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Covarachia — Mayor

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Colombia · Covarachia / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15218

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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
Covarachia / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-a53287c81b3e59bc3eff64a6
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 SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U51.1%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE47.8%
  • INDEPENDIENTES1.1%
Results for event-31f18c9ac0595a8226338014
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Yolanda Salazar Sierra20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,38651.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Luis Alberto Siza Pinto20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,29747.8%UnknownRecorded
INDEPENDIENTES · Albeydi Liliana Salazar Toloza20190087colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023291.1%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO64.1%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE35.1%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO0.7%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE0.1%
Results for event-0d42788b30b9fe87dbba5f07
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Wilson Isay Moreno Vega18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,45164.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Luis Alfonso Camacho Tellez20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/201979435.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Omar Albeiro Aguilar Albarracin20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019160.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Carlos Francisco Gualdron Gualdron20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/201920.1%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U55.0%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO39.9%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA4.6%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO0.5%
Results for event-2f8aa4b4e1d323e77f6b9a5d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Yolanda Salazar Sierra20050002colombia/S8164286948/20151,18755%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Wilson Isay Moreno Vega18490002colombia/S8164286948/201586139.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Alvaro Manrique Lopez20090001colombia/S8164286948/20151004.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Antonio Maria Corzo Gomez20030001colombia/S8164286948/2015100.5%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

39.050–100 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=3.2817109144542798, oldest_gap=15.106580166821132, previous_gap=29.032258064516128

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

64.91percentage 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=[[0,0,51.10619469026549,0,0,47.82448377581121,0,0,0,0,1.0693215339233038],[64.11842686699072,0,0,0.7070260715863897,0.08837825894829872,35.08616880247459,0,0,0,0,0],[39.89805375347544,0,55.00463392029657,0.4633920296570899,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.633920296570899]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

59.64percentage 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=[[0,0,51.10619469026549,0,0,47.82448377581121,0,0,0,0,1.0693215339233038],[64.11842686699072,0,0,0.7070260715863897,0.08837825894829872,35.08616880247459,0,0,0,0,0],[39.89805375347544,0,55.00463392029657,0.4633920296570899,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.633920296570899]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

62.28percentage 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=[[0,0,51.10619469026549,0,0,47.82448377581121,0,0,0,0,1.0693215339233038],[64.11842686699072,0,0,0.7070260715863897,0.08837825894829872,35.08616880247459,0,0,0,0,0],[39.89805375347544,0,55.00463392029657,0.4633920296570899,0,0,0,0,0,0,4.633920296570899]]

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. “Covarachia — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15218. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.