{ "data": { "id": "dominican-republic-general-2028-r2", "country": "DO", "country_name": "Dominican Republic", "level": "national", "subdivision": null, "subdivision_name": null, "date": "2028-06-25", "date_status": "tentative", "kind": "runoff", "conditional": "Held only if no presidential ticket obtains more than half of the valid votes cast on 21 May 2028. The second election takes place on the last Sunday of June of the same year (25 Jun 2028: the Sundays of June 2028 are 4, 11, 18 and 25), between the two tickets with the most votes; the one with the most valid votes wins (Constitution art. 209.1). The JCE dictates its proclama within three days of the first-round result (JCE 2028 calendar: 3 Jun 2028). The Senate, Chamber of Deputies and PARLACEN have no second round.", "timezone": "America/Santo_Domingo", "status": "scheduled", "last_verified_at": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z", "stale": false, "stale_reason": null, "provenance": { "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: JCE Calendario de Actividades Administrativas y Plazos Legales 2028 (jce.gob.do, heyzine PDF), Constitución 2024 arts. 78, 81, 209, 274 and transitory provisions (JCE copy), Ley 20-23 Orgánica del Régimen Electoral arts. 236, 249, 273-274, 291-292, 300-302 (JCE copy), elecciones2024.jce.gob.do (Resoluciones 41-45 of 2024), El Día and Prensa Latina on the 2024 declarations, Diario Financiero on the 2024 first bulletin", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)" }, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/dominican-republic-general-2028-r2", "races": [ { "id": "president", "key": "dominican-republic-general-2028-r2/president", "name": "President and Vice President", "body": "head-of-state", "seats": null, "seats_provisional": false, "polls_close_utc": "2028-06-25T21:00:00Z", "authority": { "id": "do-jce", "name": "Central Electoral Board", "name_local": "Junta Central Electoral", "role": "electoral-commission", "homepage": "https://jce.gob.do/", "results_index": "https://jce.gob.do/Dependencias/Elecciones/Elecciones-Anteriores", "open_data": null }, "status": "scheduled", "expected_stage_now": null, "observed": false, "final_observed": null, "final_expected": { "from": "2028-06-28T04:00:00Z", "by": "2028-07-26T03:59:59Z", "confidence": "announced", "basis": "The JCE formulates the general relation of the result 'Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de la elección' (Ley 20-23 art. 292); its 2028 calendar sets 25 Jul 2028 as that deadline for the second presidential election. The window closes at the end of 25 Jul 2028 local (UTC-4); art. 292 lets the relation come later 'a la mayor brevedad posible', so this end is the legal target, not an absolute bound. The opening is an ESTIMATED floor: the definitive count is due within two days (art. 274 párr. IV; calendar: 27 Jun), followed by the TSE challenge and appeal deadlines (calendar: 28 Jun-5 Jul 2028, Ley 39-25 arts. 25, 29, 31), which are decided before the JCE's declaration, so there is no separate court stage. No precedent under the current law: the last presidential second round was on 30 Jun 1996. For the first round of 2024 the JCE declared the winner on day 5-6 (Resolución 41-2024; El Día, 25 May 2024). The JCE issues the certificates (art. 300); the National Assembly proclaims the President and Vice President (art. 302); the term begins on 16 Aug 2028 (Constitution art. 274)." }, "last_final": null, "previous": null, "stages": [ { "stage": "election-night", "from": "2028-06-25T21:00:00Z", "by": "2028-06-28T03:59:59Z", "replacedAt": "2028-07-26T03:59:59Z", "confidence": "estimate", "citation": "Ley 20-23 art. 236: voting from 07:00 to 17:00 'como plazo máximo', unless the JCE extends it (art. 249: voters in line at 17:00 still vote). The Dominican Republic is on AST (UTC-4) all year, so 17:00 local is 21:00 UTC. The juntas electorales issue partial bulletins as the provisional relation is built (art. 274) and send them to the JCE's central computer. 2024 precedent: the JCE announced its first bulletin for 20:30 local on election night, once 20% of the polling stations were counted (Diario Financiero, 16 May 2024, quoting JCE president Román Jáquez). The window closes at the end of 27 Jun 2028 local, when the definitive count of the juntas is due ('no mayor de dos (2) días', art. 274 párr. IV; JCE calendar: 'Término del Cómputo Electoral'); that end is an ESTIMATE. These bulletins are provisional, not the JCE's declaration of the result.", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null }, { "stage": "final-result", "from": "2028-06-28T04:00:00Z", "by": "2028-07-26T03:59:59Z", "replacedAt": null, "confidence": "announced", "citation": "The JCE formulates the general relation of the result 'Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de la elección' (Ley 20-23 art. 292); its 2028 calendar sets 25 Jul 2028 as that deadline for the second presidential election. The window closes at the end of 25 Jul 2028 local (UTC-4); art. 292 lets the relation come later 'a la mayor brevedad posible', so this end is the legal target, not an absolute bound. The opening is an ESTIMATED floor: the definitive count is due within two days (art. 274 párr. IV; calendar: 27 Jun), followed by the TSE challenge and appeal deadlines (calendar: 28 Jun-5 Jul 2028, Ley 39-25 arts. 25, 29, 31), which are decided before the JCE's declaration, so there is no separate court stage. No precedent under the current law: the last presidential second round was on 30 Jun 1996. For the first round of 2024 the JCE declared the winner on day 5-6 (Resolución 41-2024; El Día, 25 May 2024). The JCE issues the certificates (art. 300); the National Assembly proclaims the President and Vice President (art. 302); the term begins on 16 Aug 2028 (Constitution art. 274).", "source": null, "observedAt": null, "observedSource": null } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://jce.gob.do/Dependencias/Elecciones/Elecciones-Anteriores", "role": "results-live", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "JCE index of past elections (Elecciones Anteriores), read 2 Oct 2026: it links the per-election 2024 site elecciones2024.jce.gob.do and older results. No page for the 2028 election exists yet (elecciones2028.jce.gob.do did not resolve through our proxy on 2 Oct 2026); the 2028 path is unconfirmed. Second-round bulletins are provisional.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://elecciones2024.jce.gob.do/resultados-presidenciales-y-congresuales", "role": "see-also", "kind": "race_results", "kindReason": "election code and results marker", "resolvable": true, "origin": "race", "note": "2024 precedent: the JCE's 2024 results page ('Resultados Definitivos Presidencial y Congresual'), with Resoluciones 41-45 of 2024 declaring the winners at each level. Its documents were behind a captcha for our fetcher on 2 Oct 2026.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://jce.gob.do/Elecciones/Calendario-de-Actividades-Administrativas-y-Plazos-Legales-2024", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "JCE Calendario de Actividades Administrativas y Plazos Legales 2028 (Dirección Nacional de Elecciones, ©2026), shown on this page as a heyzine flipbook (PDF: cdnm.heyzine.com/files/uploaded/v3/3e73fdf13f2f60e27701afd5009486db617f684b.pdf, read 2 Oct 2026; the page URL still ends in '-2024' but is titled 2028). Its presentation lists the municipal elections in February 2028, 'las elecciones presidenciales, senatoriales y de diputaciones en mayo de 2028' and an eventual 'segunda elección presidencial el último domingo de junio de 2028'. Its legal-deadline table (Nivel presidencial, May 2028) puts 'ELECCIONES ORDINARIAS GENERALES PRESIDENCIALES, SENATORIALES Y DE DIPUTACIONES 2028' on day 21, end of the count ('Término del Cómputo Electoral. 2 días', Ley 20-23 art. 274 párr. IV) on 23 May, the TSE challenge and appeal deadlines (Ley 39-25 arts. 25, 29, 31) from 24 to 31 May, the runoff proclama on 3 Jun, the deadline for the general relation of elected candidates and votes ('30 días siguientes', Ley 20-23 art. 292) on 20 Jun, the second presidential election on 25 Jun, its relation deadline on 25 Jul, and the inauguration on 16 Aug 2028. The Proclama Electoral (Ley 20-23 art. 97, at least 70 days before) is not yet dictated.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://jce.gob.do/portaltransparencia/Repositorio?EntryId=31453&Command=Core_Download", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Constitución de la República Dominicana, proclaimed 27 Oct 2024 (JCE copy). Art. 209: elections 'se celebrarán el tercer domingo del mes de mayo' every four years; art. 209.1: if no presidential ticket obtains more than half of the valid votes, 'se efectuará una segunda elección el último domingo del mes de junio del mismo año'. Art. 274: the elected terms end on 16 Aug every four years. Transitory provisions 5 and 7: the 2028 municipal elections are held separately on the third Sunday of February 2028 (not a national election, not profiled here). Polling day 21 May 2028: the third Sunday of May 2028 (1 May 2028 is a Monday, so the Sundays are 7, 14 and 21 May), Constitution art. 209; the JCE's 2028 calendar gives the same day. Kept tentative until the JCE dictates the Proclama Electoral. Terms run four years and end on 16 Aug (art. 274); an extraordinary election would need a convocation law (art. 209.3).", "check": null }, { "url": "https://jce.gob.do/portaltransparencia/Repositorio/Vista-Escritorio?EntryId=24762&Command=Core_Download&Method=attachment", "role": "timetable", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "no election or results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "Ley 20-23 Orgánica del Régimen Electoral (G.O. 11100, 21 Feb 2023), JCE copy linked from jce.gob.do/Partidos-Politicos. Art. 236: voting 'Comenzará a las siete (7) de la mañana y terminará a las cinco (5) de la tarde, como plazo máximo, salvo que la Junta Central Electoral, por razones atendibles, decida ampliar dicho plazo'. Art. 274: partial bulletins while the provisional relation is completed; párrafo IV: the definitive count 'deberá quedar terminado dentro de un período no mayor de dos (2) días'. Art. 291: the JCE makes the national count for president, senators, deputies, international parliaments and overseas deputies. Art. 292: the JCE's general relation of the result 'Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de la elección, o a la mayor brevedad posible, después de transcurrido este plazo'. Arts. 300-302: the JCE issues the certificates of election; the President and Vice President are proclaimed by the National Assembly.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Dominican_Republic_general_election", "role": "see-also", "kind": "other", "kindReason": "election page without a results marker", "resolvable": false, "origin": "race", "note": "No English Wikipedia article for the 2028 election on 2 Oct 2026; the 2024 article is the closest.", "check": null }, { "url": "https://jce.gob.do/", "role": "authority-home", "kind": "emb_home", "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question", "resolvable": false, "origin": "authority", "check": null } ], "page_activity": [], "government": null, "results": [], "live_count": null, "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/dominican-republic-general-2028-r2#president" } ] }, "meta": { "dataset_version": "2026-10-02.be7d6f40", "built_at": "2026-10-02T15:42:24Z", "generated_at": "2026-10-02T18:15:05.453Z", "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Global Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org", "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs" } }