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Office briefing

Chita — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Chita / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15183

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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
Chita / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-a9e82453ef1d3c31de5e1548
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 CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO55.2%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO44.7%
  • POR UN DESARROLLO INCLUSIVO Y SOSTENIBLE PARA CHITA0.1%
Results for event-ad4f9278a159e6a88b5eb785
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Vladimir Riscanevo Poblador18490002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,44955.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Jose Clodoveo Fuentes Fuentes20030001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,98344.7%UnknownRecorded
POR UN DESARROLLO INCLUSIVO Y SOSTENIBLE PARA CHITA · Maria Juvenilia Hernandez Cetina20231770colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202330.1%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO55.3%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE CHITA-BOY. PARTIDO CONSERVADOR Y PARTIDO DE LA U44.7%
Results for event-6fd4f97dcbe2ff429e04494e
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Jose Miguel Velandia Alarcon20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,25255.3%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE CHITA-BOY. PARTIDO CONSERVADOR Y PARTIDO DE LA U · Vladimir Riscanevo Poblador20190144colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,82444.7%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE41.1%
  • COALICION GESTION Y BUEN GOBIERNO UNIDOS SOMOS MAS34.8%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO24.2%
Results for event-e803538e859a44c1f4738003
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Yamit Ariel Avila Niño20130001colombia/S8164286948/20151,60741.1%UnknownRecorded
COALICION GESTION Y BUEN GOBIERNO UNIDOS SOMOS MAS · Vladimir Riscanevo Poblador20150081colombia/S8164286948/20151,36134.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Rodulfo De Jesus Gomez Cetina20030001colombia/S8164286948/201594524.2%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

49.580–100 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=10.507328072153328, oldest_gap=6.2867365192946565, previous_gap=10.50049067713445

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.22percentage 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=[[55.219842164599775,0,0,44.71251409244645,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.06764374295377677],[0,0,0,55.250245338567225,0,0,0,0,0,0,44.749754661432775],[0,0,0,24.15026833631485,41.068234091489906,0,0,0,0,0,34.78149757219525]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.07percentage 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=[[55.219842164599775,0,0,44.71251409244645,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.06764374295377677],[0,0,0,55.250245338567225,0,0,0,0,0,0,44.749754661432775],[0,0,0,24.15026833631485,41.068234091489906,0,0,0,0,0,34.78149757219525]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.14percentage 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=[[55.219842164599775,0,0,44.71251409244645,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.06764374295377677],[0,0,0,55.250245338567225,0,0,0,0,0,0,44.749754661432775],[0,0,0,24.15026833631485,41.068234091489906,0,0,0,0,0,34.78149757219525]]

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. “Chita — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15183. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.