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Filadelfia — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Filadelfia / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17272

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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
Filadelfia / Caldas
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-43c7f96eee809956eebcd02b
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

  • CEDE party code 2023000441.7%
  • JUNTOS POR FILADELFIA32.4%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO17.2%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE8.1%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE0.6%
Results for event-5255eeb5fd85438e6dc76b64
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CEDE party code 20230004 · Oscar Eduardo Alzate Cano20230004colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,40241.7%UnknownRecorded
JUNTOS POR FILADELFIA · German Zuluaga Duque20231403colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,86532.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Daniel Ricardo Gaviria Alzate18490002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202399117.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Gustavo Andres Murillo Franco20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20234658.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Jaime Alberto Orozco Castro20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023340.6%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U45.5%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO43.1%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO8.8%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE1.8%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE0.8%
Results for event-8ff01eb8689da19ead8eabb1
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Willian Jairo Noreña Vasquez20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,54945.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Maria Enidia Rios Naranjo18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,41843.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Jaime Alberto Gaviria Ramos18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20194938.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Jhony Leandro Villada Rincon20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191021.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Jaime Alberto Orozco Castro20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/2019430.8%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U55.4%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO44.3%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA0.3%
Results for event-8899cb95e1c944ef6a7fec21
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · German Zuluaga Duque20050002colombia/S8164286948/20153,20055.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Maria Enidia Rios Naranjo18480001colombia/S8164286948/20152,56044.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Luis Alcides Cardona Zuluaga20090001colombia/S8164286948/2015170.3%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

62.970–100 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=9.327774882751434, oldest_gap=11.078414401938723, previous_gap=2.3371989295272044

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

88.62percentage 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=[[17.213826645822476,0,0,0,0,8.077123501823866,0,0,0,0,74.70904985235364],[8.7957181088314,43.14005352363961,45.47725245316681,0,0,1.8198037466547725,0,0,0,0,0.7671721677074042],[0,44.31365760775489,55.392072009693614,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2942703825514973]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

11.09percentage 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=[[17.213826645822476,0,0,0,0,8.077123501823866,0,0,0,0,74.70904985235364],[8.7957181088314,43.14005352363961,45.47725245316681,0,0,1.8198037466547725,0,0,0,0,0.7671721677074042],[0,44.31365760775489,55.392072009693614,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2942703825514973]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.85percentage 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=[[17.213826645822476,0,0,0,0,8.077123501823866,0,0,0,0,74.70904985235364],[8.7957181088314,43.14005352363961,45.47725245316681,0,0,1.8198037466547725,0,0,0,0,0.7671721677074042],[0,44.31365760775489,55.392072009693614,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2942703825514973]]

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. “Filadelfia — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17272. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.