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CANDELA — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · CANDELA / COAHUILA · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-5-5

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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
CANDELA / COAHUILA
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-15780ce5a30a641a7632e7d5
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

  • PRI_PRD_UDC52.7%
  • MC38.1%
  • PT_MORENA5.1%
  • PAN1.1%
Results for event-c383a74e9f30f29d53035897
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRI_PRD_UDCmexico/S9d4bfca160/202475452.7%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S9d4bfca160/202454538.1%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENAmexico/S9d4bfca160/2024735.1%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/S9d4bfca160/2024161.1%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN52.0%
  • PRI_PRD39.0%
  • MORENA7.8%
Results for event-3813cc12daf5fac3c20be10e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PANmexico/Sb855f9fda6/202175152%UnknownRecorded
PRI_PRDmexico/Sb855f9fda6/202156339%UnknownRecorded
MORENAmexico/Sb855f9fda6/20211137.8%UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRI_PVEM_PANAL56.3%
  • PAN_UDC_MC41.5%
Results for event-e1de4db66b7f71509b1f36e9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRI_PVEM_PANALmexico/Scfa3b8edb3/201878356.3%UnknownRecorded
PAN_UDC_MCmexico/Scfa3b8edb3/201857741.5%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

27.490–100 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=15.05763688760807, oldest_gap=15.147058823529406, previous_gap=13.174491941135251

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

59.39percentage 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=[[1.1527377521613833,0,0,0,0,39.26512968299712,0,59.5821325648415],[52.62789067974772,0,0,0,0,0,7.918710581639804,39.45339873861247],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=[[1.1527377521613833,0,0,0,0,39.26512968299712,0,59.5821325648415],[52.62789067974772,0,0,0,0,0,7.918710581639804,39.45339873861247],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=[[1.1527377521613833,0,0,0,0,39.26512968299712,0,59.5821325648415],[52.62789067974772,0,0,0,0,0,7.918710581639804,39.45339873861247],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

No open research issues attached to this office.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “CANDELA — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-5-5. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S9d4bfca160, mexico--Sb855f9fda6, mexico--Scfa3b8edb3.