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Medellin — Mayor
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Colombia · Antioquia

Medellin — Mayor

Ordinary regional/municipal returns are supplemented by 38 published replacement/repeat events and the Cartago September 2026 call. Four previously missing office records are added. Putumayo and Vichada bulletins are preliminary; most new event outcomes lack certified vote vectors. Six ordinary assembly returns, the national JAL register and histories, certified seats and the legal relationship between new and superseded polls remain incomplete. The certified-results service blocked access. Legislative aggregation reviewed across 3,388 histories: 95 existing vote totals changed, including 94 with duplicated positive closed-list rows; mixed-list classifications remain excluded. Bogotá mayor cycles 2015/2019 and Santiago council cycles 2015/2019 are recovered by explicit name/code bridges. Bogotá and Cali 2015 council data are flagged partial; no full three-cycle comparison is claimed for them. Cali now has 37 registered JAL boards and 824 named membership records across three directory snapshots; these are not three election cycles. Its 2025 roster contains 300 names. The national historical download portal also presents a security-screening block.

Election expectation2027-10-31
Imported event records3
Usable vote comparison cycles3 of 3
Seat comparison cycles0 of 3

Historical competition

Competitiveness index for a verified actual-event sequence withheld. Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete.

Provisional imported-series CI: 0.0/100. This uses the three displayed comparison cycles and retains the open event/boundary audit. It does not confirm the latest three actual completed elections.

Grouped party-share volatility: latest interval 36.5 points; earlier interval 3.6 points; two-interval mean 20.1 points.

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Ten exact standalone national-party labels. Mixed coalitions, unidentified CEDE codes and other lists stay Other. Changes in coalition participation are not resolved into constituent-party votes. Geographic and actual-event audits remain open. 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

Current government and control: Unverified. Local government-risk forecast: unassessed.

National polling context: National presidential approval; context for subnational races — AtlasIntel / Bloomberg; fieldwork 2026-07-30 to 2026-08-03. Sample 2,191; reported margin of error ±2.00 percentage points. Earlier comparison wave; named officeholder and question wording retained. Outgoing-president evaluation, not the new administration baseline. Poll report

National polling context: National presidential approval; context for subnational races — AtlasIntel / Bloomberg; fieldwork 2026-08-30 to 2026-09-03. Sample 1,904; reported margin of error ±2.00 percentage points. The July survey evaluates outgoing Gustavo Petro and the August survey evaluates Abelardo de la Espriella. No within-president month-on-month trend is computed. The new administration starts with a positive approval balance; local party alignments and 2027 candidate selections must be checked separately. Poll report

Expected ordinary election on the last Sunday of October; formal call and 2027 roster require refresh. CEDE/Registraduría ordinary returns V2. Shares exclude blank and invalid ballots. Changing coalition labels and current control are not harmonized. Repeats, annulments and opposition-seat acceptance require certification review.

Registry and evidence links: Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

Electoral event evidence

Separate source records can belong to the same election cycle. Recounts, runoffs and void returns do not create additional cycles.

2023 · Ordinary election

Coverage: Full positive candidate vector

Basis: Share of recorded candidate/list votes; blank and invalid excluded

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
CREEMOSFederico Andres Gutierrez Zuluaga697,91079.10%—
INDEPENDIENTESJuan Carlos Upegui Vanegas95,88310.87%—
MEDELLIN NOS UNEAlbert Yordano Corredor Bustamante27,2613.09%—
POR MEDELLINMaria Paulina Aguinaga Lezcano12,8361.45%—
FUERZA CIUDADANA LA FUERZA DEL CAMBIOGilberto Tobon Sanin11,7761.33%—
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTERodolfo Andres Correa Vargas10,7071.21%—
MOVIMIENTO CUIDEMOS MEDELLINLuis Bernardo Velez Montoya6,3700.72%—
CEDE party code 20230003Deicy Elena Bermudez Hurtado4,1720.47%—
MOVIMIENTO DE SALVACION NACIONAL - MSNJuan Camilo Restrepo Gomez3,9440.45%—
PROPONEMOS POR MEDELLINJuan David Valderrama Lopez3,2140.36%—
DE FRENTE MOVIMIENTO LILIANISTALiliana Maria Rendon Roldan2,7490.31%—
POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVOCarlos Alberto Ballesteros Baron2,6760.30%—
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIAFelipe Velez Roa1,7140.19%—
SUMAMOSJaime Alberto Mejia Alvaran1,1070.13%—

Result source

2019 · Ordinary election

Coverage: Full positive candidate vector

Basis: Share of recorded candidate/list votes; blank and invalid excluded

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
INDEPENDIENTESDaniel Quintero Calle304,03443.28%—
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDEAlfredo Ramos235,31933.50%—
G.S.C SEGUIMOS CONTANDO CON VOSSantiago Gomez95,13813.54%—
G.S.C TODOS JUNTOSJuan David Valderrama Lopez22,1953.16%—
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDEBeatriz Rave13,7531.96%—
POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVOVictor Javier Correa Velez9,6701.38%—
PARTIDO COLOMBIA JUSTA LIBRESGemma Maria Mejia Izquierdo9,0391.29%—
G.S.C MEDELLIN AVANZAJuan Carlos Velez6,7090.96%—
PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICAJairo Herran Vargas2,8290.40%—
PARTIDO DE REIVINDICACION ETNICA - PRELuis Guillermo Hoyos Meneses1,4280.20%—
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTEJorge Orlando Gutierrez Serna1,2610.18%—
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIALuis Fernando Muñoz Ramirez1,1160.16%—

Result source

2015 · Ordinary election

Coverage: Full positive candidate vector

Basis: Share of recorded candidate/list votes; blank and invalid excluded

Party or listCandidateVotes or marksVote shareSeats
CREEMOSFederico Andres Gutierrez Zuluaga246,22138.33%—
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDEJuan Carlos Roberto Velez Uribe236,63236.83%—
GRAN ALIANZA POR MEDELLINGabriel Jaime Rico Betancur111,79617.40%—
COALICION ALCALDIA DE MEDELLIN. PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE Y PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTEFabio Alonso Salazar Jaramillo37,2415.80%—
POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVOHector Manuel Hoyos Meneses8,9341.39%—
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANORetirado (A)1,6060.25%—

Result source

Snapshot 13 September 2026. Fixed election window 8 September 2026 to 8 March 2028. Record CO-ALC-05001.