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Office briefing

RIO GRANDE — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · RIO GRANDE / ZACATECAS · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-32-39

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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
RIO GRANDE / ZACATECAS
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-e62e639e7915e6039da17bcd
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

  • PRI28.4%
  • MORENA27.6%
  • PT18.1%
  • PRD12.7%
  • PAN2.2%
  • MC1.8%
  • NAZ1.3%
  • PVEM1.1%
  • RPZ1.0%
  • MAZ0.2%
  • PES0.1%
Results for event-e343550fef96e76638d6f62f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRImexico/S0927ed4d65/20248,43428.4%UnknownRecorded
MORENAmexico/S0927ed4d65/20248,21227.6%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/S0927ed4d65/20245,37718.1%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/S0927ed4d65/20243,78512.7%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/S0927ed4d65/20246522.2%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S0927ed4d65/20245241.8%UnknownRecorded
NAZmexico/S0927ed4d65/20243901.3%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S0927ed4d65/20243281.1%UnknownRecorded
RPZmexico/S0927ed4d65/20243041%UnknownRecorded
MAZmexico/S0927ed4d65/2024640.2%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S0927ed4d65/2024420.1%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRD26.7%
  • MORENA25.2%
  • PT18.4%
  • PRI13.5%
  • PAN6.5%
  • PVEM2.2%
  • PANALZ1.3%
  • FXM1.0%
  • PAZ0.9%
  • PES0.5%
  • MC0.0%
  • FAM0.0%
  • MDZ0.0%
  • PP0.0%
  • RSP0.0%
Results for event-81531a3a6fe744c27bb5963b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRDmexico/Sabb434df08/20217,02326.7%UnknownRecorded
MORENAmexico/Sabb434df08/20216,62625.2%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/Sabb434df08/20214,84718.4%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/Sabb434df08/20213,54013.5%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/Sabb434df08/20211,7186.5%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/Sabb434df08/20215722.2%UnknownRecorded
PANALZmexico/Sabb434df08/20213461.3%UnknownRecorded
FXMmexico/Sabb434df08/20212511%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/Sabb434df08/20212440.9%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/Sabb434df08/20211440.5%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/Sabb434df08/202130%UnknownRecorded
FAMmexico/Sabb434df08/202130%UnknownRecorded
MDZmexico/Sabb434df08/202110%UnknownRecorded
PPmexico/Sabb434df08/202110%UnknownRecorded
RSPmexico/Sabb434df08/202110%UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN_PRD_MC39.0%
  • PT_MORENA_ES19.7%
  • PRI19.3%
  • PVEM10.1%
  • PANAL3.4%
  • MDZ2.1%
  • PAZ1.1%
  • CAND_IND30.7%
  • PP0.3%
Results for event-142a85490da8594b940bf668
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_PRD_MCmexico/S524a6f45ed/201811,05839%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/S524a6f45ed/20185,57919.7%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S524a6f45ed/20185,48219.3%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S524a6f45ed/20182,85810.1%UnknownRecorded
PANALmexico/S524a6f45ed/20189663.4%UnknownRecorded
MDZmexico/S524a6f45ed/20185852.1%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/S524a6f45ed/20183151.1%UnknownRecorded
CAND_IND3mexico/S524a6f45ed/20181900.7%UnknownRecorded
PPmexico/S524a6f45ed/2018990.3%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

85.180–100 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=0.7896983494593073, oldest_gap=20.193867020492405, previous_gap=1.5679304897314381

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

20.92percentage 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=[[2.319294251565168,30.001422879908937,13.464001138303928,19.127063175867956,1.1667615253272623,1.8639726807057484,29.21172453044963,2.8457598178713717],[6.785150078988941,13.981042654028435,27.73696682464455,19.14296998420221,2.259083728278041,0.011848341232227487,26.169036334913113,3.913902053712481],[0,20.204924074893114,0,0,10.533687159074155,0,0,69.26138876603274]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

79.85percentage 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=[[2.319294251565168,30.001422879908937,13.464001138303928,19.127063175867956,1.1667615253272623,1.8639726807057484,29.21172453044963,2.8457598178713717],[6.785150078988941,13.981042654028435,27.73696682464455,19.14296998420221,2.259083728278041,0.011848341232227487,26.169036334913113,3.913902053712481],[0,20.204924074893114,0,0,10.533687159074155,0,0,69.26138876603274]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.38percentage 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=[[2.319294251565168,30.001422879908937,13.464001138303928,19.127063175867956,1.1667615253272623,1.8639726807057484,29.21172453044963,2.8457598178713717],[6.785150078988941,13.981042654028435,27.73696682464455,19.14296998420221,2.259083728278041,0.011848341232227487,26.169036334913113,3.913902053712481],[0,20.204924074893114,0,0,10.533687159074155,0,0,69.26138876603274]]

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. “RIO GRANDE — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-32-39. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S0927ed4d65, mexico--Sabb434df08, mexico--S524a6f45ed.