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Office briefing

Santander De Quilichao — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Santander De Quilichao / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19698

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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
Santander De Quilichao / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-27dc97481df76ae005b5155f
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

  • QUILICHAO SOMOS TODOS31.1%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE30.7%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U28.7%
  • PACTO HISTORICO5.3%
  • SI, EL PODER DE LA GENTE4.0%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO0.3%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI0.1%
Results for event-69005fe6eea754f28f842665
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
QUILICHAO SOMOS TODOS · Luis Eduardo Grijalba Muñoz20231834colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202313,69331.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Francisco Elias Figueroa20090002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202313,52530.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Luis Andres Sadovnik Rojas20050002colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202312,62428.7%UnknownRecorded
PACTO HISTORICO · Jesus Ariel Yule Cerquera20231615colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232,3175.3%UnknownRecorded
SI, EL PODER DE LA GENTE · Fabian Andres Valencia20231951colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,7434%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · John Edwin Vargas Calambas18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231130.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Luis Alfonso Trujillo Fernandez19910006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023300.1%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO65.3%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U21.3%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA7.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS4.0%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO2.2%
Results for event-bff3b9f6a32173aee18fe7b0
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Lucy Amparo Guzman Gonzalez18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/201927,47565.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Luis Andres Sadovnik Rojas20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20198,94221.3%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AFROCOLOMBIANA - ADA - MOVIMIENTO ALIANZA DEMOCRATICA AMPLIA · Luis Alfonso Trujillo Fernandez20180047colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,0187.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Oscar Javier Consuegra Arce20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,6814%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Andres Fernando Aroka Bermudez18490002colombia/S67eb704c85/20199272.2%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • SIENTE A QUILICHAO AMA TU TIERRA51.4%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO48.3%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE0.3%
Results for event-ac70e6f59372c2e53f157490
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
SIENTE A QUILICHAO AMA TU TIERRA · Alvaro Hernando Mendoza Bermudez20150175colombia/S8164286948/201521,06751.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Lucy Amparo Guzman Gonzalez18480001colombia/S8164286948/201519,81048.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Ricardo Alfredo Cifuentes Guzman20090002colombia/S8164286948/20151060.3%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

31.20–100 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=0.38142808491315705, oldest_gap=3.067125393455825, previous_gap=44.08105986727873

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

71.3percentage 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=[[0,0.2565557952094449,28.66159609490294,0,0,30.70723124077648,0.0681121580202066,0,0,0,40.30650471109094],[2.204885474395262,65.34976095901814,21.26870109173941,0,0,0,0,3.9982874675927027,0,0,7.178365007254477],[0,48.33711538930776,0,0,0,0.25864382792865337,0,0,0,0,51.40424078276359]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

44.48percentage 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=[[0,0.2565557952094449,28.66159609490294,0,0,30.70723124077648,0.0681121580202066,0,0,0,40.30650471109094],[2.204885474395262,65.34976095901814,21.26870109173941,0,0,0,0,3.9982874675927027,0,0,7.178365007254477],[0,48.33711538930776,0,0,0,0.25864382792865337,0,0,0,0,51.40424078276359]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

57.89percentage 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=[[0,0.2565557952094449,28.66159609490294,0,0,30.70723124077648,0.0681121580202066,0,0,0,40.30650471109094],[2.204885474395262,65.34976095901814,21.26870109173941,0,0,0,0,3.9982874675927027,0,0,7.178365007254477],[0,48.33711538930776,0,0,0,0.25864382792865337,0,0,0,0,51.40424078276359]]

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. “Santander De Quilichao — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19698. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.