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POINT FORTIN — Municipal/regional council

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Trinidad and Tobago · POINT FORTIN · municipal · Municipal/regional councilTT-C-POINT-FORTIN

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Three ordinary council cycles, with the valid 2024 Lengua replacement completing its 2023 cycle. The 2016 national vote and ballot totals now reconcile. Councillor and alderman seats stay separate. Ward ballots overlap these corporation aggregates; do not sum votes across the two levels. Subsequent by-elections and current control remain to be verified.

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

Geography
POINT FORTIN
Next election
2027-08
Linked upcoming event
next-6ba97dadbe931a0117696f72
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-08 is expected (not formally called). Month precision — no calendar day supplied. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2023-08-14

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PNM65.6%
  • NTA19.5%
  • PEP7.0%
  • UNC3.7%
  • MSJ3.2%
  • Independent — FELIX, IRVIN SAMUEL IND.1.1%
Results for event-5076d780fcb721b8b04f56c7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20233,41565.6%10Recorded
NTAtrinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20231,01219.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PEPtrinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20233637%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20231913.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MSJtrinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20231643.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
Independent — FELIX, IRVIN SAMUEL IND.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023571.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-12-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PNM66.7%
  • UNC22.5%
  • MSJ10.8%
Results for event-f9b9084c71fbca02d3399a23
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/20193,95166.7%10Recorded
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/20191,33322.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MSJtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/201964210.8%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PNM78.5%
  • UNC14.6%
  • MSJ6.9%
Results for event-0de1ec709fc22440f03842f4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/20164,58878.5%10Recorded
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/201685414.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
MSJtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/20164026.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

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=46.193771626297575, oldest_gap=63.89459274469541, previous_gap=44.17819777252785

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

19.85percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Exact PNM and UNC labels, plus Other for all minor parties and independent candidates. Corporation and ward ballots overlap and are not summed across levels. Boundary changes and intervening ward events remain subject to the office 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=["PNM","UNC","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[65.6478277585544,3.6716647443291044,30.680507497116498],[66.67229159635505,22.494093823827203,10.833614579817752],[78.507871321013,14.61327857631759,6.878850102669404]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

11.84percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Exact PNM and UNC labels, plus Other for all minor parties and independent candidates. Corporation and ward ballots overlap and are not summed across levels. Boundary changes and intervening ward events remain subject to the office 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=["PNM","UNC","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[65.6478277585544,3.6716647443291044,30.680507497116498],[66.67229159635505,22.494093823827203,10.833614579817752],[78.507871321013,14.61327857631759,6.878850102669404]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

15.84percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Exact PNM and UNC labels, plus Other for all minor parties and independent candidates. Corporation and ward ballots overlap and are not summed across levels. Boundary changes and intervening ward events remain subject to the office 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=["PNM","UNC","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[65.6478277585544,3.6716647443291044,30.680507497116498],[66.67229159635505,22.494093823827203,10.833614579817752],[78.507871321013,14.61327857631759,6.878850102669404]]

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

  • other · open

    Resolved rejected-ballot OCR discrepancy: Five individually inspected total rows restore 43 rejected ballots; 361178 valid + 1082 rejected = 362260 official ballots.

Sources

Cite this record

Center for Digital Democracy. “POINT FORTIN — Municipal/regional council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/TT-C-POINT-FORTIN. Sources: trinidad-and-tobago--url-e06d066df6b1c4f85a3de4c1, trinidad-and-tobago--url-c6b46fcdadf702b8058e8dde, trinidad-and-tobago--url-f7e2ea4d318ed2fe90b34e7c, trinidad-and-tobago--S0063554cc2, trinidad-and-tobago--Sfed72d3252, trinidad-and-tobago--S2157f02080.