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Norcasia — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Norcasia / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17495

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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
Norcasia / Caldas
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
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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 LIBERAL COLOMBIANO42.6%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI24.1%
  • TODOS SOMOS NORCASIA23.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U6.0%
  • CEDE party code 202300014.0%
Results for event-d1214ff2e92a53236f6215ad
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Diego Fernando Olarte Alzate18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,77942.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Cristian Carrillo Ortiz19910006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,00424.1%UnknownRecorded
TODOS SOMOS NORCASIA · Juan Gabriel Parra Henao20232052colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202397423.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Edicson Soto Mejia20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232516%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230001 · Dairo Stiven Lozano Palacios20230001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231654%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U44.0%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO32.5%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE23.5%
Results for event-162de0891d0ddc4cb9c8f2e6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Jose Yonatan Manrique Garzon20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,64544%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Jesus Alberto Villegas Orozco18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,21632.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Olga Lucia Ordoñez Clavijo20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/201987723.5%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO56.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U42.1%
  • PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE1.6%
Results for event-0e874f62f14f4e784156a4bf
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Wilmar Herrera Gallego18480001colombia/S8164286948/20152,05156.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Jorge Alberto Cardona Ramirez20050002colombia/S8164286948/20151,53342.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Amanda Lucia Peña Gamboa20130001colombia/S8164286948/2015601.6%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

19.960–100 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=18.571770908219506, oldest_gap=14.21514818880351, previous_gap=11.476725521669344

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

37.99percentage 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=[[0,42.63120057512581,6.014857416726576,0,0,0,24.059429666906304,0,0,0,27.29451234124131],[0,32.530765115034775,44.00749063670412,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.461744248261102],[0,56.28430296377607,42.06915477497256,0,1.646542261251372,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.4percentage 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=[[0,42.63120057512581,6.014857416726576,0,0,0,24.059429666906304,0,0,0,27.29451234124131],[0,32.530765115034775,44.00749063670412,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.461744248261102],[0,56.28430296377607,42.06915477497256,0,1.646542261251372,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

31.7percentage 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: 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=[[0,42.63120057512581,6.014857416726576,0,0,0,24.059429666906304,0,0,0,27.29451234124131],[0,32.530765115034775,44.00749063670412,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,23.461744248261102],[0,56.28430296377607,42.06915477497256,0,1.646542261251372,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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. “Norcasia — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17495. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.