Office briefing
Palestina — Mayor
Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.
Colombia · Palestina / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17524
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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
- Palestina / Caldas
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-bf58eee24cfc5f2de8fe9faa
- 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 2023000447.0%
- CONSTRUYENDO UNA PALESTINA PARA TODOS37.8%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE14.1%
- MOVIMIENTO NUEVA FUERZA DEMOCRATICA0.8%
- MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA0.3%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEDE party code 20230004 · Alvaro Andres Osorio Valencia | 20230004colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 3,830 | 47% | Unknown | Recorded |
| CONSTRUYENDO UNA PALESTINA PARA TODOS · Elber Armando Ruiz Posso | 20231036colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 3,083 | 37.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Julio Cesar Soto Gallego | 20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,148 | 14.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO NUEVA FUERZA DEMOCRATICA · Orlando Correa Henao | 19900002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 62 | 0.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA · Jose Antonio Sarmiento Osorio | 19690001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 27 | 0.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U34.0%
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO30.4%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE PALESTINA-CAL. MOVIMIENTO JUNTOS Y ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA ADA - "JUNTOS HAGAMOS HISTORIA"19.4%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE8.3%
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO4.1%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI3.8%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Mauricio Jaramillo Martinez | 20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 2,583 | 34% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Mauricio Velasquez Meza | 18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 2,308 | 30.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE PALESTINA-CAL. MOVIMIENTO JUNTOS Y ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA ADA - "JUNTOS HAGAMOS HISTORIA" · Elber Armando Ruiz Posso | 20190543colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,478 | 19.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Hector William Jaramillo Duque | 20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 632 | 8.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Luis Felipe Valencia Gil | 18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 311 | 4.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Diego Alejandro Tapasco Lopez | 19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 290 | 3.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U49.6%
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO36.3%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE12.8%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI1.3%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Mauricio Jaramillo Martinez | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 3,767 | 49.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Jose Ancizar Hernandez | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 2,761 | 36.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Juan Felipe Ruiz Posso | 20130001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 974 | 12.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Edgar Moreno Velez | 19910006colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 100 | 1.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI60.460–100 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=9.165644171779142, oldest_gap=13.233359642199424, previous_gap=3.6174690870823483
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility72.24percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,14.085889570552148,0,0,0,0,85.91411042944786],[4.091028676664036,30.360431465403842,33.97790055248619,0,0,8.31360168376743,3.8147855827413837,0,0,0,19.44225203893712],[0,36.31938963430676,49.552749276506184,0,12.812417784793475,0,1.3154433043935807,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility34.35percentage 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: 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,14.085889570552148,0,0,0,0,85.91411042944786],[4.091028676664036,30.360431465403842,33.97790055248619,0,0,8.31360168376743,3.8147855827413837,0,0,0,19.44225203893712],[0,36.31938963430676,49.552749276506184,0,12.812417784793475,0,1.3154433043935807,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility53.3percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,14.085889570552148,0,0,0,0,85.91411042944786],[4.091028676664036,30.360431465403842,33.97790055248619,0,0,8.31360168376743,3.8147855827413837,0,0,0,19.44225203893712],[0,36.31938963430676,49.552749276506184,0,12.812417784793475,0,1.3154433043935807,0,0,0,0]]
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
- 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. “Palestina — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17524. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.