2006 Colombian parliamentary election explained

Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on March 12, 2006 to elect members of the Senate and Chamber of Representatives.^[1] Presidential primaries were also held for the Liberal Party and the Alternative Democratic Pole prior to the upcoming presidential elections in May.

Senate

In the two-seat indigenous constituency, more blank votes were cast than votes for parties, resulting in a re-run being required. This took place with the same parties (AICO and ASI) but difference candidates.

Senate Members

circumscription	Party	Senator
National	Social Party of National Unity (U)	Dilian Francisca Toro Gina Parody Marta Lucía Ramírez José David Name Armando Benedetti Jairo Clopatofsky Manuel Enríquez Rosero Carlos García Orjuela Carlos Ferro Carlos Cárdenas Ortiz Jorge Visbal Martelo (after the death of Luis Guillermo Vélez) Ricardo Arias (after Jairo Enrique Merlano renounced) Aurelio Iragorri Adriana Gutiérrez Piedad Zuccardi Manuel Guillermo Mora Mauricio Pimiento (suspended, substituted by Juan Carlos Vélez Uribe) Zulema Jattin Corrales Efraín Torrado Luis Elmer Arenas Parra
	Colombian Conservative Party (C)	Roberto Gerlein Ciro Ramírez Germán Villegas William Montes (suspended, substituted by Milton Rodríguez) Hernán Andrade Juan Manuel Corzo Román Eduardo Enríquez Maya Alfonso Núñez Lapeira Iván Díaz Mateus Luis Humberto Gómez Gallo Efraín Cepeda Omar Yepes José Darío Salazar Ubeimar Delgado Julio Manzur Abdala Alirio Villamizar Manuel Ramiro Velásquez Jorge Hernando Pedraza
	Colombian Liberal Party (L)	Juan Manuel López Cabrales (suspended, substituted by Yolanda Pinto de Gaviria) Juan Manuel Galán Luis Fernando Duque Juan Fernando Cristo Mario Nader Muskus Piedad Córdoba Ruiz Cecilia López Montaño Guillermo Gaviria Zapata Víctor Renán Barco Germán Aguirre Mauricio Jaramillo Carlos Julio González Héctor Helí Rojas Hugo Serrano Gómez Jesús Ignacio García Luis Fernando Velasco Álvaro Antonio Ashton Giraldo Camilo Sánchez Ortega
	Radical Change Party (CR)	Germán Vargas Lleras Ramón Elías López (after the death of Mario Londoño Arcila) Claudia de Castellanos Humberto Builes (after the renunciation of Luis Carlos Torres) Rubén Darío Quintero Arturo Char Chaljub Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Miguel Pinedo Vidal Javier Cáceres Leal Reginaldo Montes (suspended, substituted by Elsa Gladys Cifuentes) Juan Carlos Restrepo Bernabé Celis Plinio Olano Becerra Antonio Guerra de la Espriella David Char Navas
	Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA)	Gustavo Petro Urrego Jorge Robledo Castillo Parmenio Cuéllar Bastidas Néstor Iván Moreno Rojas Jaime Dussán Alexander López Gloria Inés Ramírez Jorge Eliécer Guevara Luis Carlos Avellaneda Jesús Bernal Amorocho
	Partido Convergencia Ciudadana	Edgar Espíndola Niño (after the renunciation of Luis Alberto Gil) Óscar Josué Reyes Luis Eduardo Vives (suspended, substituted by Miguel Jesús Arenas Prada) Carlos Emiro Barriga Juan Carlos Martínez Gabriel Acosta Bendek Samuel Arrieta Buelvas
	Movimiento Alas Equipo Colombia	Óscar Suárez Mira Oscar Darío Pérez Jorge Ballesteros Gabriel Zapata Correa Antonio Valencia Duque (after the renunciation of Álvaro Araújo Castro)
	Partido Colombia Democrática	Ricardo Ariel Elcure Chacón (after the renunciation of Mario Uribe Escobar) José Gonzalo Gutiérrez (after the renunciation of Miguel Alfonso de la Espriella) Luzelena Restrepo (after the renunciation of Álvaro Alfonso García)
	Movimiento Independiente de Renovación Absoluta (MIRA)	Alexandra Moreno Piraquive Manuel Antonio Virgüez Carlos Alberto Baena
	Movimiento Colombia Viva	Dieb Maloof Cuse (suspended, substituted by Jorge Castro Pacheco, Vicente Blel Saad y ahora por Jorge Enrique Gómez) Habib Merheg Marun
Indigenous	Alianza Social Indígena (ASI)	Jesús Piñacué Achicué
	Autoridades Indígenas de Colombia (AICO)	Ramiro Estacio

• Of the 102 elected congressman and women that took office on July 20, 2006. 52 were re-elected, 25 had previously served in the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia in the 2002–2006 term, 3 returned to the senate after a few years of absence and 22 were elected to congress for the first time.

References

Boletin de Prensa N° 010 . Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil . 2006-07-14 . . es . 2007-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070728155437/http://www.registraduria.gov.co/elec2006/congreso/congreso_2006.doc . 2007-07-28 . dead .

1. Web site: IPU PARLINE database: COLOMBIA (Senado de la República) ELECTIONS IN 2006 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230920062254/http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2068_06.htm . 20 September 2023 . 8 August 2024 . INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION.

See also

• Spanish language Wikinews article