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Office briefing

Belalcazar — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Belalcazar / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17088

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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
Belalcazar / Caldas
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-0fac17fc255d94ca1fb62229
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

  • BELALCAZAR MAS SOCIAL.58.0%
  • AVANZANDO JUNTOS POR EL BELALCAZAR QUE SOÑAMOS42.0%
Results for event-92b625786361d918401029a4
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
BELALCAZAR MAS SOCIAL. · Fabio Andres Ramirez Giraldo20230159colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233,39458%UnknownRecorded
AVANZANDO JUNTOS POR EL BELALCAZAR QUE SOÑAMOS · Javier Alexander Lopez Hincapie20230152colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,45742%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE BELALCAZAR-CAL. PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO Y PARTIDO LIBERAL - "JUNTOS POR BELALCAZAR"61.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U39.0%
Results for event-01a39be7543363244f264a47
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION ALCALDIA DE BELALCAZAR-CAL. PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO Y PARTIDO LIBERAL - "JUNTOS POR BELALCAZAR" · Gloria Carmenza Ospina Montes20191905colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,46861%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Carlos Arturo Salazar Hincapie20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,21539%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U47.4%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE34.6%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE14.9%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO2.9%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO0.2%
Results for event-836c85f406ffcb9c980bbe9b
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Jahir De Jesus Alvarez20050002colombia/S8164286948/20152,79147.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Gloria Carmenza Ospina Montes20130001colombia/S8164286948/20152,03634.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Jorge Alberto Sanchez Osorio20090002colombia/S8164286948/201587914.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Gabriel Osorio Buitrago18480001colombia/S8164286948/20151682.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Andres Alberto Lopez Arango18490002colombia/S8164286948/2015130.2%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

12.470–100 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=16.014356520252946, oldest_gap=12.824868354000344, previous_gap=22.048213971493922

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,[0,0,38.97589301425304,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,61.02410698574696],[0.22082554781722438,2.853745541022592,47.409546458297946,0,34.5846781042976,14.931204348564634,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

61.02percentage 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,[0,0,38.97589301425304,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,61.02410698574696],[0.22082554781722438,2.853745541022592,47.409546458297946,0,34.5846781042976,14.931204348564634,0,0,0,0,0]]

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,[0,0,38.97589301425304,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,61.02410698574696],[0.22082554781722438,2.853745541022592,47.409546458297946,0,34.5846781042976,14.931204348564634,0,0,0,0,0]]

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. “Belalcazar — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17088. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.