Javier Degollado Gonzalez, head of the Institutional Revolutionary Party-Mexico Green Ecologist Coalition (PRI-PVEM) election slate, has been declared the winner in a tight race for mayor (presidente municipal) of Chapala.
Degollado was not named mayor-elect until the final computation of the vote count finished Wednesday, June 10 at around 2:30 p.m. The official figures showed him racking up 35.76 percent of the vote, with 7,372 ballots cast in his favor. 
Nonetheless, a throng of PRI-PVEM supporters began celebrating victory barely four hours after the polls closed Sunday evening, gathering to party at the Chapala waterfront as ballot boxes started to trickle into the office of the Municipal Election Council. In the final count, Citizen’s Movement (MC) opponent Moises Anaya Aguilar ran a close second, registering 6,715 ballots and 32.58 percent of voter preference to lose by a difference of just 657 votes.
Juan Carlos Pelayo Pelayo of the National Action Party (PAN) was left in the dust, gaining a mere 4,722 votes and 22.91 percent of the total.
The remainder of the 20,234 valid votes were divided as follows: Mario Francisco Ferrer Villafuentes – New Alliance Party (PANAL) – 377 votes (1.83%); Edgar Alejandro Ramirez Perez – Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) – 365 votes (1.77%); Adriana Pérez Ornelas – Labor Party (PT) – 299 votes (1.44%); José de Jesús Hernández Hernández – National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – 266 votes (1.29%); Ricardo Arturo Hermosillo Barragan – Social Encounter Party (PES) – 121 votes (0.59%); unregistered candidates – 2 votes (0.01%). Poll officials qualified 377 ballots (1.83%) as null and void.
Figures indicate that 55.23 percent of the Chapala electorate participated in the local election.
The numbers contrast sharply with the 2012 election when voters cast 22,458 valid ballots. In that race, PAN contender Joaquin Huerta beat out PRI-PVEM’s Gerardo Degollado in a 10,554- 9,375 split of the majority vote count, while Francisco Díaz, candidate for the emerging MC, captured 1,251 ballots.