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Office briefing

MAXFIELD PARK — Electoral division councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Jamaica · MAXFIELD PARK / KINGSTON & ST ANDREW · municipal · Electoral division councillorJM-W-KINGSTON-ST-ANDREW-MAXFIELD-PARK

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Individual ward ballot. Parent council records aggregate the same ballots and must not be added to ward votes.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
MAXFIELD PARK / KINGSTON & ST ANDREW
Next election
2028-02
Linked upcoming event
next-eab0e736a47e2cd97882eb68
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2028-02 is expected (not formally called). Month precision — no calendar day supplied. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024-02-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • Independent — MAXFIELD PARK (IND E)1.4%
  • JLP9.7%
  • PNP87.0%
Results for event-f4adb8995317571cdec0e391
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
Independent — MAXFIELD PARK (IND E)IND Ejamaica/S975fca3559/2024391.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JLPJLPjamaica/S975fca3559/20242669.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S975fca3559/20242,38387%1Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP12.8%
  • PNP85.2%
Results for event-ef2c276aec773745aabc87de
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S375abb1313/201627112.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S375abb1313/20161,80285.2%1Recorded

2012-03-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP8.1%
  • PNP89.2%
Results for event-702ea251d4ea37890050a8c0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20121448.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20121,58589.2%1Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (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=78.75744047619048, oldest_gap=83.34297281665704, previous_gap=73.85431741437529

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

3.18percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). 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=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[9.895833333333334,88.65327380952381,1.4508928571428572],[13.072841292812349,86.92715870718764,0],[8.328513591671486,91.67148640832852,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

4.74percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). 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=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[9.895833333333334,88.65327380952381,1.4508928571428572],[13.072841292812349,86.92715870718764,0],[8.328513591671486,91.67148640832852,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

3.96percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). JLP, PNP and Other (minor parties and independents). 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=["JLP","PNP","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[9.895833333333334,88.65327380952381,1.4508928571428572],[13.072841292812349,86.92715870718764,0],[8.328513591671486,91.67148640832852,0]]

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.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

No open research issues attached to this office.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “MAXFIELD PARK — Electoral division councillor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/JM-W-KINGSTON-ST-ANDREW-MAXFIELD-PARK. Sources: jamaica--url-b1bfddcea4443c34b2ed3119, jamaica--url-74b9a8a4565d376c1ee70961, jamaica--url-5eba0e7de6d09ab6469c4a9b, jamaica--S975fca3559, jamaica--S375abb1313, jamaica--S60dfdaaaba.