteguatemala/S6241581360d0/20153094.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

48.850–100 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=6.3061953442542205, oldest_gap=21.236344257926994, previous_gap=14.408519373877343

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

38.91percentage 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=[[43.94629880527159,37.64010346101737,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18.41359773371105],[42.67385168078009,0,0,12.32999743392353,0,0,0,0,13.792661021298434,2.2453169104439312,0,28.958172953554016],[7.340794031441513,0,4.116706634692246,0,0,33.65307753796962,54.88942179589662,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

92.66percentage 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: 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=[[43.94629880527159,37.64010346101737,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18.41359773371105],[42.67385168078009,0,0,12.32999743392353,0,0,0,0,13.792661021298434,2.2453169104439312,0,28.958172953554016],[7.340794031441513,0,4.116706634692246,0,0,33.65307753796962,54.88942179589662,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

65.79percentage 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=[[43.94629880527159,37.64010346101737,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,18.41359773371105],[42.67385168078009,0,0,12.32999743392353,0,0,0,0,13.792661021298434,2.2453169104439312,0,28.958172953554016],[7.340794031441513,0,4.116706634692246,0,0,33.65307753796962,54.88942179589662,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
Francisco OrantesAlcalde2015PPunknown
Orlando Benjamín Mejía RodasSíndico I2015PPunknown
Pedro Abrahán del Cid AlvizuresSíndico II2015PPunknown
Kevin Dionel López de La CruzSíndico Suplente2015PPunknown
Julio Gómez RamírezConcejal 12015PPunknown
Abel Godoy GarcíaConcejal 22015PPunknown
Edgar Alfredo López PérezConcejal 32015PPunknown
Juan José Pérez GarcíaConcejal 42015LIDERunknown
Marcia Yaneli Carbajal PérezConcejal suplente 12015PPunknown
Alfredo SantosConcejal suplente 22015LIDERunknown
FRANCISCO ORANTESALCALDE MUNICIPAL2019UNEunknown
SULYVAN CAROLO GODOY ESTRADASÍNDICO PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
JULIO GOMEZ RAMÍREZSÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
EDGAR ROLANDO MARTIR CRUZSÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
EDGAR ALFREDO LOPEZ PEREZCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
MARIA JOSEFINA MORALES BARILLAS GALINDOCONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
LUCIO RODOLFO HURTADO SOLÍSCONCEJAL TERCERO2019UNEunknown
IRAN ALEJOS HERNANDEZ VASQUEZCONCEJAL CUARTO2019PHGunknown
CARLOS NATANAÉL HERNÁNDEZ VASQUEZPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
CARLOS HUMBERTO BENITO GOMEZSEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019PHGunknown
NOEL DE LA CRUZ PABLOALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023UNEunknown
CARLOS HUMBERTO BENITO GOMEZSINDICO I2023UNEunknown
TESLA YESENIA HERNANDEZ GUDIELSINDICO II2023UNEunknown
EDGAR DONALDO CONTRERAS PABLOCONCEJAL I2023UNEunknown
MARVIN NOE MARROQUIN SOLORZANOCONCEJAL II2023UNEunknown
EDGAR ALFREDO LOPEZ PEREZCONCEJAL III2023VAMOSunknown
LESTER JOHANATAN CASTILLO CONTRERASCONCEJAL IV2023VAMOSunknown
VICTOR MANUEL VASQUEZ GONZALEZCONCEJAL V2023CABALunknown
TRINIDAD DE JESUS PEREZ LOPEZ DE BAUTISTASINDICO SUPLENTE I2023UNEunknown
JOSE LEON QUEVEDO ORTIZCONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023UNEunknown
KAREN ANAYANCI ORTIZ MONZONCONCEJAL SUPLENTE II2023VAMOSunknown

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. “Guazacapán — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-06-11. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.