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Santa Barbara — Mayor
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Colombia · Santa Barbara / Antioquia · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-05679
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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.
1. What office, where, and when is the next election?
- Geography
- Santa Barbara / Antioquia
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-d8f8ecc2ed24ef44b50badd1
- Registry qualification
- Unknown
2. How certain is that date?
2027-10-31 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.
3. Who won earlier selected elections?
2023
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARA VOLVER A CREER53.1%
- CREEMOS38.4%
- TODO ES POSIBLE7.2%
- MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO1.2%
- MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS0.1%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARA VOLVER A CREER · Jorge Mario Quintana Cañaveral | 20150249colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 6,509 | 53.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| CREEMOS · Julio Cesar Ospina Lopez | 20150003colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 4,705 | 38.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| TODO ES POSIBLE · Hernan Alberto Bedoya Sanchez | 20232030colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 887 | 7.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · Didier Leon Ocampo Cuervo | 19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 142 | 1.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Jairo De Jesus Suarez Rios | 20130002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 17 | 0.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA BARBARA-ANT. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - "UNIDOS POR EL CAMBIO"53.4%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA BARBARA-ANT. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO DE LA U - "CONSTRUYAMOS FUTURO"42.3%
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO3.8%
- PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA0.5%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA BARBARA-ANT. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - "UNIDOS POR EL CAMBIO" · Luis Fernando Tangarife Cardona | 20190526colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 6,582 | 53.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA BARBARA-ANT. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO DE LA U - "CONSTRUYAMOS FUTURO" · Jorge Mario Quintana Cañaveral | 20190527colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 5,210 | 42.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Gilberto De Jesus Cardona Cardona | 18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 473 | 3.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA · Jesus Huber Villada Villada | 20190033colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 61 | 0.5% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO41.2%
- SANTA BARBARA COMPROMISO DE TODOS39.1%
- PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO16.5%
- POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO3.1%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Monica Maria Ocampo Restrepo | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 4,924 | 41.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| SANTA BARBARA COMPROMISO DE TODOS · Luis Fernando Tangarife Cardona | 20150037colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 4,675 | 39.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Maria Celia Roman Quintero | 20030001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 1,971 | 16.5% | Unknown | Recorded |
| POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO · Jose Pompilio Zapata Zapata | 20050001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 373 | 3.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI38.120–100 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=14.714518760195752, oldest_gap=2.0849032906304927, previous_gap=11.130942722699984
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility3.84percentage 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
Comparison status: Latest interval
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.13866231647634583,0,0,99.86133768352366],[3.8374168424468604,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,96.16258315755313],[0,41.229171899857654,0,16.503391107761868,0,0,0,0,3.1231683831533115,0,39.14426860922716]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility60.86percentage 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
Comparison status: Previous interval
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.13866231647634583,0,0,99.86133768352366],[3.8374168424468604,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,96.16258315755313],[0,41.229171899857654,0,16.503391107761868,0,0,0,0,3.1231683831533115,0,39.14426860922716]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility32.35percentage 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
Comparison status: Both intervals mean
Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.13866231647634583,0,0,99.86133768352366],[3.8374168424468604,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,96.16258315755313],[0,41.229171899857654,0,16.503391107761868,0,0,0,0,3.1231683831533115,0,39.14426860922716]]
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.
National context is listed on the polling page. It is not a local forecast.
7. Unresolved issues and sources
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. Six 2023 assemblies remain absent: Amazonas, Guainía, Huila, Risaralda, Vaupés and Vichada. Cali’s 37 JAL boards and dated membership rosters are registered; the national JAL register, three-cycle votes and replacement-event final returns remain incomplete. Twenty mixed-list-type histories, Bogotá and Cali 2015 partial counts and candidate/elected-flag inconsistencies require reconciliation. The national historical portal rejected this browser through security screening. Full legal seat allocation is separate from candidate flags and directory headcounts.
Sources
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/BWJDHW · rights unknown
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/QVG0NB · rights unknown
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/UJ4B6K · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2023 alcaldia · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2019 alcaldia · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2015 alcaldia · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “Santa Barbara — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-05679. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.