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Office briefing

Arroyo Hondo — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Arroyo Hondo / Bolivar · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-13062

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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
Arroyo Hondo / Bolivar
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-e158bcfd7da352f81c699328
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

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO75.9%
  • ACUERDO DE COALICION23.1%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE0.8%
  • PARTIDO DEL TRABAJO DE COLOMBIA - PTC0.2%
Results for event-0949635af7edf0775ff68740
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Zuleivis Del Carmen Coronel Cantillo18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20234,90575.9%UnknownRecorded
ACUERDO DE COALICION · Abel Antonio Paternina Orozco20230024colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,49323.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Hernan Alberto Utria Coronell20130001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023540.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO DEL TRABAJO DE COLOMBIA - PTC · Arnulfo Ospino Iriarte19700003colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023110.2%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO57.2%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE ARROYO HONDO-ATL. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - "POR UN ARROYO HONDO UNIDO"42.8%
Results for event-4b6f21cf124666f27f7350b7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Maria Del Rosario Hernandez Luna18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20194,06057.2%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE ARROYO HONDO-ATL. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - "POR UN ARROYO HONDO UNIDO" · Abel Antonio Paternina Orozco20190389colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,03642.8%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U58.6%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO41.4%
Results for event-4cf2e322e22f110e87ac9d28
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Carlos Paternina Orozco20050002colombia/S8164286948/20153,00458.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Emiro Manuel Garcia Cassiani18480001colombia/S8164286948/20152,12341.4%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=52.792820671514775, oldest_gap=17.183538131460892, previous_gap=14.430665163472383

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

76.73percentage 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=[[0,75.89354788797772,0,0,0.835525297849296,0,0,0,0,0,23.270926814172984],[57.21533258173619,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,42.78466741826381],[0,41.408230934269554,58.591769065730446,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

100percentage 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=[[0,75.89354788797772,0,0,0.835525297849296,0,0,0,0,0,23.270926814172984],[57.21533258173619,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,42.78466741826381],[0,41.408230934269554,58.591769065730446,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

88.36percentage 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=[[0,75.89354788797772,0,0,0.835525297849296,0,0,0,0,0,23.270926814172984],[57.21533258173619,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,42.78466741826381],[0,41.408230934269554,58.591769065730446,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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. “Arroyo Hondo — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-13062. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.