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VALENZUELA / CORDILLERA — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Paraguay · VALENZUELA / CORDILLERA / CORDILLERA · municipal · MayorPY-03-037-M

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Municipality matched by department and name, with documented abbreviation/rename bridges. Historical numeric district codes are not stable. This is an identity bridge, not proof of unchanged boundaries. Replacement archive runs through November 2025; later events/current control require verification.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
VALENZUELA / CORDILLERA / CORDILLERA
Next election
2026-10-04
Linked upcoming event
next-407c955636aba4d02ca85dec
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2026-10-04 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2021-10-10

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO53.0%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO47.0%
Results for event-9799772a87e9e77bc62daae3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MIRTHA ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ YEGROSPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20212,38853%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · LUIS PABLO CANTERO VAZQUEZANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20212,11547%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-11-15

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO52.0%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO48.0%
Results for event-65efdab875f2027b5e411466
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MIRTHA ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ YEGROSPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20151,87452%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · CAYETANO AVALOS ZAYASANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20151,72748%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2010-11-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO49.4%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO46.8%
  • UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS3.8%
Results for event-b0fe3542ade6d0e82848267c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MIRTHA ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ YEGROSPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101,43649.4%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · ELADIO GALEANO LUGOANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101,36146.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS · RAFAEL GONZALEZ FLECHAUNACEparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101113.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

Other events (not selected cycles)

  • 1996-11-17 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 2001-11-18 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 2006-11-19 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

74.40–100 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=6.062624916722186, oldest_gap=2.579092159559835, previous_gap=4.0821993890586015

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

0.99percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Standalone ANR, PLRA, PEN, PPQ, UNACE and Frente Guasu; all other lists and mixed alliances in Other. No coalition vote is split among constituent parties. 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=["ANR","PLRA","PEN","PPQ","UNACE","Frente Guasu","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[46.96868754163891,53.03131245836109,0,0,0,0,0],[47.9589003054707,52.0410996945293,0,0,0,0,0],[46.8019257221458,49.38101788170564,0,0,3.8170563961485557,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

3.82percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Standalone ANR, PLRA, PEN, PPQ, UNACE and Frente Guasu; all other lists and mixed alliances in Other. No coalition vote is split among constituent parties. 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=["ANR","PLRA","PEN","PPQ","UNACE","Frente Guasu","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[46.96868754163891,53.03131245836109,0,0,0,0,0],[47.9589003054707,52.0410996945293,0,0,0,0,0],[46.8019257221458,49.38101788170564,0,0,3.8170563961485557,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

2.4percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Standalone ANR, PLRA, PEN, PPQ, UNACE and Frente Guasu; all other lists and mixed alliances in Other. No coalition vote is split among constituent parties. 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=["ANR","PLRA","PEN","PPQ","UNACE","Frente Guasu","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[46.96868754163891,53.03131245836109,0,0,0,0,0],[47.9589003054707,52.0410996945293,0,0,0,0,0],[46.8019257221458,49.38101788170564,0,0,3.8170563961485557,0,0]]

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

Municipality matched by department and name, with documented abbreviation/rename bridges. Historical numeric district codes are not stable. This is an identity bridge, not proof of unchanged boundaries. Replacement archive runs through November 2025; later events/current control require verification. Replacement elections sometimes contain only winner/seat evidence. New municipalities, boundary/party continuity and dated control remain incomplete. The separate ordinary-election baseline helps historical comparison but does not fill replacement losing-vote gaps.

    Sources

    Cite this record

    Center for Digital Democracy. “VALENZUELA / CORDILLERA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/PY-03-037-M. Sources: paraguay--url-7428974d1a7032fc28d114b3, paraguay--S82789e1ede, paraguay--Sebfa7a567d.