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PORT KAITUMA MATTHEWS RIDGE/ARAKAKA — Local council PR component
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Guyana · PORT KAITUMA MATTHEWS RIDGE/ARAKAKA / Region 1 · municipal · Local council PR componentGY-PR-1.01
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PR declarations visually/digitally reviewed. PR seats are explicitly component-only; no whole-council majority or present government is inferred from them. Spelling bridges preserve original source identity.
1. What office, where, and when is the next election?
- Geography
- PORT KAITUMA MATTHEWS RIDGE/ARAKAKA / Region 1
- Next election
- Not supplied
- Linked upcoming event
- None
- Registry qualification
- Unknown
2. How certain is that date?
No next-election date is supplied for this office.
3. Who won earlier selected elections?
2023-06-12
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown
- PPP/C75.4%
- APNU24.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP/C | guyana/S939798b562/2023 | 1,570 | 75.4% | 5 | Recorded |
| APNU | guyana/S939798b562/2023 | 511 | 24.6% | 1 | Recorded |
2018-11-12
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown
- PPP/C52.0%
- APNU38.7%
- AFC9.4%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP/C | guyana/Sf30f33603d/2018 | 866 | 52% | 3 | Recorded |
| APNU | guyana/Sf30f33603d/2018 | 644 | 38.7% | 2 | Recorded |
| AFC | guyana/Sf30f33603d/2018 | 156 | 9.4% | 1 | Recorded |
2016-03-18
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown
- PPP/C51.5%
- APNU+AFC48.5%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP/C | guyana/S8e2e9b04f2/2016 | 735 | 51.5% | 3 | Recorded |
| APNU+AFC | guyana/S8e2e9b04f2/2016 | 693 | 48.5% | 3 | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=50.88899567515617, oldest_gap=2.941176470588232, previous_gap=13.325330132052827
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility23.46percentage points
Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PPP/C and Other on the PR ballot only. APNU, AFC, their joint slate and local groups stay together in Other to avoid treating a coalition split as a measured voter transfer. This deliberately coarse lower bound hides changes among every non-PPP/C list. Whole-council composition is separate. 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=["PPP/C","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[75.44449783757808,24.555502162421913],[51.980792316926774,48.019207683073226],[51.470588235294116,48.529411764705884]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility0.51percentage points
Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PPP/C and Other on the PR ballot only. APNU, AFC, their joint slate and local groups stay together in Other to avoid treating a coalition split as a measured voter transfer. This deliberately coarse lower bound hides changes among every non-PPP/C list. Whole-council composition is separate. 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=["PPP/C","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[75.44449783757808,24.555502162421913],[51.980792316926774,48.019207683073226],[51.470588235294116,48.529411764705884]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility11.99percentage points
Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). PPP/C and Other on the PR ballot only. APNU, AFC, their joint slate and local groups stay together in Other to avoid treating a coalition split as a measured voter transfer. This deliberately coarse lower bound hides changes among every non-PPP/C list. Whole-council composition is separate. 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=["PPP/C","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[75.44449783757808,24.555502162421913],[51.980792316926774,48.019207683073226],[51.470588235294116,48.529411764705884]]
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.
No officeholder observation supplied.
6. Polling context
No local poll supplied.
7. Unresolved issues and sources
PR declarations visually/digitally reviewed. PR seats are explicitly component-only; no whole-council majority or present government is inferred from them. Spelling bridges preserve original source identity. Older full PR vectors remain absent or inconsistent for several LAAs; Nile/Cozier 2018 has an unresolved printed-total conflict. The 2018 official index omits three towns. Whole-council constituency allocations, geography and current control remain incomplete. The Indigenous community directory is not a verified election register or a three-cycle return archive.
other · open
PR declaration qualification: Printed valid total 1428; seat label abbreviates coalition to APNU
Sources
- Guyana: https://gecom.org.gy/public/assets/docs/lge2023/form31s/1.01.pdf?v=6 · rights unknown
- Guyana: https://gecom.org.gy/public/assets/docs/results/2018%20-%20Local%20Government%20Elections/D01/Port%20Kaituma.pdf · rights unknown
- Guyana: https://gecom.org.gy/public/assets/docs/results/2016%20-%20Local%20Government%20Elections/D01/LAA/PORT_KAITUMA_MATTHEWS_RIDGE_ARAKAKA.pdf · rights unknown
- Guyana: gy_lge2023_1.01.pdf · rights unknown
- Guyana: gy2016_099.pdf · rights unknown
- Guyana: gy2016_023.pdf · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “PORT KAITUMA MATTHEWS RIDGE/ARAKAKA — Local council PR component.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/GY-PR-1.01. Sources: guyana--url-ea56afc7e086ae47cfd5ca53, guyana--url-a1902a4cb54b6c428c8bfdb7, guyana--url-31f16800dc55aec27c33a64c, guyana--S939798b562, guyana--Sf30f33603d, guyana--S8e2e9b04f2.