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Office briefing

El Espino — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · El Espino / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15248

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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 Espino / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-acdd6266ac8bc002a443297d
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 CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE56.0%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO44.0%
Results for event-255066de89740daedb99272a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Armando Tarazona Gallo20130001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202395456%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Juan Felipe Mojica Mojica18490002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202375144%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO50.2%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE DOSQUEBRADAS-RIS. PARTIDO COLOMBIA JUSTA LIBRES Y PARTIDO DE LA U - "DOSQUEBRADAS SI ES POSIBLE"41.9%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE6.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO1.6%
Results for event-5c7e8d82de7c5fd9c6e4b200
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Edberto Jose Jaime Cocunubo18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/201986150.2%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE DOSQUEBRADAS-RIS. PARTIDO COLOMBIA JUSTA LIBRES Y PARTIDO DE LA U - "DOSQUEBRADAS SI ES POSIBLE" · Armando Tarazona Gallo20191797colombia/S67eb704c85/201971841.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Karen Dayanny Carreño Buitrago20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191076.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO · Saraith Santisteban Carrero19910001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019281.6%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL ESPINO. ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL46.2%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL ESPINO. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CONSERVADOR31.4%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE22.4%
Results for event-67a43726c4c9419eb53a6a28
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL ESPINO. ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL · Hector Miguel Mojica Mojica20150088colombia/S8164286948/201573746.2%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE EL ESPINO. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CONSERVADOR · Edberto Jose Jaime Cocunubo20150089colombia/S8164286948/201550131.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Hector Libardo Carvajal Hormaza20130001colombia/S8164286948/201535722.4%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

44.370–100 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=11.906158357771261, oldest_gap=14.796238244514104, previous_gap=8.343057176196027

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.95percentage 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=[[44.04692082111437,0,0,0,55.95307917888563,0,0,0,0,0,0],[50.23337222870478,0,0,0,0,6.242707117852976,0,0,0,1.633605600933489,41.890315052508754],[0,0,0,0,22.38244514106583,0,0,0,0,0,77.61755485893417]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

58.11percentage 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=[[44.04692082111437,0,0,0,55.95307917888563,0,0,0,0,0,0],[50.23337222870478,0,0,0,0,6.242707117852976,0,0,0,1.633605600933489,41.890315052508754],[0,0,0,0,22.38244514106583,0,0,0,0,0,77.61755485893417]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

57.03percentage 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=[[44.04692082111437,0,0,0,55.95307917888563,0,0,0,0,0,0],[50.23337222870478,0,0,0,0,6.242707117852976,0,0,0,1.633605600933489,41.890315052508754],[0,0,0,0,22.38244514106583,0,0,0,0,0,77.61755485893417]]

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 Espino — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15248. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.