State or region
Deputy
- Spanish: Diputado
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Elected by list proportional representation across the whole department (each party chooses a closed list or an open list with a preferential vote, Constitution art. 262), seats allocated by the cifra repartidora method among lists above the legal threshold (Constitution arts. 263, 299); four-year term. Seat count set for 2024-2027 by Decreto 1312 de 2023.
- Seats
- 16
Next vote
Sources
- secretariasenado.gov.co · checked Secretaría General del Senado, Constitución Política de Colombia 1991, art. 262 (as amended by Acto Legislativo 2 de 2015), read 2026-10-12: each party or movement may opt for the preferential vote, so lists are not necessarily closed (corrects "closed-list"). For: Deputy
- funcionpublica.gov.co · checked Presidencia de la República / Ministerio del Interior, Decreto 1312 de 2023 (10 Aug 2023), read 2026-10-12: number of deputies per department for 2024-2027. For: Deputy
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitución Política de Colombia 1991 (Constitute Project Spanish text), read 2026-10-12: governor four-year elected term and no immediate re-election (art. 303); assembly 11-31 members (art. 299); 45 Bogotá councillors and mayor (art. 323); cifra repartidora (art. 263). For: Deputy
- constituteproject.org · checked Spanish official names of the bodies as used in the Constitution (Gobernación, Asamblea Departamental, Concejo), read 2026-10-12. For: Deputy in Spanish
- www1.funcionpublica.gov.co · checked Congreso de la República, Ley 163 de 1994 (Diario Oficial 41.523, 1994-09-02), art. 1 "FECHA DE ELECCIONES", via Función Pública Gestor Normativo, read 2026-10-12: governors, mayors, deputies and councillors are elected on the last Sunday of October. For: General election, October 31, 2027
- elpais.com.co · checked El País Cali, Elecciones de 2027: fechas clave, read 2026-10-12: regional elections scheduled 2027-10-31, terms end 2027-12-31; Vanguardia 2026-10-08 says Registraduría has not confirmed the calendar. Fallback: press, because no official calendar published yet. For: General election, October 31, 2027
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