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Office briefing

El Peñon — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · El Peñon / Bolivar · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-13268

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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
El Peñon / Bolivar
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-7a958f60c922d93ba504cb03
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

  • EL PEÑON GANA 2024-202751.1%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO48.9%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI0.0%
Results for event-707952094a760820b40bd7fe
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
EL PEÑON GANA 2024-2027 · Luis Alberto Centeno Olivares20230317colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,62351.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · German Navarro Robles20030001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,51448.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Ketty Arias Ruidiaz19910006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202310%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO67.4%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO32.6%
Results for event-d8dc74ed78faf248c395d033
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Luis Antonio Venecia Capataz18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,14867.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Ketty Arias Ruidiaz18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,52332.6%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO54.3%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI45.5%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U0.2%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE0.1%
Results for event-d9cbb55740033f14d9948ff2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Arling Arias Garcia18490002colombia/S8164286948/20152,16854.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Jacob Angulo Centeno19910006colombia/S8164286948/20151,81745.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Francisco De Paula Vasquez Campo20050002colombia/S8164286948/201560.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Julio Salvador Mejia Vargas20130001colombia/S8164286948/201550.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

37.060–100 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=2.121448034254577, oldest_gap=8.783783783783782, previous_gap=34.789124384500106

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: 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=[[0,0,0,48.929544569871545,0,0,0.01946282600233554,0,0,0,51.05099260412612],[67.39456219225005,32.605437807749944,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.254254254254256,0,0.15015015015015015,0,0.12512512512512514,0,45.470470470470474,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

45.75percentage 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=[[0,0,0,48.929544569871545,0,0,0.01946282600233554,0,0,0,51.05099260412612],[67.39456219225005,32.605437807749944,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.254254254254256,0,0.15015015015015015,0,0.12512512512512514,0,45.470470470470474,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

72.87percentage 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=[[0,0,0,48.929544569871545,0,0,0.01946282600233554,0,0,0,51.05099260412612],[67.39456219225005,32.605437807749944,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[54.254254254254256,0,0.15015015015015015,0,0.12512512512512514,0,45.470470470470474,0,0,0,0]]

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. “El Peñon — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-13268. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.