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Office briefing

INDEPENDENCIA / GUAIRA — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Paraguay · INDEPENDENCIA / GUAIRA / GUAIRA · municipal · MayorPY-04-013-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
INDEPENDENCIA / GUAIRA / GUAIRA
Next election
2026-10-04
Linked upcoming event
next-b9979e904a15a5c7d347dc5d
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 COLORADO60.8%
  • ALIANZA INDEPENDENCIA PYAHU31.0%
  • PARTIDO ENCUENTRO NACIONAL7.7%
  • CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU0.6%
Results for event-e62593f7e5ed4d59a2593d09
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLORADO · JOSE ANTONIO RESQUIN ACOSTAANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20215,73560.8%1Recorded
ALIANZA INDEPENDENCIA PYAHU · NELSON BENITEZ LOPEZAIPparaguay/S82789e1ede/20212,91831%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO ENCUENTRO NACIONAL · EVA MAGDALENA CRISTALDO RESQUINPENparaguay/S82789e1ede/20217227.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU · ROSA ELENA SANTA CRUZ ADORNOCNFGparaguay/S82789e1ede/2021520.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-11-15

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO COLORADO51.8%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO35.5%
  • CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU11.8%
  • PARTIDO UNACE0.6%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO DE LA A0.3%
Results for event-116792ec49fac9a1fb4253fb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLORADO · FRANCISCO ARNALDO CHAVEZ GONZALEZANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20153,44151.8%1Recorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · VICTOR MANUEL FONSECA LEGALPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20152,36235.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU · MARCOS MIGUEL DOLDAN VAZQUEZFGparaguay/S82789e1ede/201578311.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO UNACE · ROBERTO MANUEL CUBAS CACERESUNACEparaguay/S82789e1ede/2015410.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO DE LA A · RUBEN BARRETO GONZALEZMDAparaguay/S82789e1ede/2015210.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2010-11-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO COLORADO52.5%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO34.5%
  • UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS9.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO 20 DE ABRIL3.3%
Results for event-82c29bc28920e20f90ba0c0b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLORADO · JOSE ELIGIO CHAVEZ SILVEROANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20103,51852.5%1Recorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · ARIEL PERFECTO FONSECA LEGALPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20102,31034.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS · ERWIN VOGEL TILLMANNUNACEparaguay/S82789e1ede/20106599.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MOVIMIENTO 20 DE ABRIL · NIMIA BEATRIZ GONZALEZ DE OVIEDOM20Aparaguay/S82789e1ede/20102183.3%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

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=29.882253102789857, oldest_gap=18.01640566741238, previous_gap=16.230445246690728

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.37percentage 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=[[60.83589689190622,0,7.658852232947916,0,0,0.5516070860294897,30.953643789116366],[51.75992779783393,35.529482551143204,0,0,0.6167268351383874,11.777978339350181,0.315884476534296],[52.468307233407906,34.45190156599553,0,0,9.82848620432513,0,3.2513049962714393]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

12.86percentage 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=[[60.83589689190622,0,7.658852232947916,0,0,0.5516070860294897,30.953643789116366],[51.75992779783393,35.529482551143204,0,0,0.6167268351383874,11.777978339350181,0.315884476534296],[52.468307233407906,34.45190156599553,0,0,9.82848620432513,0,3.2513049962714393]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

30.11percentage 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=[[60.83589689190622,0,7.658852232947916,0,0,0.5516070860294897,30.953643789116366],[51.75992779783393,35.529482551143204,0,0,0.6167268351383874,11.777978339350181,0.315884476534296],[52.468307233407906,34.45190156599553,0,0,9.82848620432513,0,3.2513049962714393]]

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. “INDEPENDENCIA / GUAIRA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/PY-04-013-M. Sources: paraguay--url-7428974d1a7032fc28d114b3, paraguay--S82789e1ede, paraguay--Sebfa7a567d.