Office briefing
Socota — Mayor
Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.
Colombia · Socota / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15755
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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
- Socota / Boyaca
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-2b110e16aac6ab9ab9417234
- 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 U49.2%
- COALICION TRABAJANDO UNIDOS POR EL DESARROLLO Y BIENESTAR DE NUESTRO SOCOTA28.6%
- PARTIDO VERDE OXIGENO22.2%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Adiel Panqueba Chia | 20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 2,156 | 49.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION TRABAJANDO UNIDOS POR EL DESARROLLO Y BIENESTAR DE NUESTRO SOCOTA · Juan Pablo Cruz Niño | 20230909colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,254 | 28.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO VERDE OXIGENO · Jhon Alexander Perez Bello | 19980003colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 973 | 22.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE42.7%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOCOTA-BOY. PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE - PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO AICO- "JUNTOS POR EL DESARROLLO Y BIENESTAR DE SOCOTA"28.4%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOCOTA-BOY. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL - "PROGRESAMOS CON EXPERIENCIA Y CAMBIO SOCIAL 2020-2023"20.3%
- MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS4.8%
- PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE3.8%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · William Eusebio Correa Duran | 20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,829 | 42.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOCOTA-BOY. PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE - PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO AICO- "JUNTOS POR EL DESARROLLO Y BIENESTAR DE SOCOTA" · Juan Pablo Cruz Niño | 20191871colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,216 | 28.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOCOTA-BOY. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL - "PROGRESAMOS CON EXPERIENCIA Y CAMBIO SOCIAL 2020-2023" · Pablo Ricardo Lizarazo Navas | 20191870colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 868 | 20.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Jose Efren Cristiano Alba | 20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 206 | 4.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Nidia Milena Torres Paez | 20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 164 | 3.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO39.3%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE21.6%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE20.2%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U14.3%
- PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA4.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Dairo Ruben Herrera Perez | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 1,579 | 39.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Arquimedes Mendivelso Bello | 20130001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 868 | 21.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · William Eusebio Correa Duran | 20090002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 813 | 20.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Wilmer Mendivelso Rincon | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 573 | 14.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Argemiro Velandia Alarcon | 20090001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 184 | 4.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI7.940–100 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=20.579511749942963, oldest_gap=17.699775952203137, previous_gap=14.312397851972914
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility49.19percentage 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=[[0,0,49.19005247547342,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,50.80994752452658],[0,0,0,0,42.70371235115573,0,0,4.809712818118141,0,0,52.48657483072612],[0,39.307941249688824,14.26437640029873,0,21.608165297485687,20.238984316654218,0,0,0,0,4.580532735872541]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility73.81percentage 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=[[0,0,49.19005247547342,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,50.80994752452658],[0,0,0,0,42.70371235115573,0,0,4.809712818118141,0,0,52.48657483072612],[0,39.307941249688824,14.26437640029873,0,21.608165297485687,20.238984316654218,0,0,0,0,4.580532735872541]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility61.5percentage 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=[[0,0,49.19005247547342,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,50.80994752452658],[0,0,0,0,42.70371235115573,0,0,4.809712818118141,0,0,52.48657483072612],[0,39.307941249688824,14.26437640029873,0,21.608165297485687,20.238984316654218,0,0,0,0,4.580532735872541]]
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
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/BWJDHW · rights unknown
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/QVG0NB · rights unknown
- Colombia: https://doi.org/10.71590/R2KLKI/UJ4B6K · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2023 alcaldia · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2019 alcaldia · rights unknown
- Colombia: CEDE Colombia 2015 alcaldia · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “Socota — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15755. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.