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BENITO JUAREZ — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · BENITO JUAREZ / SONORA · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-26-71

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INE result distributions kept separate. Certified seats, supplementary elections, coalition and boundary audit remain.

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

Geography
BENITO JUAREZ / SONORA
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-d4d6c9b086e0b7f0469ae928
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-06-06 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2024

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MORENA28.4%
  • PES26.2%
  • PS15.9%
  • PRI12.6%
  • MC5.8%
  • PT5.3%
  • PVEM0.6%
  • PAN0.3%
  • PRD0.3%
Results for event-2a7f693a45110f01a6755ec3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MORENAmexico/Sc5a8869a52/20242,80828.4%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/Sc5a8869a52/20242,58626.2%UnknownRecorded
PSmexico/Sc5a8869a52/20241,57115.9%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/Sc5a8869a52/20241,24912.6%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/Sc5a8869a52/20245775.8%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/Sc5a8869a52/20245225.3%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/Sc5a8869a52/2024560.6%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/Sc5a8869a52/2024330.3%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/Sc5a8869a52/2024270.3%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MORENA38.2%
  • CAND_COM_PAN_PRI_PRD33.3%
  • PES13.8%
  • PVEM8.6%
  • PT2.1%
  • MC0.8%
  • FXM0.4%
Results for event-85a9d1886acad5e7e5613ed5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MORENAmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/20213,32638.2%UnknownRecorded
CAND_COM_PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/20212,90133.3%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/20211,19813.8%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/20217518.6%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/20211812.1%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/2021730.8%UnknownRecorded
FXMmexico/S57ea0c6ce6/2021390.4%UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PT_MORENA_ES44.2%
  • PRI_PVEM_PANAL42.9%
  • PAN_PRD5.4%
  • MC5.1%
  • MAS0.1%
Results for event-c59c273a0f923f78ffd7f225
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/S7eef146868/20184,07144.2%UnknownRecorded
PRI_PVEM_PANALmexico/S7eef146868/20183,95142.9%UnknownRecorded
PAN_PRDmexico/S7eef146868/20185015.4%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S7eef146868/20184675.1%UnknownRecorded
MASmexico/S7eef146868/2018130.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

84.740–100 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=2.3544384346166076, oldest_gap=1.3328890369876731, previous_gap=5.018302042744125

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

22.54percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Seven exact standalone INE party labels. Joint coalition combinations, independents and other parties remain Other, without allocating coalition votes. This coarse grouped comparison can conceal coalition-member shifts and requires the stated geographic/event review. 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=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0.3499840916321985,13.246367589352,0.28635062042634424,5.536111994909322,0.5939123979213066,6.11941881429632,29.780464524339802,44.087389967122704],[0,0,0,2.1372062817333806,8.867634903766678,0.8619671744007557,39.27264139803991,48.860550242059276],[0,0,0,0,0,5.187159835610352,0,94.81284016438964]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.28percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Seven exact standalone INE party labels. Joint coalition combinations, independents and other parties remain Other, without allocating coalition votes. This coarse grouped comparison can conceal coalition-member shifts and requires the stated geographic/event review. 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=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0.3499840916321985,13.246367589352,0.28635062042634424,5.536111994909322,0.5939123979213066,6.11941881429632,29.780464524339802,44.087389967122704],[0,0,0,2.1372062817333806,8.867634903766678,0.8619671744007557,39.27264139803991,48.860550242059276],[0,0,0,0,0,5.187159835610352,0,94.81284016438964]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.41percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Seven exact standalone INE party labels. Joint coalition combinations, independents and other parties remain Other, without allocating coalition votes. This coarse grouped comparison can conceal coalition-member shifts and requires the stated geographic/event review. 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=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0.3499840916321985,13.246367589352,0.28635062042634424,5.536111994909322,0.5939123979213066,6.11941881429632,29.780464524339802,44.087389967122704],[0,0,0,2.1372062817333806,8.867634903766678,0.8619671744007557,39.27264139803991,48.860550242059276],[0,0,0,0,0,5.187159835610352,0,94.81284016438964]]

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. “BENITO JUAREZ — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-26-71. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--Sc5a8869a52, mexico--S57ea0c6ce6, mexico--S7eef146868.