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SAN FERNANDO — Municipal/regional council
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Trinidad and Tobago · SAN FERNANDO · municipal · Municipal/regional councilTT-C-SAN-FERNANDO
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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
- SAN FERNANDO
- Next election
- 2027-08
- Linked upcoming event
- next-b4ff8228fa6718c26b2de785
- 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
- PNM53.8%
- UNC44.9%
- Independent — ELLIOTT, DIXIE-ANN IND.0.8%
- PEP0.3%
- TNP0.3%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNM | trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023 | 9,276 | 53.8% | 7 | Recorded |
| UNC | trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023 | 7,739 | 44.9% | 6 | Recorded |
| Independent — ELLIOTT, DIXIE-ANN IND. | trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023 | 140 | 0.8% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| PEP | trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023 | 50 | 0.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| TNP | trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023 | 45 | 0.3% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2019-12-02
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PNM57.1%
- UNC40.6%
- MSJ2.1%
- COP0.1%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNM | trinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/2019 | 10,241 | 57.1% | 8 | Recorded |
| UNC | trinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/2019 | 7,293 | 40.6% | 5 | Recorded |
| MSJ | trinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/2019 | 381 | 2.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
| COP | trinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/2019 | 26 | 0.1% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
2016-11-28
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PNM65.6%
- UNC33.8%
- COP0.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PNM | trinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/2016 | 10,538 | 65.6% | 12 | Recorded |
| UNC | trinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/2016 | 5,438 | 33.8% | 1 | Recorded |
| COP | trinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/2016 | 90 | 0.6% | 0 (recorded zero) | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
WithheldUnknown0–100 historical closeness
Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete
Comparison status: Comparison unavailable · 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.
Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=8.91014492753623, oldest_gap=null, previous_gap=16.431637032495402
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility4.21percentage 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=[[53.77391304347826,44.86376811594203,1.3623188405797102],[57.081545064377686,40.64990803188228,2.2685469037400368],null]
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PNM","UNC","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[53.77391304347826,44.86376811594203,1.3623188405797102],[57.081545064377686,40.64990803188228,2.2685469037400368],null]
pedersen volatility
Withheld volatilityUnknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["PNM","UNC","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[53.77391304347826,44.86376811594203,1.3623188405797102],[57.081545064377686,40.64990803188228,2.2685469037400368],null]
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
- Trinidad and Tobago: https://ebctt.com/wp-content/uploads/EBC-Local-Government-Elections-Report-2023.pdf · rights unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago: https://ebctt.com/wp-content/uploads/Report-of-the-Elections-and-Boundaries-Commission-on-the-Local-Government-Elections-held-on-Monday-December-2-2019.pdf · rights unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago: http://www.ebctt.com/wp-content/uploads/Final-Report-Local-Govt-Elections-2016.pdf · rights unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago: tt_reports_EBC-Local-Government-Elections-Report-2023.pdf · rights unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago: tt_reports_Report-of-the-Elections-and-Boundaries-Commission-on-the-Local-Government-Elections-held-on-Monday-December-2-2019.pdf · rights unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago: tt_2016.pdf · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “SAN FERNANDO — Municipal/regional council.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/TT-C-SAN-FERNANDO. 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.