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Office briefing

VILLANUEVA — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · VILLANUEVA / ZACATECAS · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-32-55

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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
VILLANUEVA / ZACATECAS
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-f319eb223138ff935841e0fa
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

  • PVEM_MORENA47.6%
  • PRD37.3%
  • PAN4.4%
  • PT_NAZ_PES2.5%
  • PRI1.5%
  • FMZ1.1%
  • MC1.0%
  • RPZ0.1%
Results for event-b18b9751073dfaa0f8806178
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PVEM_MORENAmexico/S69d67cd040/20248,03347.6%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/S69d67cd040/20246,29137.3%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/S69d67cd040/20247454.4%UnknownRecorded
PT_NAZ_PESmexico/S69d67cd040/20244292.5%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S69d67cd040/20242471.5%UnknownRecorded
FMZmexico/S69d67cd040/20241861.1%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S69d67cd040/20241731%UnknownRecorded
RPZmexico/S69d67cd040/2024200.1%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • MORENA47.9%
  • PAN_PRI_PRD39.8%
  • PES3.6%
  • PANALZ2.6%
  • PT0.9%
  • PVEM0.6%
  • FXM0.6%
  • MC0.6%
  • PAZ0.5%
  • FAM0.2%
  • PP0.0%
Results for event-b9cbf7c528c835f6855eb8ec
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MORENAmexico/S559aecab6e/20217,95247.9%UnknownRecorded
PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S559aecab6e/20216,60639.8%UnknownRecorded
PESmexico/S559aecab6e/20215913.6%UnknownRecorded
PANALZmexico/S559aecab6e/20214272.6%UnknownRecorded
PTmexico/S559aecab6e/20211420.9%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S559aecab6e/20211060.6%UnknownRecorded
FXMmexico/S559aecab6e/2021980.6%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S559aecab6e/2021920.6%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/S559aecab6e/2021800.5%UnknownRecorded
FAMmexico/S559aecab6e/2021260.2%UnknownRecorded
PPmexico/S559aecab6e/20210 (recorded zero)0% (recorded zero)UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN_PRD_MC41.5%
  • PRI26.9%
  • PT_MORENA_ES23.2%
  • PANAL4.0%
  • PVEM0.7%
  • PAZ0.2%
  • MDZ0.1%
Results for event-67f4061259548a57a10e8da0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_PRD_MCmexico/S5eb976083a/20186,96341.5%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S5eb976083a/20184,52126.9%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/S5eb976083a/20183,90223.2%UnknownRecorded
PANALmexico/S5eb976083a/20186644%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S5eb976083a/20181220.7%UnknownRecorded
PAZmexico/S5eb976083a/2018360.2%UnknownRecorded
MDZmexico/S5eb976083a/2018200.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

47.540–100 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=10.80377077648226, oldest_gap=15.048065072713829, previous_gap=8.349875930521094

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.87percentage 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=[[4.620441577772265,1.5318779459191267,39.01637310840982,0,0,1.072934755643761,0,53.75837261225502],[0,0,0,0.8808933002481389,0.6575682382133995,0.5707196029776674,49.33002481389578,48.56079404466501],[0,27.859255607591816,0,0,0.7517870347547448,0,0,71.38895735765344]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.78percentage 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=[[4.620441577772265,1.5318779459191267,39.01637310840982,0,0,1.072934755643761,0,53.75837261225502],[0,0,0,0.8808933002481389,0.6575682382133995,0.5707196029776674,49.33002481389578,48.56079404466501],[0,27.859255607591816,0,0,0.7517870347547448,0,0,71.38895735765344]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.83percentage 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=[[4.620441577772265,1.5318779459191267,39.01637310840982,0,0,1.072934755643761,0,53.75837261225502],[0,0,0,0.8808933002481389,0.6575682382133995,0.5707196029776674,49.33002481389578,48.56079404466501],[0,27.859255607591816,0,0,0.7517870347547448,0,0,71.38895735765344]]

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. “VILLANUEVA — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-32-55. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S69d67cd040, mexico--S559aecab6e, mexico--S5eb976083a.