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Office briefing

Buenos Aires — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Buenos Aires / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19110

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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
Buenos Aires / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-3e8100c2d75184206cdb5097
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

  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA50.6%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE32.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS15.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO1.5%
Results for event-f546e138a022f46d761bb7da
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA · Pablo Cesar Peña20180047colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20234,98450.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Urdely Carabali Carbonero20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233,18132.3%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Victor Hugo Solis Ambuila20130002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,53115.5%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · Esai Aponza Charrupi19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231501.5%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U50.8%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO42.5%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS6.7%
Results for event-00d94d0fe83f2dde9899acce
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Oscar Eduin Lopez Sanchez20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20194,95350.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Adan Diaz Sandoval18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20194,14942.5%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Wiesner Cortes Mina20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/20196506.7%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO36.6%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U33.3%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO30.1%
Results for event-3834f8f0b9a702bb7c631486
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Urdely Carabali Carbonero20030001colombia/S8164286948/20153,27536.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Oscar Eduin Lopez Sanchez20050002colombia/S8164286948/20152,97533.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Adan Diaz Sandoval18480001colombia/S8164286948/20152,69130.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

31.020–100 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=18.31200487507617, oldest_gap=3.355329381500951, previous_gap=8.244462674323216

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

93.33percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15.549461710339225,0,0,84.45053828966077],[0,42.54511894995898,50.7895816242822,0,0,0,0,6.6652994257588185,0,0,0],[0,30.097304552063527,33.27368303321776,36.62901241471871,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.63percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15.549461710339225,0,0,84.45053828966077],[0,42.54511894995898,50.7895816242822,0,0,0,0,6.6652994257588185,0,0,0],[0,30.097304552063527,33.27368303321776,36.62901241471871,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

64.98percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,15.549461710339225,0,0,84.45053828966077],[0,42.54511894995898,50.7895816242822,0,0,0,0,6.6652994257588185,0,0,0],[0,30.097304552063527,33.27368303321776,36.62901241471871,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]

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. “Buenos Aires — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19110. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.