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Sotaquira — Mayor
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Colombia · Sotaquira / Boyaca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-15763
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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
- Sotaquira / Boyaca
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-5a5947f9f98a4e947367497b
- 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
- POR EL RENACER DE UN PUEBLO UNIDO36.8%
- MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO31.7%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE18.2%
- CEDE party code 2023000112.7%
- G.S.C LIGA DE GOBERNANTES ANTICORRUPCION0.6%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POR EL RENACER DE UN PUEBLO UNIDO · Salomon Buitrago Fonseca | 20231739colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,821 | 36.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · Hector Alfonso Garcia Garcia | 19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,571 | 31.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Astrid Lorena Villamizar Ostos | 20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 902 | 18.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| CEDE party code 20230001 · Nubia Elizabeth Bermudez Tarazona | 20230001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 627 | 12.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| G.S.C LIGA DE GOBERNANTES ANTICORRUPCION · Luis Emilio Diaz Salamanca | 20191578colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 30 | 0.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS42.7%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE29.2%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOTAQUIRA-BOY. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL24.1%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE3.9%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Henry Santiago Suta Toca | 20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,889 | 42.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Manuel Antonio Robles Mateus | 20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,292 | 29.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOTAQUIRA-BOY. PARTIDO DE LA U Y PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL · Royman Andre Garavito Coronado | 20190165colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,064 | 24.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Marco Aurelio Niño Chaparro | 20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 174 | 3.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO48.0%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOTAQUIRA. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO19.0%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U17.9%
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO15.0%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Luis Felipe Higuera Robles | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 1,914 | 48% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE SOTAQUIRA. PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL Y PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO · Marco Aurelio Niño Chaparro | 20150128colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 757 | 19% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Jairo Lopez Rodriguez | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 714 | 17.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Julian Guillermo Camargo Amortegui | 18490002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 599 | 15% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI50.070–100 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=5.0494849525348435, oldest_gap=29.041164658634536, previous_gap=13.509843856076031
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility57.7percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,18.218541708745708,0,0,0,0,81.7814582912543],[0,0,0,0,3.937542430414121,29.237384023534737,0,42.74722787961077,0,0,24.07784566644037],[15.035140562248996,48.04216867469879,17.92168674698795,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,19.001004016064257]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility81percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,18.218541708745708,0,0,0,0,81.7814582912543],[0,0,0,0,3.937542430414121,29.237384023534737,0,42.74722787961077,0,0,24.07784566644037],[15.035140562248996,48.04216867469879,17.92168674698795,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,19.001004016064257]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility69.35percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,18.218541708745708,0,0,0,0,81.7814582912543],[0,0,0,0,3.937542430414121,29.237384023534737,0,42.74722787961077,0,0,24.07784566644037],[15.035140562248996,48.04216867469879,17.92168674698795,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,19.001004016064257]]
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. “Sotaquira — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-15763. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.