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MARTHA BRAE — Electoral division councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Jamaica · MARTHA BRAE / TRELAWNY · municipal · Electoral division councillorJM-W-TRELAWNY-MARTHA-BRAE

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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
MARTHA BRAE / TRELAWNY
Next election
2028-02
Linked upcoming event
next-6e1f51b52dafcbdac807569c
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 — MARTHA BRAE (IND A)1.7%
  • JLP40.7%
  • PNP56.9%
Results for event-444d8744227e572deb187314
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
Independent — MARTHA BRAE (IND A)IND Ajamaica/S975fca3559/2024351.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JLPJLPjamaica/S975fca3559/202481940.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S975fca3559/20241,14356.9%1Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP48.1%
  • PNP51.3%
Results for event-b865a859e61ee3660354fbd7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S375abb1313/201682448.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S375abb1313/201687851.3%1Recorded

2012-03-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • Independent — MARTHA BRAE (IND)0.5%
  • JLP38.6%
  • PNP60.3%
Results for event-459aaed1c48cd15b803a2d56
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
Independent — MARTHA BRAE (IND)INDjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/2012100.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
JLPJLPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/201276538.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/20121,19360.3%1Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

35.690–100 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=16.22433650475714, oldest_gap=21.74796747967479, previous_gap=3.1727379553466477

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

7.4percentage 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=[[41.01151727591387,57.23585378067101,1.7526289434151228],[48.413631022326676,51.586368977673324,0],[38.8719512195122,60.61991869918699,0.508130081300813]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

9.54percentage 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=[[41.01151727591387,57.23585378067101,1.7526289434151228],[48.413631022326676,51.586368977673324,0],[38.8719512195122,60.61991869918699,0.508130081300813]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

8.47percentage 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=[[41.01151727591387,57.23585378067101,1.7526289434151228],[48.413631022326676,51.586368977673324,0],[38.8719512195122,60.61991869918699,0.508130081300813]]

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