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Padilla — Mayor
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Colombia · Padilla / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19513
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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
- Padilla / Cauca
- Next election
- 2027-10-31
- Linked upcoming event
- next-387c656cc7f7f41c95aa0732
- 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 COLOMBIANO34.4%
- MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO15.7%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U14.4%
- CEDE party code 2023000512.4%
- PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE11.3%
- PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO8.0%
- MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA2.1%
- POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO1.2%
- MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA0.7%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Aide Romero Gonzalias | 18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 1,189 | 34.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO NUEVO LIBERALISMO · Diego Luis Loboa Carabali | 19790001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 541 | 15.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Ramon Orlando Gomez Vidal | 20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 496 | 14.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| CEDE party code 20230005 · Marvin Mina | 20230005colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 428 | 12.4% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Elkin Fary Possu Mesa | 20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 389 | 11.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Efren Vasquez Uzuriaga | 20030001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 275 | 8% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA · Farley Viveros Ramos | 20180047colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 72 | 2.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| POLO DEMOCRATICO ALTERNATIVO · Deyanira Gonzalias Rodallega | 20050001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 40 | 1.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA · Nelly Estella Gonzalez Machado | 19690001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023 | 24 | 0.7% | Unknown | Recorded |
2019
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO COLOMBIA JUSTA LIBRES45.0%
- COALICION ALCALDIA DE PADILLA-CAU. "PARA SEGUIR AVANZANDO"31.3%
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO16.9%
- MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS4.3%
- PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE0.9%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U0.9%
- MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO0.5%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE0.1%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO COLOMBIA JUSTA LIBRES · Cristobal Morales Mazo | 20170001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 2,212 | 45% | Unknown | Recorded |
| COALICION ALCALDIA DE PADILLA-CAU. "PARA SEGUIR AVANZANDO" · Armando Mina Mena | 20191286colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 1,535 | 31.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Aide Romero Gonzalias | 18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 832 | 16.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Raul Ortiz Gonzalez | 20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 210 | 4.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO CENTRO DEMOCRATICO - MANO FIRME CORAZON GRANDE · Carlos Adolfo Andrade Narvaez | 20130001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 45 | 0.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Hamilson Gonzalez Velasco | 20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 44 | 0.9% | Unknown | Recorded |
| MOVIMIENTO AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE COLOMBIA - AICO · Segundo Ernesto Caicedo | 19910001colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 26 | 0.5% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Milton Marino Valencia Cardenas | 20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019 | 7 | 0.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
2015
Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes
- PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO61.0%
- PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U24.3%
- PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI11.1%
- PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO3.2%
- PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA0.3%
| Label / candidate | Party code | Votes | Share | Seats | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Victor Hugo Vidal Aguilar | 20030001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 2,777 | 61% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Ana Celix Gomez Romero | 20050002colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 1,108 | 24.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Raul Ortiz Gonzalez | 19910006colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 507 | 11.1% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Amanda Aguilar Balanta | 18480001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 147 | 3.2% | Unknown | Recorded |
| PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Robinson Sandoval Diaz | 20090001colombia/S8164286948/2015 | 15 | 0.3% | Unknown | Recorded |
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
Provisional imported-series CI4.710–100 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=18.760856977417482, oldest_gap=36.649099692577956, previous_gap=13.785379759723071
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: 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=[[0,34.42385639837869,14.360162130862768,7.961783439490445,0,0,0,0,1.1580775911986103,0,42.09612044006948],[0,16.94155976379556,0.8959478721238037,0,0.916310323762981,0.1425371614742415,0,4.276114844227245,0,0.5294237426186112,76.29810629199756],[0,3.227931488801054,24.330259112867807,60.97935880544576,0,0,11.133069828722002,0,0,0,0.32938076416337286]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility95.55percentage 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=[[0,34.42385639837869,14.360162130862768,7.961783439490445,0,0,0,0,1.1580775911986103,0,42.09612044006948],[0,16.94155976379556,0.8959478721238037,0,0.916310323762981,0.1425371614742415,0,4.276114844227245,0,0.5294237426186112,76.29810629199756],[0,3.227931488801054,24.330259112867807,60.97935880544576,0,0,11.133069828722002,0,0,0,0.32938076416337286]]
pedersen volatility
Provisional volatility67.81percentage 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=[[0,34.42385639837869,14.360162130862768,7.961783439490445,0,0,0,0,1.1580775911986103,0,42.09612044006948],[0,16.94155976379556,0.8959478721238037,0,0.916310323762981,0.1425371614742415,0,4.276114844227245,0,0.5294237426186112,76.29810629199756],[0,3.227931488801054,24.330259112867807,60.97935880544576,0,0,11.133069828722002,0,0,0,0.32938076416337286]]
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. “Padilla — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19513. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.