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Bolivar — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Bolivar / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19100

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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
Bolivar / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-c16b416a15e74866e01139c6
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 COLOMBIANO59.9%
  • PACTO HISTORICO34.0%
  • COALICION PARTIDO CONSERVADOR - ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE "ASI"6.0%
Results for event-488953484ce50490ec38c50d
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Sandra Liliana Rodriguez Dorado18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202310,03759.9%UnknownRecorded
PACTO HISTORICO · Harold Humberto Ruiz20231615colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20235,69734%UnknownRecorded
COALICION PARTIDO CONSERVADOR - ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE "ASI" · Esau Perafan Perez20230276colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,0136%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE52.8%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO18.7%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA14.8%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI12.1%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO1.5%
Results for event-a8e986f3cf7535749c2602e6
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Jorge Alberto Macias Rosero20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/20198,87152.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Leidy Danyelly Meneses Bolaños18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,14318.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA · Victor Armando Martinez Perafan20190033colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,48114.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Carlos Octavio Meza Sotelo19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,03812.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Hector German Gomez Daza20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/20192571.5%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE BOLIVAR-CAU. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO MAIS52.0%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO48.0%
Results for event-30ba91b6ceb79837bc17d287
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION ALCALDIA DE BOLIVAR-CAU. PARTIDO LIBERAL Y PARTIDO MAIS · Rodrigo Hernan Perez20150165colombia/S8164286948/20158,79252%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Carlos Octavio Meza Sotelo20030001colombia/S8164286948/20158,10248%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

0 (recorded zero)0–100 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=25.91508926971995, oldest_gap=4.084290280572986, previous_gap=34.1155449672424

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

41.21percentage 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=[[0,59.93312235027169,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,40.066877649728305],[0,18.719475878499107,0,1.5306730196545564,0,0,12.138177486599167,0,0,0,67.61167361524717],[0,0,0,47.95785485971351,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.04214514028649]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

46.43percentage 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=[[0,59.93312235027169,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,40.066877649728305],[0,18.719475878499107,0,1.5306730196545564,0,0,12.138177486599167,0,0,0,67.61167361524717],[0,0,0,47.95785485971351,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.04214514028649]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

43.82percentage 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=[[0,59.93312235027169,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,40.066877649728305],[0,18.719475878499107,0,1.5306730196545564,0,0,12.138177486599167,0,0,0,67.61167361524717],[0,0,0,47.95785485971351,0,0,0,0,0,0,52.04214514028649]]

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. “Bolivar — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19100. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.