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Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Office briefing

MORNE COCO/ALYCE GLEN — Municipal electoral district councillor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Trinidad and Tobago · MORNE COCO/ALYCE GLEN / DIEGO MARTIN · other · Municipal electoral district councillorTT-W-DIEGO-MARTIN-MORNE-COCO-ALYCE-GLEN

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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
MORNE COCO/ALYCE GLEN / DIEGO MARTIN
Next election
2027-08
Linked upcoming event
next-6a2ea0d917576e3ba392482d
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

  • NTA41.3%
  • PNM58.7%
Results for event-b04fc69a5fd748be3d2f45e4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
NTA · CUMMINGS, KERON NATHANIEL N.T.A.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/202377141.3%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNM · RICHARDS-COLE, LISA P.N.M.trinidad-and-tobago/S0063554cc2/20231,09858.7%1Recorded

2019-12-02

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • MND4.9%
  • PNM69.6%
  • UNC25.5%
Results for event-c9659356350977d8306dc02d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MNDtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/20191054.9%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/20191,50269.6%1Recorded
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/Sfed72d3252/201955025.5%0 (recorded zero)Recorded

2016-11-28

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · unknown

  • UNC13.2%
  • PNM86.8%
Results for event-ca664ac2291bfecb37e612eb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNCtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/201623613.2%0 (recorded zero)Recorded
PNMtrinidad-and-tobago/S2157f02080/20161,55786.8%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=17.495987158908505, oldest_gap=73.67540435025097, previous_gap=44.13537320352341

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.38percentage 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=[[58.74799357945425,0,41.25200642054575],[69.63375057950857,25.498377375985164,4.867872044506258],[86.83770217512549,13.162297824874512,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

17.2percentage 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=[[58.74799357945425,0,41.25200642054575],[69.63375057950857,25.498377375985164,4.867872044506258],[86.83770217512549,13.162297824874512,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

26.79percentage 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=[[58.74799357945425,0,41.25200642054575],[69.63375057950857,25.498377375985164,4.867872044506258],[86.83770217512549,13.162297824874512,0]]

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. “MORNE COCO/ALYCE GLEN — Municipal electoral district councillor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/TT-W-DIEGO-MARTIN-MORNE-COCO-ALYCE-GLEN. 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.