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LITTLE LONDON — Electoral division councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Jamaica · LITTLE LONDON / WESTMORELAND · municipal · Electoral division councillorJM-W-WESTMORELAND-LITTLE-LONDON

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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
LITTLE LONDON / WESTMORELAND
Next election
2028-02
Linked upcoming event
next-de2b96d57d6a67aaec046c9a
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

  • JLP52.2%
  • PNP46.5%
Results for event-9ae863c4781a31243c430dca
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S975fca3559/20241,23152.2%1Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S975fca3559/20241,09646.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP45.2%
  • PNP53.9%
Results for event-f27fe4752f4d181ff14a55be
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S375abb1313/201694545.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S375abb1313/20161,12753.9%1Recorded

2012-03-26

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • JLP28.9%
  • PNP70.0%
Results for event-84ff6c4cf5fdb94ea206fa06
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
JLPJLPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/201241228.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNPPNPjamaica/S60dfdaaaba/201299970%1Recorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

48.620–100 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=5.801461108723672, oldest_gap=41.601700921332395, previous_gap=8.78378378378379

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

7.29percentage 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=[[52.900730554361836,47.099269445638164,0],[45.608108108108105,54.391891891891895,0],[29.199149539333806,70.8008504606662,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

16.41percentage 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=[[52.900730554361836,47.099269445638164,0],[45.608108108108105,54.391891891891895,0],[29.199149539333806,70.8008504606662,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

11.85percentage 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=[[52.900730554361836,47.099269445638164,0],[45.608108108108105,54.391891891891895,0],[29.199149539333806,70.8008504606662,0]]

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