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MALVERN — Electoral division councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Jamaica · MALVERN / ST ELIZABETH · municipal · Electoral division councillorJM-W-ST-ELIZABETH-MALVERN

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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
MALVERN / ST ELIZABETH
Next election
2028-02
Linked upcoming event
next-f3048c14b13ffce1af9dab7d
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 — MALVERN (IND A)0.6%
  • JLP50.6%
  • PNP47.9%
Results for event-7c4ebe903cd6a96910419460
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
Independent — MALVERN (IND A)IND Ajamaica/S975fca3559/2024160.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JLPJLPjamaica/S975fca3559/20241,33250.6%1Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S975fca3559/20241,26347.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • Independent — MALVERN (INDS)0.5%
  • JLP52.9%
  • PNP45.7%
Results for event-0c934cdc8436d5d22f23422d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
Independent — MALVERN (INDS)INDSjamaica/S375abb1313/2016160.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JLPJLPjamaica/S375abb1313/20161,56552.9%1Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S375abb1313/20161,35345.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2012-03-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP43.5%
  • PNP55.3%
Results for event-458f0dc87cede3410ffe3f2e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20121,34843.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20121,71655.3%1Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

75.230–100 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=2.642665645346611, oldest_gap=12.01044386422977, previous_gap=7.225630538513975

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

2.33percentage 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=[[51.01493680582153,48.37227116047492,0.6127920337035618],[53.34014996591684,46.11451942740286,0.5453306066803],[43.994778067885115,56.005221932114885,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

9.89percentage 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=[[51.01493680582153,48.37227116047492,0.6127920337035618],[53.34014996591684,46.11451942740286,0.5453306066803],[43.994778067885115,56.005221932114885,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

6.11percentage 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=[[51.01493680582153,48.37227116047492,0.6127920337035618],[53.34014996591684,46.11451942740286,0.5453306066803],[43.994778067885115,56.005221932114885,0]]

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. “MALVERN — Electoral division councillor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/JM-W-ST-ELIZABETH-MALVERN. Sources: jamaica--url-b1bfddcea4443c34b2ed3119, jamaica--url-74b9a8a4565d376c1ee70961, jamaica--url-5eba0e7de6d09ab6469c4a9b, jamaica--S975fca3559, jamaica--S375abb1313, jamaica--S60dfdaaaba.