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Office briefing

MALABAR NORTH — Municipal electoral district councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Trinidad and Tobago · MALABAR NORTH / ARIMA · other · Municipal electoral district councillorTT-W-ARIMA-MALABAR-NORTH

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Individual single-member ward record. The same votes also appear in its corporation aggregate. Exact normalized names are joined within the same corporation; name matches alone do not certify unchanged boundaries. Older candidate names and the complete intervening-event sequence remain under review.

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

Geography
MALABAR NORTH / ARIMA
Next election
2027-08
Linked upcoming event
next-42dc437e222077acff500570
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 · unknown

  • UNC39.5%
  • PNM57.9%
  • PEP2.6%
Results for event-7f0af0113ee839ef41c67251
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNC · DE GANNES, LYNDON ANTHONY U.N.C.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/202353739.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNM · SHAFFIE- RAMCHARAN, LINETTE P.N.M.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/202378857.9%1Recorded
PEP · SHOCKNESS, WAYNE LESLIE P.E.P.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/2023362.6%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2019-12-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNC34.7%
  • PNM65.3%
Results for event-5f8b60d7962ecdb14faf8f91
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/201949134.7%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/201992365.3%1Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNC30.1%
  • PNM69.9%
Results for event-c61e8c4ff05e288689313562
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/201641530.1%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/201696469.9%1Recorded

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=18.44232182218957, oldest_gap=39.811457577955046, previous_gap=30.55162659123056

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

7.38percentage 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=[[57.89860396767083,39.45628214548126,2.645113886847906],[65.27581329561528,34.72418670438472,0],[69.90572878897753,30.09427121102248,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

4.63percentage 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=[[57.89860396767083,39.45628214548126,2.645113886847906],[65.27581329561528,34.72418670438472,0],[69.90572878897753,30.09427121102248,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

6percentage 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=[[57.89860396767083,39.45628214548126,2.645113886847906],[65.27581329561528,34.72418670438472,0],[69.90572878897753,30.09427121102248,0]]

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

  • 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. “MALABAR NORTH — Municipal electoral district councillor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/TT-W-ARIMA-MALABAR-NORTH. 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.