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Office briefing

Santa Rosa — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Santa Rosa / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19701

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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
Santa Rosa / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-9e0f8db1a4d2e2a010269519
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 COLOMBIANO35.0%
  • AVANCEMOS SANTA ROSA31.5%
  • CEDE party code 2023000519.3%
  • PACTO HISTORICO COLOMBIA PUEDE14.1%
Results for event-93204252983a4dee887e82c3
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Eduardo Alfredo Jimenez Bambague18480001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20231,09835%UnknownRecorded
AVANCEMOS SANTA ROSA · Nelson Alban Erazo Gomez20230144colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202398831.5%UnknownRecorded
CEDE party code 20230005 · Rofer Jimenez Bermeo20230005colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202360619.3%UnknownRecorded
PACTO HISTORICO COLOMBIA PUEDE · Geovanny Homero Gomez Iles20231623colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202344314.1%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U41.7%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO32.8%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE15.4%
  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO10.1%
Results for event-6f4722a18c998aeb9ed1a677
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Diego Andres Ortiz Bambague20050002colombia/S67eb704c85/20191,24141.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Gildardo Alberto Ruiz Bambague20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/201997732.8%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA VERDE · Jaime Jair Zambrano Otaya20090002colombia/S67eb704c85/201946015.4%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Duvan Hernando Pulido Montenegro18480001colombia/S67eb704c85/201930010.1%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U44.2%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO32.8%
  • MUJER CON SENTIDO SOCIAL22.7%
  • PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO0.3%
  • PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA0.1%
Results for event-36e9d9f050b8dba83336446a
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Jaime Alberto Urrutia Joaqui20050002colombia/S8164286948/20151,22244.2%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · Gildardo Alberto Ruiz Bambague20030001colombia/S8164286948/201590732.8%UnknownRecorded
MUJER CON SENTIDO SOCIAL · Zuly Viviana Caicedo Macias20150176colombia/S8164286948/201562722.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CONSERVADOR COLOMBIANO · Sabas Quinayas Botina18490002colombia/S8164286948/201570.3%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO OPCION CIUDADANA · Albeiro Pizo Camayo20090001colombia/S8164286948/201520.1%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

70.480–100 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=3.5087719298245617, oldest_gap=11.392405063291136, previous_gap=8.865010073875084

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

89.93percentage 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=[[0,35.02392344497608,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,64.97607655502392],[0,10.073875083948959,41.67226326393553,32.80725319006044,0,15.446608462055071,0,0,0,0,0],[0.25316455696202533,0,44.19529837251356,32.802893309222426,0,0,0,0,0,0,22.748643761301988]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

25.52percentage 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=[[0,35.02392344497608,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,64.97607655502392],[0,10.073875083948959,41.67226326393553,32.80725319006044,0,15.446608462055071,0,0,0,0,0],[0.25316455696202533,0,44.19529837251356,32.802893309222426,0,0,0,0,0,0,22.748643761301988]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

57.73percentage 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=[[0,35.02392344497608,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,64.97607655502392],[0,10.073875083948959,41.67226326393553,32.80725319006044,0,15.446608462055071,0,0,0,0,0],[0.25316455696202533,0,44.19529837251356,32.802893309222426,0,0,0,0,0,0,22.748643761301988]]

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. “Santa Rosa — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19701. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.