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Office briefing

Gachantiva — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Gachantiva / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15293

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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
Gachantiva / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-802df6eed1c24b1c3743ba69
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 ALIANZA VERDE51.0%
  • COALICION COMPROMISO, TRABAJO Y LIDERAZGO POR GACHANTIVA45.2%
  • COMPROMETIDOS CON GACHANTIVA3.8%
Results for event-a2cf6900b8abac69eca04ab7
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Jaime Armando Gomez Buitrago20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,18751%UnknownRecorded
COALICION COMPROMISO, TRABAJO Y LIDERAZGO POR GACHANTIVA · Querubin Rodrigo Pinilla Reyes20230517colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,05345.2%UnknownRecorded
COMPROMETIDOS CON GACHANTIVA · Ramon Eliecer Castillo Saavedra20230960colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023893.8%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO43.8%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO23.2%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE15.1%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U10.3%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE6.3%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI1.3%
Results for event-1a30612c8383dd8974e56c12
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Pedro Alonso Aguillon Puentes18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,00143.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Jose Alfredo Forero Suarez20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/201953023.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Jefersson Vladimir Soacha Sanabria20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/201934615.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Querubin Rodrigo Pinilla Reyes20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/201923510.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Jaime Armando Gomez Buitrago20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/20191436.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Luis Carlos Guerrero19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/2019301.3%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • UNIDOS POR GACHANTIVA50.5%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE GACHANTIVA. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE25.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS21.3%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO3.0%
Results for event-f690f2554061407dcd36fa0a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
UNIDOS POR GACHANTIVA · Jorge Edicson Saavedra Velasco20150091colombia/S8164286948/20151,18850.5%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE GACHANTIVA. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Javier Adriano Sanabria Suarez20150092colombia/S8164286948/201559325.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Pedro Alonso Aguillon Puentes20130002colombia/S8164286948/201550121.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Luis Natanael Vargas Niño18490002colombia/S8164286948/2015713%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

39.180–100 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=5.753542292829536, oldest_gap=25.286867828304295, previous_gap=20.612691466083152

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

93.74percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,50.96607986260197,0,0,0,0,49.03392013739803],[43.8074398249453,0,10.284463894967177,23.194748358862146,15.14223194748359,0,1.312910284463895,0,0,0,6.258205689277899],[3.0174245643858906,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.29196770080748,0,0,75.69060773480663]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

90.72percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,50.96607986260197,0,0,0,0,49.03392013739803],[43.8074398249453,0,10.284463894967177,23.194748358862146,15.14223194748359,0,1.312910284463895,0,0,0,6.258205689277899],[3.0174245643858906,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.29196770080748,0,0,75.69060773480663]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

92.23percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,50.96607986260197,0,0,0,0,49.03392013739803],[43.8074398249453,0,10.284463894967177,23.194748358862146,15.14223194748359,0,1.312910284463895,0,0,0,6.258205689277899],[3.0174245643858906,0,0,0,0,0,0,21.29196770080748,0,0,75.69060773480663]]

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. “Gachantiva — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15293. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.