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Office briefing

El Cocuy — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · El Cocuy / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15244

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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 Cocuy / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-12459f4793213b8d2dec28b6
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

  • COALICION CONSTRUYAMOS OPORTUNIDADES PARA TODOS63.2%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE27.0%
  • DESARROLLO CON ARMONIA Y DIGNIDAD6.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U3.7%
Results for event-14e07e727b5c9b2d08947ef3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION CONSTRUYAMOS OPORTUNIDADES PARA TODOS · Alejandro Muñoz Sandoval20230736colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,43663.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Luis Enrique Tellez20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202361427%UnknownRecorded
DESARROLLO CON ARMONIA Y DIGNIDAD · Carlos Julio Puentes Bareño20231089colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231376%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Carlos Alberto Velandia Buitrago20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023853.7%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE39.2%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL COCOUY-BOY. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE - "DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CON BIENESTAR PARA TODOS"36.6%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO24.2%
Results for event-78f37a2d6b51e340c723ef5c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Tomas Ruiz Silva20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/201991339.2%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL COCOUY-BOY. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE - "DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE CON BIENESTAR PARA TODOS" · Alejandro Muñoz Sandoval20191796colombia/S67eb704c85/201985436.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Henry Buitrago Correa18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/201956424.2%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO42.9%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO29.2%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE27.9%
Results for event-27109e8fd4f124f1c7088ef1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Ramiro Daza Mora18490002colombia/S8164286948/20151,01942.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Tomas Ruiz Silva18480001colombia/S8164286948/201569329.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Harol Ussa Suarez20130001colombia/S8164286948/201566327.9%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=36.179577464788736, oldest_gap=13.726315789473684, previous_gap=2.5311025311025332

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

63.36percentage 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: 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=[[0,0,3.7411971830985915,0,0,27.024647887323944,0,0,0,0,69.23415492957747],[24.195624195624195,0,0,0,39.16773916773917,0,0,0,0,0,36.63663663663664],[42.90526315789474,29.178947368421053,0,0,27.91578947368421,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

47.89percentage 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=[[0,0,3.7411971830985915,0,0,27.024647887323944,0,0,0,0,69.23415492957747],[24.195624195624195,0,0,0,39.16773916773917,0,0,0,0,0,36.63663663663664],[42.90526315789474,29.178947368421053,0,0,27.91578947368421,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.63percentage 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=[[0,0,3.7411971830985915,0,0,27.024647887323944,0,0,0,0,69.23415492957747],[24.195624195624195,0,0,0,39.16773916773917,0,0,0,0,0,36.63663663663664],[42.90526315789474,29.178947368421053,0,0,27.91578947368421,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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. “El Cocuy — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15244. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.