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Marulanda — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Marulanda / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17446

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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
Marulanda / Caldas
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-ce6c6db6ecea822f439c448b
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

  • MARULANDA POR UN NUEVO RUMBO58.4%
  • MARULANDA SOMOS TODOS36.8%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO4.8%
Results for event-914dcc487bded03576d642ef
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MARULANDA POR UN NUEVO RUMBO · Leonardo Andres Giraldo Botero20231507colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202389158.4%UnknownRecorded
MARULANDA SOMOS TODOS · Jorge Eliecer Tabarez Villa20231508colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202356236.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Carmenza Escobar Montoya18490002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023734.8%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA47.5%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI36.5%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE14.2%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO1.9%
Results for event-78654dc6112a31abd8c145b6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA · Juan David Grajales Marulanda20180047colombia/S67eb704c85/201973847.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Leonardo Andres Giraldo Botero19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/201956736.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Jose Dorian Duque Giraldo20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/201922014.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Jose Ivan Perez Moreno18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019291.9%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE62.7%
  • JUNTOS PODEMOS MAS37.3%
Results for event-814858199ca54090cffdf8f5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Nicolas De Jesus Giraldo Gomez20130001colombia/S8164286948/20151,07662.7%UnknownRecorded
JUNTOS PODEMOS MAS · Ruth Elena Osorio Tovar20150147colombia/S8164286948/201564037.3%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

6.110–100 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=21.559633027522942, oldest_gap=25.407925407925404, previous_gap=11.003861003861005

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

50.64percentage 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=[[4.783748361730013,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.21625163827],[1.8661518661518661,0,0,0,14.157014157014157,0,36.486486486486484,0,0,0,47.49034749034749],[0,0,0,0,62.7039627039627,0,0,0,0,0,37.2960372960373]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

48.55percentage 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=[[4.783748361730013,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.21625163827],[1.8661518661518661,0,0,0,14.157014157014157,0,36.486486486486484,0,0,0,47.49034749034749],[0,0,0,0,62.7039627039627,0,0,0,0,0,37.2960372960373]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

49.6percentage 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=[[4.783748361730013,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,95.21625163827],[1.8661518661518661,0,0,0,14.157014157014157,0,36.486486486486484,0,0,0,47.49034749034749],[0,0,0,0,62.7039627039627,0,0,0,0,0,37.2960372960373]]

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. “Marulanda — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17446. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.