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Partial researchResearch snapshot 2026-09-13. Evidence gaps remain; see Coverage for requirements.

Office briefing

Santa Sofia — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Santa Sofia / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15696

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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
Santa Sofia / Boyaca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-98796a46268deb602df925cb
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

  • PA SERVIRLE A SUMERCE50.8%
  • CREER Y SERVIR CON AMOR POR SANTA SOFIA25.0%
  • UNIDOS POR LA TIERRITA14.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO DE SALVACION NACIONAL - MSN10.0%
Results for event-d315d102afe8aa3a4f0b3de1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PA SERVIRLE A SUMERCE · Claudio Alfonso Coy Guerra20231609colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,34250.8%UnknownRecorded
CREER Y SERVIR CON AMOR POR SANTA SOFIA · Yeidy Marielsy Espitia Padilla20231060colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202366125%UnknownRecorded
UNIDOS POR LA TIERRITA · Luis Eduardo Gonzalez Forero20232218colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202337614.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO DE SALVACION NACIONAL - MSN · Ligia Zahide Gamboa Morales19900001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202326510%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO57.6%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE42.4%
Results for event-91c21b288d601bc727699009
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · William Gustavo Parra Merchan18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,21957.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Luis Eduardo Gonzalez Forero20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/201989642.4%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA SOFIA. PARTIDO CONSERVADOR Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL - MARCANDO LA DIFERENCIA56.2%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE33.1%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U7.4%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA3.3%
Results for event-7f628cd2cf09a59bba8b3216
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION ALCALDIA DE SANTA SOFIA. PARTIDO CONSERVADOR Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL - MARCANDO LA DIFERENCIA · Angela Patricia Avila Hamon20150122colombia/S8164286948/20151,19956.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Wilson Rene Jimenez Lara20130001colombia/S8164286948/201570733.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Carlos Armando Salas Sotelo20050002colombia/S8164286948/20151597.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Pedro Maria Suarez Saenz20090001colombia/S8164286948/2015703.3%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=25.756429652042357, oldest_gap=23.04449648711944, previous_gap=15.27186761229315

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this 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=[null,[57.635933806146575,0,0,0,42.364066193853425,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,7.447306791569087,0,33.114754098360656,0,0,0,0,0,59.43793911007026]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.89percentage 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=[null,[57.635933806146575,0,0,0,42.364066193853425,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,7.447306791569087,0,33.114754098360656,0,0,0,0,0,59.43793911007026]]

pedersen volatility

Withheld volatility

Unknownpercentage 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 · Comparable grouped vectors unavailable for this interval

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=[null,[57.635933806146575,0,0,0,42.364066193853425,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,7.447306791569087,0,33.114754098360656,0,0,0,0,0,59.43793911007026]]

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. “Santa Sofia — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15696. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.