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Office briefing

VILLA GARCIA — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · VILLA GARCIA / ZACATECAS · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-32-52

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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
VILLA GARCIA / ZACATECAS
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-94d8f3db4749743539afc9ac
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

  • MC39.4%
  • MORENA31.2%
  • PAN_PRI_PRD23.0%
  • PVEM0.8%
  • PT0.6%
  • RPZ0.5%
  • NAZ0.4%
  • PES0.0%
  • FMZ0.0%
Results for event-765b7e0514702e28a9363e3b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MCmexico/S43d81f5635/20243,66639.4%UnknownRecorded
MORENAmexico/S43d81f5635/20242,90231.2%UnknownRecorded
PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S43d81f5635/20242,14623%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S43d81f5635/2024700.8%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/S43d81f5635/2024540.6%UnknownRecorded
RPZmexico/S43d81f5635/2024510.5%UnknownRecorded
NAZmexico/S43d81f5635/2024330.4%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S43d81f5635/202410%UnknownRecorded
FMZmexico/S43d81f5635/202410%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN_PRI_PRD26.0%
  • FXM22.4%
  • PT_PVEM_MORENA_PANALZ22.2%
  • MC19.5%
  • PES0.5%
  • RSP0.4%
  • PAZ0.2%
  • PP0.0%
Results for event-3013d178d94d7440081f5cea
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S094162249d/20212,35726%UnknownRecorded
FXMmexico/S094162249d/20212,03522.4%UnknownRecorded
PT_PVEM_MORENA_PANALZmexico/S094162249d/20212,01222.2%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S094162249d/20211,77119.5%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S094162249d/2021450.5%UnknownRecorded
RSPmexico/S094162249d/2021340.4%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/S094162249d/2021140.2%UnknownRecorded
PPmexico/S094162249d/20210 (recorded zero)0% (recorded zero)UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRI29.7%
  • PAN_PRD_MC25.4%
  • PT_MORENA_ES24.9%
  • PVEM6.8%
  • PAZ3.7%
  • PANAL1.0%
  • PP0.1%
  • MDZ0.0%
Results for event-a3abe17a52c48ad6bab05815
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRImexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20182,92329.7%UnknownRecorded
PAN_PRD_MCmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20182,49725.4%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20182,45424.9%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20186706.8%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20183633.7%UnknownRecorded
PANALmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/20181011%UnknownRecorded
PPmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/2018130.1%UnknownRecorded
MDZmexico/Sb8caeaf1c0/201810%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Withheld

Unknown0–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Comparison unavailable · INE result distributions kept separate. Certified seats, supplementary elections, coalition and boundary audit remain.

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=8.561183325862842, oldest_gap=null, previous_gap=3.894533139816158

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

53.57percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0.6051098162259076,0.7844016136261766,41.08023307933662,32.51904975347378,25.011205737337516],[0,0,0,0,0,21.419932268988873,0,78.58006773101113],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0.6051098162259076,0.7844016136261766,41.08023307933662,32.51904975347378,25.011205737337516],[0,0,0,0,0,21.419932268988873,0,78.58006773101113],null]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0,0,0,0.6051098162259076,0.7844016136261766,41.08023307933662,32.51904975347378,25.011205737337516],[0,0,0,0,0,21.419932268988873,0,78.58006773101113],null]

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

  • other · open

    Reconciliation required: {"id": "MX-M-32-52", "year": 2018, "issue": "Reconciliation required", "total_delta": -531.0, "duplicate_actor": false, "segments": 1}

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “VILLA GARCIA — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-32-52. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S43d81f5635, mexico--S094162249d, mexico--Sb8caeaf1c0.