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Risaralda — Mayor
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Colombia · Risaralda / Caldas · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-17616
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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
- Risaralda / Caldas
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-152c21a9d2184ad6e469542a
- 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 COLOMBIANO48.2%
- RISARALDA EN BUENAS MANOS48.1%
- MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO3.7%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Alejandro Betancur Morales | 18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 2,719 | 48.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| RISARALDA EN BUENAS MANOS · Hugo Fernando Moncada Cuervo | 20231882colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 2,716 | 48.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · German Augusto Velez Quiceno | 19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 210 | 3.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO51.9%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U24.6%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE20.6%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE RISARALDA-CAL. POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO - PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE Y MOVIMIENTO MAIS - "RISARALDA SOY YO"1.6%
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO0.8%
- PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE0.5%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Juan Carlos Cortes Bermudez | 18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 2,863 | 51.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Liliana Osorio Martinez | 20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,359 | 24.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Luis Eliecer Raigosa Ledesma | 20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,136 | 20.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE RISARALDA-CAL. POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO - PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE Y MOVIMIENTO MAIS - "RISARALDA SOY YO" · Ruben Dario Rendon Jaramillo | 20190545colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 87 | 1.6% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Jose Alexander Valencia Gallego | 18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 44 | 0.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Jose Fernando Gomez | 20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 27 | 0.5% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U51.0%
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO35.9%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE8.3%
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO4.8%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Juan Camilo Gallego Hoyos | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 2,870 | 51% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Mario Andres Echavarria Raigosa | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 2,021 | 35.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Fredy De Jesus Montealegre Corrales | 20130001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 468 | 8.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Conrado De Jesus Maldonado Arenas | 18490002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 273 | 4.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI51.40–100 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=0.05314437555358609, oldest_gap=15.074573863636367, previous_gap=27.26613488034808
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility49.77percentage 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=[[0,48.16651904340124,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,51.833480956598756],[0.7976794778825236,51.90355329949239,24.637418419144307,0,20.594633792603336,0,0,0,0,0,2.0667150108774477],[4.847301136363637,35.88423295454545,50.95880681818182,0,8.309659090909092,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility30.37percentage 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=[[0,48.16651904340124,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,51.833480956598756],[0.7976794778825236,51.90355329949239,24.637418419144307,0,20.594633792603336,0,0,0,0,0,2.0667150108774477],[4.847301136363637,35.88423295454545,50.95880681818182,0,8.309659090909092,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility40.07percentage 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=[[0,48.16651904340124,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,51.833480956598756],[0.7976794778825236,51.90355329949239,24.637418419144307,0,20.594633792603336,0,0,0,0,0,2.0667150108774477],[4.847301136363637,35.88423295454545,50.95880681818182,0,8.309659090909092,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
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
- 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. “Risaralda — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-17616. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.