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San Pablo La Laguna — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot

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Guatemala · San Pablo La Laguna / Sololá · municipal · Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballotGT-M-07-15

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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 Pablo La Laguna / Sololá
Next election
2027-06-27
Linked upcoming event
next-6ed0f26760fbcc259eb37fd6
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

  • VAMOS41.3%
  • UNE31.9%
  • CABAL18.3%
  • AZUL8.5%
Results for event-46f9848ea255b2e25e236411
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
VAMOS · GASPAR IXCAYA CULUMguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,85941.3%5Recorded
UNEguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20231,43831.9%1Recorded
CABALguatemala/S86641369d4ca/202382418.3%1Recorded
AZULguatemala/S86641369d4ca/20233848.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-06-16

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNE41.0%
  • VAMOS39.2%
  • SEMILLA8.8%
  • CREO4.3%
  • VIVA3.9%
  • FUERZA1.8%
  • FCN-NACION0.5%
  • WINAQ0.4%
  • PHG0.2%
Results for event-f5676e30cd4ba008236cc310
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNE · JUAN UJPAN PIYguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191,81241%5Recorded
VAMOSguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191,73339.2%2Recorded
SEMILLAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20193888.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CREOguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191884.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
VIVAguatemala/S6d250220e847/20191743.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FUERZAguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019801.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
FCN-NACIONguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019210.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
WINAQguatemala/S6d250220e847/2019190.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PHGguatemala/S6d250220e847/201970.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-09-06

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • PP38.7%
  • UNE30.3%
  • LIDER28.3%
  • WINAQ1.1%
  • UCN1.0%
  • CONVERGENCIA0.3%
  • CREO- Unionista0.3%
Results for event-aea90499f4bcc524f2284ec6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PP · Sebastian Ixcayá Chipirguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,64138.7%5Recorded
UNE · Juan Ujpan Piyguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,28330.3%1Recorded
LIDER · Gaspar Ixcaya Culumguatemala/S6241581360d0/20151,20128.3%1Recorded
WINAQ · Romeo Ramiro Ratzam Lejaguatemala/S6241581360d0/2015451.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UCN · Marcos Poron Quiacainguatemala/S6241581360d0/2015441%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CONVERGENCIA · Paulina Culum Xajilguatemala/S6241581360d0/2015130.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CREO- Unionista · Andres Ixcaya Perezguatemala/S6241581360d0/2015110.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

65.060–100 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=9.34517203107658, oldest_gap=8.44738084001888, previous_gap=1.7865219357756672

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.49percentage 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=[[31.920088790233073,41.26526082130965,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.814650388457274],[40.976933514246944,39.19041157847128,0,0,3.9348710990502034,0,0,4.251469923111714,0.47489823609226595,0,8.77431026684758,2.397105382180009],[30.273714016045304,0,0,1.0382255781028786,0,28.338839075035395,38.721094856064184,0,0,0,0,1.6281264747522415]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

68.1percentage 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=[[31.920088790233073,41.26526082130965,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.814650388457274],[40.976933514246944,39.19041157847128,0,0,3.9348710990502034,0,0,4.251469923111714,0.47489823609226595,0,8.77431026684758,2.397105382180009],[30.273714016045304,0,0,1.0382255781028786,0,28.338839075035395,38.721094856064184,0,0,0,0,1.6281264747522415]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.3percentage 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=[[31.920088790233073,41.26526082130965,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,26.814650388457274],[40.976933514246944,39.19041157847128,0,0,3.9348710990502034,0,0,4.251469923111714,0.47489823609226595,0,8.77431026684758,2.397105382180009],[30.273714016045304,0,0,1.0382255781028786,0,28.338839075035395,38.721094856064184,0,0,0,0,1.6281264747522415]]

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?
Sebastian Ixcayá ChipirAlcalde2015PPunknown
Pedro Ujpan QuiacaínSíndico I2015PPunknown
Nazario Esteban Quiacain LejaSíndico II2015PPunknown
Diego Ixcayá IxcayáSíndico Suplente2015PPunknown
Wilson Culúm MatzarConcejal 12015PPunknown
Diego Culúm IxcayáConcejal 22015PPunknown
Manuel Ixcayá IxcayáConcejal 32015UNEunknown
Pedro Xajil AjquivijayConcejal 42015LIDERunknown
Domingo Ujpan XajilConcejal suplente 12015PPunknown
Mirna Matilde Ujpan RatzamConcejal suplente 22015UNEunknown
JUAN UJPAN PIYALCALDE2019UNEunknown
JORGE UJPAN XAJILSÍNDICO PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
JUAN IXCAYA UJPÁNSÍNDICO SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
MARCOS YAC QUIACAINSÍNDICO SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
SERGIO OSWALDO PETZEY XELEMANGOCONCEJAL PRIMERO2019UNEunknown
LUCIA CUC IXCAYÁCONCEJAL SEGUNDO2019UNEunknown
OSCAR MÉNDEZ GÓMEZCONCEJAL TERCERO2019VAMOSunknown
FELIPE PORON QUIACAINCONCEJAL CUARTO2019VAMOSunknown
DIEGO QUIACAIN IXCAYÁPRIMER CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019UNEunknown
ABRAHAM IXCAYÁ GUAJÁNSEGUNDO CONCEJAL SUPLENTE2019VAMOSunknown
GASPAR IXCAYA CULUMALCALDE MUNICIPAL2023VAMOSunknown
PABLO UJPAN IXCAYASINDICO I2023VAMOSunknown
FELIPE QUIACAIN RATZAMSINDICO II2023VAMOSunknown
VICENTE CUC XAJILCONCEJAL I2023VAMOSunknown
ANTONIO LEJA QUIACAINCONCEJAL II2023VAMOSunknown
NAZARIO IGNACIO PORON PETZEYCONCEJAL III2023UNEunknown
FELIPE PORON QUIACAINCONCEJAL IV2023CABALunknown
DIEGO MANUEL SOJVEN IXCAYASINDICO SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
GABRIEL QUIACAN PETZEYCONCEJAL SUPLENTE I2023VAMOSunknown
NICOLAS CUC PORONCONCEJAL SUPLENTE II2023UNEunknown

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 Pablo La Laguna — Municipal corporation — shared mayor/council ballot.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GT-M-07-15. Sources: guatemala--url-e1fb17bd9b2b6a792a269e9e, guatemala--url-af4ae16617a8a33434830962, guatemala--url-62f5b3430b66377f9a7c4645, guatemala--S86641369d4ca, guatemala--S6d250220e847, guatemala--S6241581360d0.