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Office briefing

Purace (Coconuco) — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Purace (Coconuco) / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19585

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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
Purace (Coconuco) / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-78c9a5449bf1980dc88148dc
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

  • CEDE party code 2023000535.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS19.6%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO17.5%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI14.2%
  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE12.6%
  • PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD0.9%
Results for event-69127d5cb2d78f0b0afc0c38
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
CEDE party code 20230005 · Jorge Armando Andrade Molano20230005colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,23635.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Jesus Reinel Torres20130002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,24519.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Luiyi Mera Valencia18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,11117.5%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Manuel Agustin Urrutia Manquillo19910006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202390114.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Ruby Norayda Vasquez Ceron20180046colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202380312.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO POLITICO DIGNIDAD · Royber Galy Melenje Sauca20200001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023600.9%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO35.8%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS24.0%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U23.7%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI15.6%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE0.8%
Results for event-3bcf491fc037a49f24f4c4a5
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Victor Raul Bonilla Vasquez20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,23735.8%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Jorge Armando Andrade Molano20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,50024%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Gustavo Adolfo Valencia Garcia20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,48223.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Olinto Rubiel Mazabuel Quilindo19910006colombia/S67eb704c85/201997515.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Antonio Jose Lopez Garcia20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/2019490.8%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO53.9%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI34.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS11.9%
Results for event-0f4399e25801313dad176c53
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Jairo Rolando Certuche Garces20030001colombia/S8164286948/20152,90053.9%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Eider Arnulfo Zambrano Chilito19910006colombia/S8164286948/20151,84034.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Humberto Molano Hoyos20130002colombia/S8164286948/201564211.9%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

25.670–100 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=15.591567023285087, oldest_gap=19.69528056484578, previous_gap=11.805221848470286

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

66.24percentage 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=[[0,17.47954688483323,0,0,0,0,14.175582127123977,19.587791063561987,0,0,48.757079924480806],[0,0,23.738587217683804,35.832131987826365,0,0.7848790645522986,15.617491590581452,24.02691013935608,0,0,0],[0,0,0,53.88331475287997,0,0,34.18803418803419,11.928651059085842,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

36.62percentage 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=[[0,17.47954688483323,0,0,0,0,14.175582127123977,19.587791063561987,0,0,48.757079924480806],[0,0,23.738587217683804,35.832131987826365,0,0.7848790645522986,15.617491590581452,24.02691013935608,0,0,0],[0,0,0,53.88331475287997,0,0,34.18803418803419,11.928651059085842,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

51.43percentage 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: 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=[[0,17.47954688483323,0,0,0,0,14.175582127123977,19.587791063561987,0,0,48.757079924480806],[0,0,23.738587217683804,35.832131987826365,0,0.7848790645522986,15.617491590581452,24.02691013935608,0,0,0],[0,0,0,53.88331475287997,0,0,34.18803418803419,11.928651059085842,0,0,0]]

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. “Purace (Coconuco) — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19585. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.