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Office briefing

Guapi — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Guapi / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19318

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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
Guapi / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-9e5f03fd619a3094572ac29e
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 COLOMBIA RENACIENTE46.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA24.0%
  • CEDE party code 2023000524.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO2.9%
  • PARTIDO POLITICO TODOS SOMOS COLOMBIA0.9%
  • CEDE party code 202300020.5%
  • PACTO HISTORICO COLOMBIA PUEDE0.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U0.3%
  • PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD0.2%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO0.2%
  • INDEPENDIENTES0.1%
  • FUERZA CIUDADANA LA FUERZA DEL CAMBIO0.1%
  • CEDE party code 202300030.1%
  • CEDE party code 202300060.0%
Results for event-d7b27f47b7019a3870f47cda
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Gil Milena Grueso Romero20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20234,87046.4%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA · Danny Eudoxio Prado Granja20180047colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,52124%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230005 · Jaime Portocarrero Banguera20230005colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,51324%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · Antonio Montaño Orobio19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233042.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO POLITICO TODOS SOMOS COLOMBIA · Eustaquio Carabali Caicedo20170002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023900.9%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230002 · Merino Gamboa Sinisterra20230002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023500.5%UnknownRecorded
PACTO HISTORICO COLOMBIA PUEDE · Maria Fernanda Avila Castillo20231623colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023340.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Victor Oswaldo Sinisterra Ruiz20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023330.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD · Mary Luz Ante Orobio20200001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023260.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Walter Hurtado Montaño18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023160.2%UnknownRecorded
INDEPENDIENTES · Gerardo Bazan Orobio20190087colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023150.1%UnknownRecorded
FUERZA CIUDADANA LA FUERZA DEL CAMBIO · Teodoro Lerma Aragon20150388colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023110.1%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230003 · Hector Cuero Montaño20230003colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202360.1%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230006 · Jesus Emilio Hurtado Moreno20230006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202330%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE GUAPI-CAU. PARTIDO FARC - PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA Y POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO - "FRENTE AMPLIO POR GUAPI"43.9%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO38.6%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U7.7%
  • MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO4.6%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE4.5%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI0.4%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO0.2%
Results for event-4b94e409c6f7aed1a18f43cc
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
COALICION ALCALDIA DE GUAPI-CAU. PARTIDO FARC - PARTIDO COLOMBIA HUMANA Y UNION PATRIOTICA Y POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO - "FRENTE AMPLIO POR GUAPI" · Plutarco Marino Grueso Obregon20191281colombia/S67eb704c85/20194,38743.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Eustaquio Carabali Caicedo18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,85938.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Victor Oswaldo Sinisterra Ruiz20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20197687.7%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO · Mary Luz Ante Orobio19910001colombia/S67eb704c85/20194574.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Ferney Caicedo20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/20194524.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Antonio Montaño Orobio19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/2019410.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Jhonny Caicedo Montaño18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019220.2%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U35.6%
  • UNION PATRIOTICA - UP20.0%
  • POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO15.7%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI15.0%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA11.4%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS1.6%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO0.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO0.2%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO0.1%
Results for event-d0515458ba5034e4482b83f2
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Danny Eudoxio Prado Granja20050002colombia/S8164286948/20153,72835.6%UnknownRecorded
UNION PATRIOTICA - UP · Plutarco Marino Grueso Obregon19850001colombia/S8164286948/20152,09020%UnknownRecorded
POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO · Hugo Ezequiel Perlaza Ortiz20050001colombia/S8164286948/20151,64315.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Antonio Montaño Orobio19910006colombia/S8164286948/20151,57515%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Jesus Emilio Hurtado Moreno20090001colombia/S8164286948/20151,19511.4%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Mary Luz Ante Orobio20130002colombia/S8164286948/20151711.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Eduardo Solis Grueso18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015330.3%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO · Liborio Torres Obregon19910001colombia/S8164286948/2015190.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Miguel Antonio Ocoro Ortiz18490002colombia/S8164286948/2015120.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

17.080–100 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=22.388486465878763, oldest_gap=15.650678387158418, previous_gap=5.28740236330863

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

51.08percentage 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=[[0,0.15249714067861228,0.3145253526496378,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99.53297750667176],[0.22030843180452633,38.64410174243942,7.690767073903465,0,0,0,0.4105748047266173,0,0,4.57640696975766,48.45784097736831],[0.11465698452130708,0.3153067074335945,35.62010319128607,0,0,0,15.048729218421556,1.6338620294286261,15.698452130708962,0.18154022549206955,31.387349512707814]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

59.9percentage 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=[[0,0.15249714067861228,0.3145253526496378,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99.53297750667176],[0.22030843180452633,38.64410174243942,7.690767073903465,0,0,0,0.4105748047266173,0,0,4.57640696975766,48.45784097736831],[0.11465698452130708,0.3153067074335945,35.62010319128607,0,0,0,15.048729218421556,1.6338620294286261,15.698452130708962,0.18154022549206955,31.387349512707814]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

55.49percentage 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=[[0,0.15249714067861228,0.3145253526496378,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,99.53297750667176],[0.22030843180452633,38.64410174243942,7.690767073903465,0,0,0,0.4105748047266173,0,0,4.57640696975766,48.45784097736831],[0.11465698452130708,0.3153067074335945,35.62010319128607,0,0,0,15.048729218421556,1.6338620294286261,15.698452130708962,0.18154022549206955,31.387349512707814]]

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. “Guapi — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19318. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.