2011 Colombian regional and municipal elections

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2011 Colombian regional and municipal elections
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  2007 October 30, 2011 (2011-10-30) 2015  
Registered30,615,748
Turnout17,480,981

The 2011 Colombian regional and municipal elections were held on 30 October 2011, to elect the governors of 32 departments and their Department Assemblies, the mayors of 1,099 municipalities and their city councils, and the Local Administrative Juntas (JAL) of national territories. [1]

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Background

Bogotá

The last mayor elected in Bogotá before the 2011 elections, Samuel Moreno, was suspended after a scandal over public works bids by Colombia's inspector general. He was replaced by an interim mayor, Clara López Obregón, until the 2011 elections. [2]

Pre-election violence

Leading up to the elections, 41 candidates were assassinated with many others receiving threats against their lives or those of their family. [1] [3] Then President Juan Manuel Santos deployed 300,000 troops in an effort to prevent violence against candidates and voters. [3] Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), a Colombian civil society network active in election monitoring training, created a crowdsourcing website, "Pilas con el Voto" (vote watch), [4] just prior to the elections to encourage both anonymous and non-anonymous reporting of election-related violence and irregularities in the voting itself and for publishing maps and analyses of these. [5]

Results

2011 Bogota Mayoral Race results by locality
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Gustavo Petro Bogota Mayor Election Results 2011.svg
2011 Bogotá Mayoral Race results by locality
  •   Enrique Peñalosa
  •   Gustavo Petro

Among the winners of the 2011 elections was future 34th President Gustavo Petro. Petro ran and won a campaign for the mayor of Bogotá, the nation's capital city, under the Progresistas Party against Green Party and Union Party for the People candidate, and former mayor, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño as well as independent Gina Parody.

The first independent mayor of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, successfully ran for Governor of Medellín's Antioquia Department under the Green Party.

A notable losing candidate was María Isabel Urrutia, an Olympic weightlifter who won Colombia's first gold medal in 2000; she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Cali under the Alternative Democratic Pole. She would later be appointed as Minister of Sports in Gustavo Petro's Cabinet.

A number of candidates for mayoral, municipal, and gubernatorial offices were alleged to have ties with paramilitaries. This included around 1 in 4 or 25% of the elected governors. [6]

Governorates by department

DepartmentCandidatePartyVotes%
Amazonas Carlos Arturo Rodríguez Celis Green Party 7.69633.75%
Rafael Elizalde Gómez Radical Change Party 6.45328,30%
Guillermo Marín TorresInclusion and Opportunities Movement4.67820,51%
Antioquia Sergio Fajardo Valderrama Green Party 925.95649.51%
Álvaro Vásquez Osorio Colombian Conservative Party 542.53329,00%
Carlos Mario Estrada Molina Union Party for the People 244.17913,05%
Arauca José Facundo Castillo Cisneros Union Party for the People 35.50644,48%
Carlos Eduardo Pinilla Ruiz Radical Change Party 23.39229,30%
Atlántico José Antonio Segebre Berardinelli Colombian Liberal Party 340.31246,62%
Jaime Alejandro Amín Hernández Union Party for the People 239.76132,86%
Bolívar Juan Carlos Gossain Roginini Colombian Liberal Party 273.62943.54%
Rosario Cecilia Ricardo Bray Union Party for the People 229.61636,54%
Dionisio Miranda Tejedor Alternative Democratic Pole 44.1727,02%
Boyacá Juan Carlos Granados Becerra Union Party for the People 280.27851.79%
Gonzalo Guarín Vivas Green Party 129.80923,98%
León Gioberto Barón Neira Colombian Conservative Party 103.04219,04%
Caldas Guido Echeverry Piedrahita Colombian Conservative Party 150.47042,82%
Gabriel Vallejo López Union Party for the People 142.23140,50%
Caquetá Victor Isidro Ramírez Loaiza Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 55.08445.81%
Harry Giovanny Gonzalez García Colombian Liberal Party 40.31233,52%
Nelcy Almario Rojas Colombian Conservative Party 8.5847,13%
Casanare Nelson Ricardo Marino VelandiaAfrolives Political Movements54.89035.69%
Jorge Elieser Prieto Riveros Green Party 25.21416,39%
José Alirio Guzmán Guzmán Radical Change Party 24.22715,175%
Efren Antonio Hernández Díaz National Integration Party 23.34215,18%
Cauca Temístocles Ortega Narvaez Independent Social Alliance 196.08145.94%
Juan Carlos López Castrillón Colombian Liberal Party 135.58031,76%
Luis Eduardo Campo Castillo Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 26.1526,12%
Cesar Luis Alberto Monsalvo Gnecco Union Party for the People 174.71249.51%
Arturo Rafael Calderón RivadeneiraAfrolives Political Movements126.79135,93%
Ruben Darío Carrillo García Colombian Conservative Party 18.2005,15%
Chocó Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia Radical Change Party-Conservative52.57341.65%
Oscar Bernardo Palacios Sánchez Union Party for the People 41.11135,93%
Francisco Wilson Córdoba López Colombian Liberal Party 23.42418,56%
Córdoba Alejandro José Lyons Muskus Union Party for the People 341.46052.71%
Victor Raul Oyola Daniells Colombian Liberal Party 283.56843,77%
Cundinamarca Álvaro Cruz Vargas Union Party for the People 608.97767.69%
Everth Bustamante GarciaUnite Movement119.78713,31%
Guainía Oscar Armando Rodríguez Sánchez Colombian Liberal Party 4.61039.13%
Tocayo Carrizosa Falla Union Party for the People 3.24627,55%
Anatalio Hernández Lozano Colombian Conservative Party 2.79623,73%
Guaviare José Octaviano Rivera Moncada Independent Social Alliance 9.77735.00%
Alexander Garcia Rodríguez Union Party for the People 8.83431,63%
José Alberto Pérez Restrepo Colombian Conservative Party 7.56127,07%
Huila Cielo Gonzalez Villa Union Party for the People 147.61235.03%
Carlos Mauricio Iriarte Barrios Colombian Liberal Party 142.01733,70%
Jorge Fernando Perdomo Polonia Colombian Conservative Party 114.84627,25%
La Guajira Juan Francisco Gómez Cerchar Radical Change Party 126.93952.34%
Bladimiro Nicolas Cuello Daza Colombian Conservative Party 106.62043.96%
Magdalena Luis Miguel Cotes HabeychRespect Movement for Magdalena171.15341.90%
José Luis Pinedo Campo Radical Change Party 129.21431.64%
Licet del Carmen Peñaranda Peña Independent Social Alliance 72.12817.66%
Meta Alan Edmundo Jara UrzolaLets Go for Alante150.11441.92%
Wilmar Orlando Barbosa Rozo Union Party for the People 132.48037,00%
Hernán Gómez Nino Green Party 61.58217.20%
Nariño Segundo Raul Delgado GuerreroUnity Regional280.30849.00%
Germán Chamorro de la Rosa Union Party for the People 247.59843.29%
Norte de Santander Edgar Jesús Diaz ContrerasOnward Un Norte291.38959.76%
Juan Alcides Santaella Gutierrez Colombian Conservative Party 132.62527.20%
Rafael Mora Bonilla Alternative Democratic Pole 12.3632.53%
Putumayo Jimmy Harold Diaz Burbano Colombian Conservative Party 53.79753.29%
Ivan Gerardo Guerrero Guevara Colombian Liberal Party 33.63633.32%
Carlos Olmedo Jimenez Toro Alternative Democratic Pole 4.2824.24%
Quindío Sandra Paola Hurtado PalacioQuindío Firme Movement86.07140.22%
Belen Sanchez Caceres Union Party for the People 74.74434.92%
Martha Liliana Agudelo Valencia Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 20.8709.75%
Risaralda Carlos Alberto Botero LópezInclusive National Unity with Results127.16838.45%
Sigifredo Salazar Osorio Colombian Conservative Party 97.17729.38%
Martha Cecilia Alzate Alzate Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 38.83511.74%
San Andrés Aury Socorro Guerrero Bowie Colombian Liberal Party 14.26961.01%
Susanie Davis BryanGo Regional Integration Movement8.42236.01%
Santander Richard Alfonso Aguilar VillaSantander Seriously481.36256.15%
Luis Fernando Cote PeñaUnited for Santander312.09436.40%
Sucre Julio Cesar Guerra Tulena Colombian Liberal Party 204.68365.49%
Gustavo Montes Indigenous Authorities of Colombia 32.63310.44%
Ramon Emiro Muskus Dumar National Integration Party 20.0866.42%
Tolima Luis Carlos Delgado Peñon Colombian Liberal Party 243.71249.22%
Luis Fernando Caicedo Lince Colombian Conservative Party 174.57935.26%
Jorge Enrique Garcia Orjuela Independent Social Alliance 15.9073.21%
Valle del Cauca Héctor Fabio Useche de La CruzInclusion and Opportunities Movement446.81033.02%
Jorge Homero Giraldo Colombian Liberal Party 441.30332.62%
Ubeimar Delgado Blandon Colombian Conservative Party and Green Party 197.21114.57%
Vaupés Roberto Jaramillo Garcia Indigenous Authorities of Colombia 6.20661.26%
Henry Fernando Correal Herrera Radical Change Party 3.33332.90%
Rayol Sarmiento Piñeros Colombian Liberal Party 3653.60%
Vichada Sergio Andrés Espinosa Florez Independent Social Alliance 9.04944.46%
Blas Arvelio Ortiz Rebolledo Indigenous Authorities of Colombia 6.92934.04%
Henry Silva Meche Colombian Liberal Party 3.57817.58%

Mayors of department city capitals

Department CapitalCandidatePartyVotes%
Leticia José Ignacio Lozano Guzmán Radical Change Party 4.55426.92%
Juan Carlos [1] Martinez Quiñones Union Party for the People 3.54320.94%
Hugo Alberto Pérez Araujo Colombian Liberal Party 2.84116.79%
Medellín Anibal Gaviria Correa Colombian Liberal Party 238.97037.66%
Luis Pérez GutiérrezSignatures for the Rescue of Medellín221.70834.94%
Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga Union Party for the People 120.00218.91%
Arauca Luis Emilio Tovar Bello Union Party for the People 12.82840.52%
Dumar Abel Sanchez Radical Change Party 9.28229.32%
Mario Alberto Valderrama Puerta Colombian Liberal Party 7.69024.29%
Barranquilla Elsa Margarita Radical Change Party 225.89158.01%
Juan Alberto García EstradaSignatures with Barranquilla113.28129.09%
Antonio Eduardo Bohorquez Collazos Alternative Democratic Pole 7.1411.83%
Cartagena Campo Elías Terán Dix Independent Social Alliance 158.13454.72%
María del Socorro Bustamante IbarraFor a Social Cartagena52.25318.08%
Dionisio Fernando Vélez Trujillo"If Possible" Movement47.60916.47%
Tunja Fernando Florez Espinosa Green Party 29.54646.99%
Ricardo Hernando Vargas Pérez Colombian Conservative Party - Colombian Liberal Party. - Union Party for the People 22.70036.10%
Armando Guerrero Castro Radical Change Party 6.60110.49%
Manizales Jorge Eduardo Rojas Giraldo Colombian Conservative Party - Union Party for the People Alliance39.96630.71%
José Fernando Mancera TabaresCitizens' Signatures with Manizales37.09328.50%
Héctor Jaime Pinilla Ortiz Green Party 23.60518.13%
Florencia María Susana Portela Lozada Union Party for the People 21.05737.73%
Lucrecia Murcia Lozada Colombian Liberal Party 13.29423.82%
Alonso Orozco Gomez Alternative Democratic Pole 12.02221.54%
Yopal Willman Enrique Celemin Cáceres Colombian Liberal Party 30.36254.68%
Carlos Fredy Mejía Rivera Union Party for the People 9.33216.80%
Luis Eduardo Castro National Integration Party 7.90014.22%
Popayán Francisco Fuentes Meneses Colombian Conservative Party 29.69828.77%
Víctor Libardo Ramírez Fajardo Independent Social Alliance 15.64415.15%
Cesar Cristian Gomez Castro Colombian Liberal Party 14.54114.08%
Valledupar Fredys Miguel Socarrás RealesIf We Can48.64037.82%
Gonzalo Raul Gomez Soto Colombian Liberal Party 37.45529.12%
Augusto Daniel Ramírez Uhia Radical Change Party 27.46321.35%
Quibdó Zulia María Mena García Radical Change Party 15.63142.64%
Jafet Bejarano Sánchez Union Party for the People 12.26333.45%
Dhorton Pino Serna Colombian Liberal Party 5.53315.09%
Montería Carlos Eduardo Correa Escaf Colombian Conservative Party 84.18153.34%
Daniel Alberto Cabrales Castillo Union Party for the People 55.34035.06%
Rosendo Gabriel Gómez Martínez Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 5.7073.61%
Bogotá Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego [7] Progresistas721.30832.16%
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño Green Party and Union Party for the People 559.30724.93%
Gina Parody Mayor Gina Parody375.57416.74%
Inírida Óscar Gerardo Delvasto Lara Radical Change Party 3.27835.90%
Edgar Efredy Hernández Torres National Integration Party 2.40526.34%
Henry Ignacio Camico Diaz Independent Social Alliance 1.97221.60%
San José del Guaviare Geovanny Gómez Criales Green Party 4.80026.53%
Alexander Harley Bermudez Lasso Union Party for the People 4.41524.40%
Julio Arciniegas Cifuentes Colombian Liberal Party 4.24123.44%
Neiva Pedro Hernán Suárez Trujillo Union Party for the People 59.72850.12%
Rodrigo Armando Lara Sanchez Green Party 29.70024.92%
Álvaro Hernán Prada Artunduaga Colombian Liberal Party - Radical Change Party 21.50218.04%
Riohacha Rafael Ricardo Ceballos Sierra Colombian Liberal Party 34.44763.97%
José Manuel Quintero Medina Union Party for the People 13.08624.30%
Ángel Alberto Roys Mejia Indigenous Authorities of Colombia 3.2636.06%
Santa Marta Carlos Caicedo Colombian Liberal Party 74.16551.19%
Alejandro Mario Palacio Valencia Colombian Conservative Party 40.91228.24%
Carlina Cecilia Sanchez Marmolejo Alternative Democratic Pole 18.16112.53%
Villavicencio Juan Guillermo Zuluaga Cardona Union Party for the People 59.24433.44%
Víctor Delio Sánchez Gómez Colombian Conservative Party 54.37630.69%
Luis Alfredo Arias Marcado Colombian Liberal Party 20.33811.48%
Pasto Harold Guerrero López Radical Change Party 50.32634.70%
Pedro Vicente Obando OrdoñezCitizens' Movement of Pasto49.57334.18%
Nicolas Martin Toro Muñoz Colombian Liberal Party 31.76121.90%
Cúcuta Donamaris Ramírez-Paris Lobo Green Party 104.39642.62%
Andrés Cristo Bustos Colombian Liberal Party 65.27226.65%
Rafael Navi Gregorio Angarita Lamk Union Party for the People 57.28423.39%
Mocoa Elver Porfidio Ceron Chicunque Colombian Conservative Party 8.01444.52%
José Antonio Castro Melendez Green Party 6.60436.69%
Manuel Jesús Gomez Ordoñez Radical Change Party 1.4708.16%
Armenia Luz Piedad Valencia Franco Colombian Liberal Party 42.93737.91%
Roberto Jairo Jaramillo CardenasAdvance Armenia41.44336.59%
Aydee Lizarazo Cubillos Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 8.8887.84%
Pereira Enrique Antonio Vasquez Zuleta Union Party for the People - Green Party 69.80940.20%
Juan Manuel Arango VélezParty Coalition for Mayor of Pereira68.00339.16%
Andrés Felipe Ocampo Villegas Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 12.6827.30%
Bucaramanga Luis Francisco Bohorquez Pedraza Colombian Liberal Party 120.67052.83%
Martha Elena Pinto De De Hart Union Party for the People - Colombian

Conservative Party

65.12228.51%
Celestino Mojica PeñaBucaramanga Evolves24.81310.86%
Sincelejo Jairo Alfredo Fernandez Quessep Union Party for the People 54.72748.25%
Carlos Arturo Vergara Montes Colombian Conservative Party 51.49145.40%
Aris Manuel Aguas Jimenez Green Party 2.0721.82%
Ibagué Luis Hernando Rodríguez Ramírez Colombian Liberal Party 78.23344.22%
Ricardo Alfonso Ferro Lozano Union Party for the People 64.74436.59%
Carlos Andrés Ramírez Rey Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation 15.8948.98%
Cali [1] Rodrigo Guerrero VelascoMayor Guerrero (CM)241.72342.10%
Milton Fabián Castrillón Rodríguez Colombian Conservative Party 113.12719.70%
María Isabel Urrutia Ocoro Alternative Democratic Pole 87.20515.19%
Mitú Carlos Iván Ramiro Melendez Moreno National Integration Party 2.19228.55%
Alcira Gonzalez Ramírez Union Party for the People 2.15428.05%
Pio V. Castrillon Buitrago Independent Social Alliance 1.70922.26%
Puerto Carreño Álvaro Mauricio Londoño Lugo Radical Change Party 2.04830.79%
Luis Antonio Robledo Valbuena Union Party for the People 1.84927.80%
Jhon Jairo Rodríguez Guzmán Colombian Liberal Party 1.69325.45%
Map of the gubernatorial results for the 2011 elections

Unity Party for the People
Colombian Liberal Party
Colombian Conservative Party
Radical Change Party
Green Party
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA)
Independent Social Alliance (ASI)
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO)
Signatures/Citizens' Groups Colombian Gubernatorial Election Results 2011.svg
Map of the gubernatorial results for the 2011 elections
  •   Unity Party for the People
  •   Colombian Liberal Party
  •   Colombian Conservative Party
  •   Radical Change Party
  •   Green Party
  •   Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA)
  •   Independent Social Alliance (ASI)
  •   Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO)
  •   Signatures/Citizens' Groups

Results by party

Party Governors Deputies MayorsCouncilorsTotal
PartidodelaU.JPG Union Party for the People 4742582,0542,390
Bandera del Partido Liberal Colombiano.svg Colombian Liberal Party 6781811,8732,138
Bandera del Partido Conservador Colombiano.svg Colombian Conservative Party 1651941,9892,249
Cambio Radical logo.svg Radical Change Party 1501551,4481,654
Partido Verde COL.png Green Party 22349717791
PDA Logo.svg Alternative Democratic Pole 079231247
Movimiento mira.svg Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA)1714554
HSSamarbete.svg Signatures/ Citizens' Groups1417163750944
Other Parties31666846931

See also

References

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