INSTITUTO ELECTORAL DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO

What INSTITUTO ELECTORAL DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO does

The Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco (IEPC Jalisco) is a public autonomous electoral institute responsible for organizing and administering state and municipal elections throughout the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Headquartered in Guadalajara at Av. 16 de septiembre #497 in the historic city center, the institute operates across 20 uninominal electoral districts and 125 municipalities, with a permanent staff of 51-100 and a broader temporary workforce mobilized during electoral periods. Its functional mandate includes organizing gubernatorial, congressional (diputaciones), and municipal (ayuntamientos) elections, administering candidate and political-party registration, publishing electoral results, enforcing gender-parity and inclusion rules, and running civic-education and citizen-participation programs including consultations and referendums.

The institute's core technology stack is a portfolio of proprietary electoral management systems. These include the SICEE (Sistema Integral de Cómputo de Elecciones) for vote counting and result computation, the Sistema de Información Geoelectoral for electoral geography, the Sistema Integral del Registro de Candidaturas for candidate registration, the Buzón Digital de Quejas y Denuncias for digital complaint intake via the Contraloría General, and the Plataforma de Oficialía de Partes Virtual for document submission. The institute coordinates with federal partners including INE (national electoral authority), TEPJF and TRIJAL (electoral tribunals), and FEPADE (specialized electoral-crimes prosecutor), and collaborates with the IIEG on geoelectoral data infrastructure. The institute publishes civic-education materials (e.g., Revista Folios) and operates institutional social-media channels for public communication.

IEPC Jalisco has no commercial revenue and does not charge fees to citizens, candidates, or political parties. It is funded entirely through public budgetary allocations from the Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco and operates independently under the oversight of a Consejo General composed of electoral counselors and political-party representatives. Leadership includes a provisional president (Consejera Presidenta Provisional Transitorio), an executive secretariat, and executive directorates covering Administration, Legal Affairs, Electoral Organization and Statistics, Citizen Participation and Civic Education, and Prerrogatives and Inclusion, along with an internal Contraloría General.

Name

INSTITUTO ELECTORAL DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO

Legal name

Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana de Jalisco

Website

https://iepcjalisco.org.mx

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana del Estado de Jalisco is a public autonomous electoral institute that organizes and administers state, congressional, and municipal elections across Jalisco's 20 districts and 125 municipalities, providing voter registration, candidate registration, civic education, and citizen participation services to citizens and political parties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electoral Administration Services

NAICS

Legislative Bodies (92112), Legislative Bodies (921120), Executive Offices (921110)

SIC

Foreign Governments (8888)

akta.pro primary industry

City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

State Legislature/Regional Assembly Administration (BPAIABAB)

Keywords

• Electoral administration
• Civic education
• Voter registration
• Election management
• Citizen participation

Headquarters

HQ city

Guadalajara

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco: Public funding from the State Government of Jalisco for electoral operations, civic education programs, and institutional administration

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

IEPC Jalisco organizes, administers, and validates all state and local electoral processes in Jalisco, including gubernatorial, legislative (diputaciones), and municipal (ayuntamientos) elections, as well as extraordinary municipal elections. It registers political parties and state-level political groupings, registers candidates through the Sistema Integral del Registro de Candidaturas, runs the SICEE electoral counting system, publishes official results and electoral geography data, delivers civic education curricula, manages citizen participation mechanisms such as consultations and referendums, and enforces transparency, gender parity, and political violence prevention protocols.

Product overview

INSTITUTO ELECTORAL DE PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO is a Mexican government electoral institute that manages electoral processes in Jalisco state. It does not offer commercial products or services. The organization's offerings consist of civic and democratic functions including: electoral process administration (Procesos Electorales 2014-2015, 2017-2018, 2020-2021, 2023-2024), civic education programs (Educación Cívica), citizen participation mechanisms (Participación Ciudadana), electoral geography services (Geografía Electoral), electoral results publication (Resultados Electorales), transparency and access to public information, and institutional directory services. The institute operates under the domain iepcjalisco.org.mx and is headquartered in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electoral Process Administration (Procesos Electorales)

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerINE is the national electoral authority that coordinates with IEPC Jalisco on federal electoral processes, voter registration, and electoral norms. IEPC operates under INE's regulatory framework for concurrent elections.
• Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFederal electoral tribunal that resolves electoral disputes and annulments affecting Jalisco's electoral outcomes, providing electoral justice oversight.
• Tribunal Electoral del Estado de Jalisco (TRIJAL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState electoral tribunal that handles local electoral disputes and serves as the court of appeals for Jalisco electoral matters.
• Fiscalía Especializada en Delitos Electorales (FEPADE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpecialized prosecutor's office for electoral crimes that investigates and prosecutes violations of electoral law in Jalisco.
• Contraloría General del IEPC JaliscocoreOthersInternal control body of IEPC that handles complaints, audits, and transparency matters. Note: This is an internal organ rather than an external partner but listed for completeness.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• Instituto Electoral del Estado de México (IEEM): Electoral institute for the State of Mexico, the largest state in the country. Operates an analogous mandate to IEPC Jalisco for organizing state and municipal elections, candidate registration, and civic education within its state.
• Instituto Electoral del Estado de Puebla (IEE Puebla): State electoral authority for Puebla performing the same functions as IEPC Jalisco: organizing state and municipal elections, administering the candidate registry, and conducting civic education programs.
• Instituto Electoral de Quintana Roo (IEQROO): State electoral institute for Quintana Roo with parallel responsibilities for organizing local elections, civic education, and political party oversight. Comparable scope and institutional design to IEPC Jalisco.
• Instituto Electoral de la Ciudad de México (IECM): State-level electoral authority for Mexico City performing the same constitutional function as IEPC Jalisco: organizing local elections, registering parties and candidates, administering citizen participation, and conducting civic education within a single state jurisdiction.
• Instituto Electoral y de Participación Ciudadana de Yucatán (IEPAC Yucatán): State-level electoral and citizen participation institute for Yucatán. Has a near-identical constitutional mandate and naming convention to IEPC Jalisco, including citizen participation mechanisms, making it one of the closest functional peers in Mexico's state electoral system.

Broad incumbents

• Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE): Mexico's national electoral authority that coordinates with and regulates IEPC Jalisco. It is the broader incumbent overseeing concurrent federal-state-municipal elections, voter registration, and electoral norms across all 32 Mexican states, making it the apex peer in the Mexican electoral architecture.

Others

• Tribunal Electoral del Estado de Jalisco (TRIJAL): State-level electoral tribunal referenced as a core partner of IEPC Jalisco. While not a peer electoral administrator, it is the immediate judicial counterpart for electoral disputes in Jalisco, forming a tightly coupled pair with the institute in state electoral governance.
• Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI): National statistics agency that, while not an electoral body, provides demographic and geographic data used by electoral institutes like IEPC Jalisco for redistricting, voter registration, and turnout analysis — an enabling institutional peer.
• Fiscalía Especializada en Delitos Electorales (FEPADE): Specialized federal prosecutor's office for electoral crimes that partners with IEPC Jalisco and all state electoral institutes. It is an adjacent governmental peer operating in the same electoral ecosystem rather than a competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/iepcjalisco
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/iepcjalisco
• Facebookfacebook.com/iepcjalisco
• Instagraminstagram.com/iepcjalisco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/instituto-electoral-de-participaci%C3%B3n-ciudadana-del-estado-de-jalisco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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