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Santa María Visitación — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · Santa María Visitación / Sololá · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-07-03

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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
Santa María Visitación / Sololá
Next election
2027-06-27
Linked upcoming event
next-41d80df1f8d99428dd0a09bf
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

  • VAMOS50.4%
  • CABAL46.2%
  • VALOR UNIONISTA3.4%
Results for event-aef5b599b34bb8c82db6e0aa
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VAMOS · MARIO ROBERTO DIONISIO DIONISIOguatemala/S86641369d4ca/202374150.4%5Recorded
CABALguatemala/S86641369d4ca/202367846.2%2Recorded
VALOR UNIONISTAguatemala/S86641369d4ca/2023503.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • VAMOS35.5%
  • URGN-MAIZ32.7%
  • VIVA22.3%
  • FUERZA4.8%
  • SEMILLA4.6%
Results for event-5b511f4ca589554a13450190
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VAMOS · MARIO ROBERTO DIONISIO DIONISIOguatemala/S6d250220e847/201949535.5%5Recorded
URGN-MAIZguatemala/S6d250220e847/201945632.7%1Recorded
VIVAguatemala/S6d250220e847/201931122.3%1Recorded
FUERZAguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019674.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
SEMILLAguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019644.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-09-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • TODOS40.0%
  • LIDER34.4%
  • PP21.8%
  • UNE3.8%
Results for event-54ff58b76b2f2ef4f7f2d944
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
TODOS · Mario Roberto Dionisio Dionisioguatemala/S6241581360d0/201550940%5Recorded
LIDER · Edgar Rolando Sosa Dionisioguatemala/S6241581360d0/201543834.4%1Recorded
PP · Gerardo Chavajay Dionisioguatemala/S6241581360d0/201527821.8%1Recorded
UNE · Diego Adrian Chavajay Dionicioguatemala/S6241581360d0/2015483.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

80.150–100 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=4.2886317222600425, oldest_gap=5.577376276512176, previous_gap=2.7997128499641093

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.92percentage 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=[[0,50.442477876106196,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.557522123893804],[0,35.53481694185212,0,0,22.32591529073941,0,0,0,0,0,4.594400574300072,37.5448671931084],[3.7706205813040063,0,39.98428908091123,0,0,34.406912804399056,21.838177533385704,0,0,0,0,0]]

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=[[0,50.442477876106196,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.557522123893804],[0,35.53481694185212,0,0,22.32591529073941,0,0,0,0,0,4.594400574300072,37.5448671931084],[3.7706205813040063,0,39.98428908091123,0,0,34.406912804399056,21.838177533385704,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

63.46percentage 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=[[0,50.442477876106196,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,49.557522123893804],[0,35.53481694185212,0,0,22.32591529073941,0,0,0,0,0,4.594400574300072,37.5448671931084],[3.7706205813040063,0,39.98428908091123,0,0,34.406912804399056,21.838177533385704,0,0,0,0,0]]

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?
Mario Roberto Dionisio DionisioAlcalde2015TODOSunknown
Catarino Teleguario IxenSíndico I2015TODOSunknown
Bartolo Celada PérezSíndico II2015TODOSunknown
Edgar Chavajay DionicioSíndico Suplente2015TODOSunknown
Lucia Adriana Cox ChavajayConcejal 12015TODOSunknown
Reyes Baltasar Tahay CimilianConcejal 22015TODOSunknown
Angela Filomena Sosa Cox de ChavajayConcejal 32015LIDERunknown
Ana Florinda Dionisio Yac de ChavajayConcejal 42015PPunknown
José de León ChutáConcejal suplente 12015TODOSunknown
Luis Chavajay DionisioConcejal suplente 22015LIDERunknown
MARIO ROBERTO DIONISIO DIONISIOALCALDE2019VAMOSunknown
ADELIO EDUARDO DIONISIO TOHOMSÍNDICO PRIMERO2019VAMOSunknown
HELDER MAIXIMIANO SOSA AJUSÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019VAMOSunknown
JOSÉ MIGUEL GONZÁLES CHAVAJAYSÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019VAMOSunknown
CASIMIRO MUY VÁSQUEZCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019VAMOSunknown
WERNER EMANUEL SOSA TEPAZCONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019VAMOSunknown
ODILIA CAROLINA DIONISIO CUÁCONCEJAL TERCERO2019URNG-MAIZunknown
VICENTA CHAVAJAY DIONISIOCONCEJAL CUARTO2019VIVAunknown
DANTE RIVELINO CUTZAL CHAVAJAYPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019VAMOSunknown
ROBERTO ANTONIO CHAVAJAY GODOYSEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019URNG-MAIZunknown
MARIO ROBERTO DIONISIO DIONISIOALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023VAMOSunknown
ENRIQUE EUGENIO PACHECO TAHAYSINDICO I2023VAMOSunknown
NICOLAS CHAVAJAY CHAVAJAYSINDICO II2023VAMOSunknown
CRUZ BENIGNO JAMINEZ CHOVONCONCEJAL I2023VAMOSunknown
HERMELINDO PANTALEON CHOX ATZCONCEJAL II2023VAMOSunknown
ARMANDO ALFREDO CHÁVEZ CHAVAJAYCONCEJAL III2023CABALunknown
JUAN DIONISIO IXMAY CALELCONCEJAL IV2023CABALunknown
HERBERT ANTONIO PÉREZ JUÁREZSINDICO SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
MAXIMILIANO EUGENIO LÓPEZ AJÚCONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
GLENDA MAGDALENA PÉREZ AJSOCCONCEJAL SUPLENTE II2023CABALunknown

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. “Santa María Visitación — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-07-03. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.