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ASCENSION — Municipal government

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Mexico · ASCENSION / CHIHUAHUA · municipal · Municipal governmentMX-M-8-5

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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
ASCENSION / CHIHUAHUA
Next election
2027-06-06
Linked upcoming event
next-6a124a071831983f8acc8df9
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

  • PAN_PRI_PRD34.8%
  • PT_MORENA26.6%
  • MC19.7%
  • PVEM11.7%
  • PUEBLO0.6%
  • MRCH0.2%
Results for event-1a3bcb4b941669932fc9d28a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_PRI_PRDmexico/S6e10d5e39a/20243,43134.8%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENAmexico/S6e10d5e39a/20242,61726.6%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S6e10d5e39a/20241,93719.7%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S6e10d5e39a/20241,15611.7%UnknownRecorded
PUEBLOmexico/S6e10d5e39a/2024570.6%UnknownRecorded
MRCHmexico/S6e10d5e39a/2024170.2%UnknownRecorded

2021

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PRD28.8%
  • PAN24.5%
  • PT_MORENA_NACH18.6%
  • MC12.4%
  • PRI12.2%
Results for event-86956ca4b49eb35281b6316f
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PRDmexico/S55bb906c8d/20212,24128.8%UnknownRecorded
PANmexico/S55bb906c8d/20211,91024.5%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_NACHmexico/S55bb906c8d/20211,45118.6%UnknownRecorded
MCmexico/S55bb906c8d/202197012.4%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S55bb906c8d/202195312.2%UnknownRecorded

2018

Special · Legal certification not established · candidate marks

  • PAN_MC38.6%
  • PRI33.3%
  • PT_MORENA_ES20.8%
  • PRD1.0%
  • PVEM0.9%
  • PANAL0.4%
Results for event-05833e32a99ed1bb0e743169
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PAN_MCmexico/S7f29670c39/20183,45538.6%UnknownRecorded
PRImexico/S7f29670c39/20182,98533.3%UnknownRecorded
PT_MORENA_ESmexico/S7f29670c39/20181,86720.8%UnknownRecorded
PRDmexico/S7f29670c39/2018911%UnknownRecorded
PVEMmexico/S7f29670c39/2018810.9%UnknownRecorded
PANALmexico/S7f29670c39/2018350.4%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

64.140–100 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=8.83342376559957, oldest_gap=5.520319473807845, previous_gap=4.398671096345517

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

67.83percentage 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: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PAN","PRI","PRD","PT","PVEM","MC","MORENA","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,12.544763971785134,21.020075963103636,0,66.43516006511122],[25.38205980066445,12.664451827242525,29.780730897009967,0,0,12.890365448504983,0,19.282392026578073],[0,35.05990133897111,1.0688278130138595,0,0.9513742071881607,0,0,62.91989664082688]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.98percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,12.544763971785134,21.020075963103636,0,66.43516006511122],[25.38205980066445,12.664451827242525,29.780730897009967,0,0,12.890365448504983,0,19.282392026578073],[0,35.05990133897111,1.0688278130138595,0,0.9513742071881607,0,0,62.91989664082688]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

67.41percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,12.544763971785134,21.020075963103636,0,66.43516006511122],[25.38205980066445,12.664451827242525,29.780730897009967,0,0,12.890365448504983,0,19.282392026578073],[0,35.05990133897111,1.0688278130138595,0,0.9513742071881607,0,0,62.91989664082688]]

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. “ASCENSION — Municipal government.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/MX-M-8-5. Sources: mexico--url-3635e08ffbefd711526cbeea, mexico--S6e10d5e39a, mexico--S55bb906c8d, mexico--S7f29670c39.