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Mercaderes — Mayor
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Colombia · Mercaderes / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19450
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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
- Mercaderes / Cauca
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-d7b905d054bba01aa5e7d2a8
- 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 RENACIENTE46.0%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE29.2%
- PACTO HISTORICO-COLOMBIA PUEDE15.4%
- CEDE party code 202300069.4%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Edilson Gomez Balanta | 20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 4,143 | 46% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Franklin Hernan Pinta Patiño | 20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 2,631 | 29.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PACTO HISTORICO-COLOMBIA PUEDE · Camilo Lopez Perez | 20230357colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,384 | 15.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| CEDE party code 20230006 · Franklin Alexander Giron Vasquez | 20230006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 845 | 9.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO58.5%
- PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO34.7%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE MERCADERES-CAU. "DIGNIDAD Y BIENESTAR PARA LA GENTE"6.8%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Fernando Albeiro Diaz Salamanca | 18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 5,010 | 58.5% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Franklin Alexander Giron Vasquez | 20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 2,970 | 34.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE MERCADERES-CAU. "DIGNIDAD Y BIENESTAR PARA LA GENTE" · Camilo Lopez Perez | 20191285colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 578 | 6.8% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U52.0%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE39.1%
- PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO8.9%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Alcy Muñoz Perdomo | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 4,411 | 52% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Arnubia Montilla Benitez | 20090002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 3,319 | 39.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Franklin Alexander Giron Vasquez | 20030001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 752 | 8.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI7.420–100 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=16.79440186604465, oldest_gap=12.874322093845791, previous_gap=23.837345174106105
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility93.25percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,29.223592135954682,0,0,0,0,70.77640786404531],[58.54171535405469,0,0,34.70437017994858,0,0,0,0,0,0,6.753914465996728],[0,0,52.00424428200896,8.86583352982787,0,39.12992218816317,0,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility91.13percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,29.223592135954682,0,0,0,0,70.77640786404531],[58.54171535405469,0,0,34.70437017994858,0,0,0,0,0,0,6.753914465996728],[0,0,52.00424428200896,8.86583352982787,0,39.12992218816317,0,0,0,0,0]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility92.19percentage 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=[[0,0,0,0,0,29.223592135954682,0,0,0,0,70.77640786404531],[58.54171535405469,0,0,34.70437017994858,0,0,0,0,0,0,6.753914465996728],[0,0,52.00424428200896,8.86583352982787,0,39.12992218816317,0,0,0,0,0]]
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. “Mercaderes — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19450. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.