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MANUEL BENAVIDES — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · MANUEL BENAVIDES / CHIHUAHUA · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-8-42

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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
MANUEL BENAVIDES / CHIHUAHUA
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-df751b546f77e863769c5390
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

  • PVEM38.5%
  • MC36.1%
  • PT_MORENA17.7%
  • PAN_PRI_PRD2.3%
Results for event-a44e4b3cde4eeaca8ab0834d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PVEMmexico/S4a108762e5/202450638.5%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S4a108762e5/202447536.1%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENAmexico/S4a108762e5/202423317.7%UnknownRecorded
PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S4a108762e5/2024302.3%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRD38.4%
  • PT_MORENA_NACH37.5%
  • PVEM17.5%
  • PRI0.9%
  • PAN0.9%
  • MC0.1%
Results for event-3b37e30d8c6db48d46e398d3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRDmexico/S2fdc07cb50/202158738.4%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_NACHmexico/S2fdc07cb50/202157337.5%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S2fdc07cb50/202126817.5%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S2fdc07cb50/2021140.9%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/S2fdc07cb50/2021130.9%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S2fdc07cb50/202110.1%UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRI46.2%
  • PT_MORENA_ES26.1%
  • PRD23.0%
  • PAN_MC1.6%
Results for event-16a24f36f514ce86047ec51e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRImexico/Se9db77d142/201866646.2%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/Se9db77d142/201837626.1%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/Se9db77d142/201833223%UnknownRecorded
PAN_MCmexico/Se9db77d142/2018231.6%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

80.70–100 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=2.4919614147909996, oldest_gap=20.758768790264853, previous_gap=0.9615384615384599

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

60.38percentage 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: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,40.67524115755627,38.18327974276527,0,21.141479099678456],[0.8928571428571429,0.9615384615384616,40.315934065934066,0,18.406593406593405,0.06868131868131869,0,39.354395604395606],[0,47.67358625626342,23.76521116678597,0,0,0,0,28.561202576950606]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.71percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,40.67524115755627,38.18327974276527,0,21.141479099678456],[0.8928571428571429,0.9615384615384616,40.315934065934066,0,18.406593406593405,0.06868131868131869,0,39.354395604395606],[0,47.67358625626342,23.76521116678597,0,0,0,0,28.561202576950606]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

53.55percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,40.67524115755627,38.18327974276527,0,21.141479099678456],[0.8928571428571429,0.9615384615384616,40.315934065934066,0,18.406593406593405,0.06868131868131869,0,39.354395604395606],[0,47.67358625626342,23.76521116678597,0,0,0,0,28.561202576950606]]

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. “MANUEL BENAVIDES — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-8-42. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S4a108762e5, mexico--S2fdc07cb50, mexico--Se9db77d142.