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Taraza — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Taraza / Antioquia · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-05790

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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
Taraza / Antioquia
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-2ebab3a284845feee6d63b4f
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

  • SOY TARAZA62.0%
  • CEDE party code 2023000230.0%
  • PACTO HISTORICO4.8%
  • PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD3.2%
Results for event-7cd15bcff2960996fe92b4b9
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SOY TARAZA · Yomer Fabian Alvarez Correa20231997colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20237,08362%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230002 · Dawinson Gomez Tamayo20230002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233,42230%UnknownRecorded
PACTO HISTORICO · Ruben Waldo Cano Agudelo20231615colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20235534.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD · Jesus Anibal Yepes Barrientos20200001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233653.2%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO39.0%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE TARAZA-ANT. MOVIMIENTO COMUNITARIO Y PARTIDO CONSERVADOR38.6%
  • PARTIDO DE REIVINDICACION ETNICA - PRE8.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS7.5%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO5.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO0.2%
Results for event-af136e9704dbce5eb9210f87
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Miguel Angel Gomez Garcia18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,99339%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE TARAZA-ANT. MOVIMIENTO COMUNITARIO Y PARTIDO CONSERVADOR · Hector Leonidas Giraldo Arango20190537colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,95738.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO DE REIVINDICACION ETNICA - PRE · Edgar Alberto Ortiz Gonzalez20180004colombia/S67eb704c85/20199148.9%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Jose Dumar Monsalve Mazo20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/20197707.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Carlos Mario Cuartas Torres20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/20195925.8%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO · Silvio Ricaurte David Mazo19910001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019210.2%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO61.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U36.5%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI0.9%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA0.9%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS0.7%
Results for event-c0d6c92741810981ef459792
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Gladis Rebeca Miguel Vides18480001colombia/S8164286948/20157,44061%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Carlos Mario Cuartas Torres20050002colombia/S8164286948/20154,45036.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Yuan Andres Restrepo Obando19910006colombia/S8164286948/20151110.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Jose Ignacio Fernandez Martinez20090001colombia/S8164286948/20151050.9%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Yon Fredy Morales Caro20130002colombia/S8164286948/2015810.7%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=32.049374069859056, oldest_gap=24.534339870353655, previous_gap=0.351322338245339

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this 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=[null,[0,38.967502683712304,0,5.777300673367815,0,0,0,7.514394456914219,0,0.20493803064311505,47.535864155362546],[0,61.04865840649873,36.514318536145076,0,0,0,0.910806597193731,0.6646426520062362,0,0,0.8615738081562321]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

59.51percentage 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=[null,[0,38.967502683712304,0,5.777300673367815,0,0,0,7.514394456914219,0,0.20493803064311505,47.535864155362546],[0,61.04865840649873,36.514318536145076,0,0,0,0.910806597193731,0.6646426520062362,0,0,0.8615738081562321]]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

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=[null,[0,38.967502683712304,0,5.777300673367815,0,0,0,7.514394456914219,0,0.20493803064311505,47.535864155362546],[0,61.04865840649873,36.514318536145076,0,0,0,0.910806597193731,0.6646426520062362,0,0,0.8615738081562321]]

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

    Cite this record

    Center for Digital Democracy. “Taraza — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-05790. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.