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Office briefing

ITAPUA POTY / ITAPUA — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Paraguay · ITAPUA POTY / ITAPUA / ITAPUA · municipal · MayorPY-07-027-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
ITAPUA POTY / ITAPUA / ITAPUA
Next election
2026-10-04
Linked upcoming event
next-a05d094c1baebeb1949670b7
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 AUTENTICO56.7%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO43.3%
Results for event-8d677a30c63c33493d814ca6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MILCIADES RONALDO BENITEZ DIAZPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20213,35856.7%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · ARNULFO BENITEZ MIERESANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20212,56943.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2015-11-15

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO43.5%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO38.6%
  • CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU17.9%
Results for event-457f8d3b365d39acb12bf3e0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MILCIADES RONALDO BENITEZ DIAZPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20152,17443.5%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · LUCY BEATRIZ LARSSEN DE BINDERANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20151,92938.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
CONCERTACION NACIONAL FRENTE GUASU · CARLOS ANTONIO DUETTE FIGUEREDOFGparaguay/S82789e1ede/201589317.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2010-11-07

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · valid votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO46.4%
  • PARTIDO COLORADO30.9%
  • PARTIDO PATRIA QUERIDA15.9%
  • PARTIDO POPULAR TEKOJOJA4.4%
  • UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS2.4%
Results for event-9b56db3a1a97f8fb998c6412
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL RADICAL AUTENTICO · MAURO RAMON ESCALANTE GODOYPLRAparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101,79046.4%1Recorded
PARTIDO COLORADO · DAVID BENJAMIN FRANZ KUGLERANRparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101,19030.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO PATRIA QUERIDA · RICARDO ARMIN SCHOLLER SCHNEIDERPPQparaguay/S82789e1ede/201061315.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PARTIDO POPULAR TEKOJOJA · BASILIO CELESTINO IBARRA VILLALBAPPTparaguay/S82789e1ede/20101704.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNION NACIONAL DE CIUDADANOS ETICOS · NERI RAMON GAONA CACERESUNACEparaguay/S82789e1ede/2010942.4%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

Other events (not selected cycles)

  • 2001-11-18 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 2006-11-19 · Ordinary · Legal certification not established
  • 1997-10-05 · Repeated / replacement · Legal certification not established
  • 2002-09-29 · Repeated / replacement · Legal certification not established

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

44.930–100 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=13.311962206850012, oldest_gap=15.556131708581802, previous_gap=4.903923138510812

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

17.87percentage 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=[[43.344018896574994,56.655981103425006,0,0,0,0,0],[38.61088871096877,43.514811849479585,0,0,0,17.874299439551642,0],[30.852994555353902,46.409126263935704,0,15.893181228934404,2.4371273010111487,0,4.407570650764844]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.63percentage 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=[[43.344018896574994,56.655981103425006,0,0,0,0,0],[38.61088871096877,43.514811849479585,0,0,0,17.874299439551642,0],[30.852994555353902,46.409126263935704,0,15.893181228934404,2.4371273010111487,0,4.407570650764844]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

21.75percentage 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=[[43.344018896574994,56.655981103425006,0,0,0,0,0],[38.61088871096877,43.514811849479585,0,0,0,17.874299439551642,0],[30.852994555353902,46.409126263935704,0,15.893181228934404,2.4371273010111487,0,4.407570650764844]]

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. “ITAPUA POTY / ITAPUA — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/PY-07-027-M. Sources: paraguay--url-7428974d1a7032fc28d114b3, paraguay--S82789e1ede, paraguay--Sebfa7a567d.