The 2011 Colombian regional and municipal elections were held on October 30, 2011 to elect the governors of 32 departments and their Department Assemblies, the mayors of 1099 municipalities and their city councils, and the Local Administrative Juntas (JAL) of national territories.[1]
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]
Leading up to the elections, 41 candidates were assassinated with many others receiving threats against their lives or those of their family.[3] Then President Juan Manuel Santos deployed 300,000 troops in an effort to prevent violence against candidates and voters. Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), a Colombian civil society network active in election monitoring training, created a crowdsourcing website, "Pilas con el Voto" (English: 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]
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 nations capital city, under the Progresistas Party against Green Party and Union Party for the People's candidate, and former mayor, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño and 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 that won Colombia's first gold medal in 2000, who 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]
| Department | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazonas | Carlos Arturo Rodríguez Celis | Green Party | 7.696 | 33.75% |
| Rafael Elizalde Gómez | Radical Change Party | 6.453 | 28,30% | |
| Guillermo Marín Torres | Inclusion and Opportunities Movement | 4.678 | 20,51% | |
| Antioquia | Sergio Fajardo Valderrama | Green Party | 925.956 | 49.51% |
| Álvaro Vásquez Osorio | Colombian Conservative Party | 542.533 | 29,00% | |
| Carlos Mario Estrada Molina | Union Party for the People | 244.179 | 13,05% | |
| Arauca | José Facundo Castillo Cisneros | Union Party for the People | 35.506 | 44,48% |
| Carlos Eduardo Pinilla Ruiz | Radical Change Party | 23.392 | 29,30% | |
| Atlántico | José Antonio Segebre Berardinelli | Colombian Liberal Party | 340.312 | 46,62% |
| Jaime Alejandro Amín Hernández | Union Party for the People | 239.761 | 32,86% | |
| Bolívar | Juan Carlos Gossain Roginini | Colombian Liberal Party | 273.629 | 43.54% |
| Rosario Cecilia Ricardo Bray | Union Party for the People | 229.616 | 36,54% | |
| Dionisio Miranda Tejedor | Alternative Democratic Pole | 44.172 | 7,02% | |
| Boyacá | Juan Carlos Granados Becerra | Union Party for the People | 280.278 | 51.79% |
| Gonzalo Guarín Vivas | Green Party | 129.809 | 23,98% | |
| León Gioberto Barón Neira | Colombian Conservative Party | 103.042 | 19,04% | |
| Caldas | Guido Echeverry Piedrahita | Colombian Conservative Party | 150.470 | 42,82% |
| Gabriel Vallejo López | Union Party for the People | 142.231 | 40,50% | |
| Caquetá | Victor Isidro Ramírez Loaiza | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 55.084 | 45.81% |
| Harry Giovanny Gonzalez García | Colombian Liberal Party | 40.312 | 33,52% | |
| Nelcy Almario Rojas | Colombian Conservative Party | 8.584 | 7,13% | |
| Casanare | Nelson Ricardo Marino Velandia | Afrolives Political Movements | 54.890 | 35.69% |
| Jorge Elieser Prieto Riveros | Green Party | 25.214 | 16,39% | |
| José Alirio Guzmán Guzmán | Radical Change Party | 24.227 | 15,175% | |
| Efren Antonio Hernández Díaz | National Integration Party | 23.342 | 15,18% | |
| Cauca | Temístocles Ortega Narvaez | 196.081 | 45.94% | |
| Juan Carlos López Castrillón | Colombian Liberal Party | 135.580 | 31,76% | |
| Luis Eduardo Campo Castillo | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 26.152 | 6,12% | |
| Cesar | Luis Alberto Monsalvo Gnecco | Union Party for the People | 174.712 | 49.51% |
| Arturo Rafael Calderón Rivadeneira | Afrolives Political Movements | 126.791 | 35,93% | |
| Ruben Darío Carrillo García | Colombian Conservative Party | 18.200 | 5,15% | |
| Chocó | Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia | Radical Change Party-Conservative | 52.573 | 41.65% |
| Oscar Bernardo Palacios Sánchez | Union Party for the People | 41.111 | 35,93% | |
| Francisco Wilson Córdoba López | Colombian Liberal Party | 23.424 | 18,56% | |
| Córdoba | Alejandro José Lyons Muskus | Union Party for the People | 341.460 | 52.71% |
| Victor Raul Oyola Daniells | Colombian Liberal Party | 283.568 | 43,77% | |
| Cundinamarca | Álvaro Cruz Vargas | Union Party for the People | 608.977 | 67.69% |
| Everth Bustamante Garcia | Unite Movement | 119.787 | 13,31% | |
| Guainía | Oscar Armando Rodríguez Sánchez | Colombian Liberal Party | 4.610 | 39.13% |
| Tocayo Carrizosa Falla | Union Party for the People | 3.246 | 27,55% | |
| Anatalio Hernández Lozano | Colombian Conservative Party | 2.796 | 23,73% | |
| Guaviare | José Octaviano Rivera Moncada | 9.777 | 35.00% | |
| Alexander Garcia Rodríguez | Union Party for the People | 8.834 | 31,63% | |
| José Alberto Pérez Restrepo | Colombian Conservative Party | 7.561 | 27,07% | |
| Huila | Cielo Gonzalez Villa | Union Party for the People | 147.612 | 35.03% |
| Carlos Mauricio Iriarte Barrios | Colombian Liberal Party | 142.017 | 33,70% | |
| Jorge Fernando Perdomo Polonia | Colombian Conservative Party | 114.846 | 27,25% | |
| La Guajira | Juan Francisco Gómez Cerchar | Radical Change Party | 126.939 | 52.34% |
| Bladimiro Nicolas Cuello Daza | Colombian Conservative Party | 106.620 | 43.96% | |
| Magdalena | Luis Miguel Cotes Habeych | Respect Movement for Magdalena | 171.153 | 41.90% |
| José Luis Pinedo Campo | Radical Change Party | 129.214 | 31.64% | |
| Licet del Carmen Peñaranda Peña | 72.128 | 17.66% | ||
| Meta | Alan Edmundo Jara Urzola | Lets Go for Alante | 150.114 | 41.92% |
| Wilmar Orlando Barbosa Rozo | Union Party for the People | 132.480 | 37,00% | |
| Hernán Gómez Nino | Green Party | 61.582 | 17.20% | |
| Nariño | Segundo Raul Delgado Guerrero | Unity Regional | 280.308 | 49.00% |
| Germán Chamorro de la Rosa | Union Party for the People | 247.598 | 43.29% | |
| Norte de Santander | Edgar Jesús Diaz Contreras | Onward Un Norte | 291.389 | 59.76% |
| Juan Alcides Santaella Gutierrez | Colombian Conservative Party | 132.625 | 27.20% | |
| Rafael Mora Bonilla | Alternative Democratic Pole | 12.363 | 2.53% | |
| Putumayo | Jimmy Harold Diaz Burbano | Colombian Conservative Party | 53.797 | 53.29% |
| Ivan Gerardo Guerrero Guevara | Colombian Liberal Party | 33.636 | 33.32% | |
| Carlos Olmedo Jimenez Toro | Alternative Democratic Pole | 4.282 | 4.24% | |
| Quindío | Sandra Paola Hurtado Palacio | Quindío Firme Movement | 86.071 | 40.22% |
| Belen Sanchez Caceres | Union Party for the People | 74.744 | 34.92% | |
| Martha Liliana Agudelo Valencia | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 20.870 | 9.75% | |
| Risaralda | Carlos Alberto Botero López | Inclusive National Unity with Results | 127.168 | 38.45% |
| Sigifredo Salazar Osorio | Colombian Conservative Party | 97.177 | 29.38% | |
| Martha Cecilia Alzate Alzate | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 38.835 | 11.74% | |
| San Andrés | Aury Socorro Guerrero Bowie | Colombian Liberal Party | 14.269 | 61.01% |
| Susanie Davis Bryan | Go Regional Integration Movement | 8.422 | 36.01% | |
| Santander | Richard Alfonso Aguilar Villa | Santander Seriously | 481.362 | 56.15% |
| Luis Fernando Cote Peña | United for Santander | 312.094 | 36.40% | |
| Sucre | Julio Cesar Guerra Tulena | Colombian Liberal Party | 204.683 | 65.49% |
| Gustavo Montes | Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 32.633 | 10.44% | |
| Ramon Emiro Muskus Dumar | National Integration Party | 20.086 | 6.42% | |
| Tolima | Luis Carlos Delgado Peñon | Colombian Liberal Party | 243.712 | 49.22% |
| Luis Fernando Caicedo Lince | Colombian Conservative Party | 174.579 | 35.26% | |
| Jorge Enrique Garcia Orjuela | 15.907 | 3.21% | ||
| Valle del Cauca | Héctor Fabio Useche de La Cruz | Inclusion and Opportunities Movement | 446.810 | 33.02% |
| Jorge Homero Giraldo | Colombian Liberal Party | 441.303 | 32.62% | |
| Ubeimar Delgado Blandon | Colombian Conservative Party and Green Party | 197.211 | 14.57% | |
| Vaupés | Roberto Jaramillo Garcia | Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 6.206 | 61.26% |
| Henry Fernando Correal Herrera | Radical Change Party | 3.333 | 32.90% | |
| Rayol Sarmiento Piñeros | Colombian Liberal Party | 365 | 3.60% | |
| Vichada | Sergio Andrés Espinosa Florez | 9.049 | 44.46% | |
| Blas Arvelio Ortiz Rebolledo | Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 6.929 | 34.04% | |
| Henry Silva Meche | Colombian Liberal Party | 3.578 | 17.58% |
| Department Capital | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leticia | José Ignacio Lozano Guzmán | Radical Change Party | 4.554 | 26.92% |
| Juan Carlos Martinez Quiñones | Union Party for the People | 3.543 | 20.94% | |
| Hugo Alberto Pérez Araujo | Colombian Liberal Party | 2.841 | 16.79% | |
| Medellín | Anibal Gaviria Correa | Colombian Liberal Party | 238.970 | 37.66% |
| Luis Pérez Gutiérrez | Signatures for the Rescue of Medellín | 221.708 | 34.94% | |
| Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga | Union Party for the People | 120.002 | 18.91% | |
| Arauca | Luis Emilio Tovar Bello | Union Party for the People | 12.828 | 40.52% |
| Dumar Abel Sanchez | Radical Change Party | 9.282 | 29.32% | |
| Mario Alberto Valderrama Puerta | Colombian Liberal Party | 7.690 | 24.29% | |
| Barranquilla | Elsa Margarita | Radical Change Party | 225.891 | 58.01% |
| Juan Alberto García Estrada | Signatures with Barranquilla | 113.281 | 29.09% | |
| Antonio Eduardo Bohorquez Collazos | Alternative Democratic Pole | 7.141 | 1.83% | |
| Cartagena | Campo Elías Terán Dix | Independent Social Alliance | 158.134 | 54.72% |
| María del Socorro Bustamante Ibarra | For a Social Cartagena | 52.253 | 18.08% | |
| Dionisio Fernando Vélez Trujillo | "If Possible" Movement | 47.609 | 16.47% | |
| Tunja | Fernando Florez Espinosa | Green Party | 29.546 | 46.99% |
| Ricardo Hernando Vargas Pérez | Colombian Conservative Party - Colombian Liberal Party. - Union Party for the People | 22.700 | 36.10% | |
| Armando Guerrero Castro | Radical Change Party | 6.601 | 10.49% | |
| Manizales | Jorge Eduardo Rojas Giraldo | Colombian Conservative Party - Union Party for the PeopleAlliance | 39.966 | 30.71% |
| José Fernando Mancera Tabares | Citizens' Signatures with Manizales | 37.093 | 28.50% | |
| Héctor Jaime Pinilla Ortiz | Green Party | 23.605 | 18.13% | |
| Florencia | María Susana Portela Lozada | Union Party for the People | 21.057 | 37.73% |
| Lucrecia Murcia Lozada | Colombian Liberal Party | 13.294 | 23.82% | |
| Alonso Orozco Gomez | Alternative Democratic Pole | 12.022 | 21.54% | |
| Yopal | Willman Enrique Celemin Cáceres | Colombian Liberal Party | 30.362 | 54.68% |
| Carlos Fredy Mejía Rivera | Union Party for the People | 9.332 | 16.80% | |
| Luis Eduardo Castro | National Integration Party | 7.900 | 14.22% | |
| Popayán | Francisco Fuentes Meneses | Colombian Conservative Party | 29.698 | 28.77% |
| Víctor Libardo Ramírez Fajardo | 15.644 | 15.15% | ||
| Cesar Cristian Gomez Castro | Colombian Liberal Party | 14.541 | 14.08% | |
| Valledupar | Fredys Miguel Socarrás Reales | If We Can | 48.640 | 37.82% |
| Gonzalo Raul Gomez Soto | Colombian Liberal Party | 37.455 | 29.12% | |
| Augusto Daniel Ramírez Uhia | Radical Change Party | 27.463 | 21.35% | |
| Quibdó | Zulia María Mena García | Radical Change Party | 15.631 | 42.64% |
| Jafet Bejarano Sánchez | Union Party for the People | 12.263 | 33.45% | |
| Dhorton Pino Serna | Colombian Liberal Party | 5.533 | 15.09% | |
| Montería | Carlos Eduardo Correa Escaf | Colombian Conservative Party | 84.181 | 53.34% |
| Daniel Alberto Cabrales Castillo | Union Party for the People | 55.340 | 35.06% | |
| Rosendo Gabriel Gómez Martínez | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 5.707 | 3.61% | |
| Bogotá | Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego[7] | Progresistas | 721.308 | 32.16% |
| Enrique Peñalosa Londoño | Green Party and Union Party for the People | 559.307 | 24.93% | |
| Gina Parody | Mayor Gina Parody | 375.574 | 16.74% | |
| Inírida | Óscar Gerardo Delvasto Lara | Radical Change Party | 3.278 | 35.90% |
| Edgar Efredy Hernández Torres | National Integration Party | 2.405 | 26.34% | |
| Henry Ignacio Camico Diaz | 1.972 | 21.60% | ||
| San José del Guaviare | Geovanny Gómez Criales | Green Party | 4.800 | 26.53% |
| Alexander Harley Bermudez Lasso | Union Party for the People | 4.415 | 24.40% | |
| Julio Arciniegas Cifuentes | Colombian Liberal Party | 4.241 | 23.44% | |
| Neiva | Pedro Hernán Suárez Trujillo | Union Party for the People | 59.728 | 50.12% |
| Rodrigo Armando Lara Sanchez | Green Party | 29.700 | 24.92% | |
| Álvaro Hernán Prada Artunduaga | Colombian Liberal Party - Radical Change Party | 21.502 | 18.04% | |
| Riohacha | Rafael Ricardo Ceballos Sierra | Colombian Liberal Party | 34.447 | 63.97% |
| José Manuel Quintero Medina | Union Party for the People | 13.086 | 24.30% | |
| Ángel Alberto Roys Mejia | Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 3.263 | 6.06% | |
| Santa Marta | Carlos Eduardo Caicedo Omar | Colombian Liberal Party | 74.165 | 51.19% |
| Alejandro Mario Palacio Valencia | Colombian Conservative Party | 40.912 | 28.24% | |
| Carlina Cecilia Sanchez Marmolejo | Alternative Democratic Pole | 18.161 | 12.53% | |
| Villavicencio | Juan Guillermo Zuluaga Cardona | Union Party for the People | 59.244 | 33.44% |
| Víctor Delio Sánchez Gómez | Colombian Conservative Party | 54.376 | 30.69% | |
| Luis Alfredo Arias Marcado | Colombian Liberal Party | 20.338 | 11.48% | |
| Pasto | Harold Guerrero López | Radical Change Party | 50.326 | 34.70% |
| Pedro Vicente Obando Ordoñez | Citizens' Movement of Pasto | 49.573 | 34.18% | |
| Nicolas Martin Toro Muñoz | Colombian Liberal Party | 31.761 | 21.90% | |
| Cúcuta | Donamaris Ramírez-Paris Lobo | Green Party | 104.396 | 42.62% |
| Andrés Cristo Bustos | Colombian Liberal Party | 65.272 | 26.65% | |
| Rafael Navi Gregorio Angarita Lamk | Union Party for the People | 57.284 | 23.39% | |
| Mocoa | Elver Porfidio Ceron Chicunque | Colombian Conservative Party | 8.014 | 44.52% |
| José Antonio Castro Melendez | Green Party | 6.604 | 36.69% | |
| Manuel Jesús Gomez Ordoñez | Radical Change Party | 1.470 | 8.16% | |
| Armenia | Luz Piedad Valencia Franco | Colombian Liberal Party | 42.937 | 37.91% |
| Roberto Jairo Jaramillo Cardenas | Advance Armenia | 41.443 | 36.59% | |
| Aydee Lizarazo Cubillos | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 8.888 | 7.84% | |
| Pereira | Enrique Antonio Vasquez Zuleta | Union Party for the People - Green Party | 69.809 | 40.20% |
| Juan Manuel Arango Vélez | Party Coalition for Mayor of Pereira | 68.003 | 39.16% | |
| Andrés Felipe Ocampo Villegas | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 12.682 | 7.30% | |
| Bucaramanga | Luis Francisco Bohorquez Pedraza | Colombian Liberal Party | 120.670 | 52.83% |
| Martha Elena Pinto De De Hart | Union Party for the People - Colombian Conservative Party | 65.122 | 28.51% | |
| Celestino Mojica Peña | Bucaramanga Evolves | 24.813 | 10.86% | |
| Sincelejo | Jairo Alfredo Fernandez Quessep | Union Party for the People | 54.727 | 48.25% |
| Carlos Arturo Vergara Montes | Colombian Conservative Party | 51.491 | 45.40% | |
| Aris Manuel Aguas Jimenez | Green Party | 2.072 | 1.82% | |
| Ibagué | Luis Hernando Rodríguez Ramírez | Colombian Liberal Party | 78.233 | 44.22% |
| Ricardo Alfonso Ferro Lozano | Union Party for the People | 64.744 | 36.59% | |
| Carlos Andrés Ramírez Rey | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation | 15.894 | 8.98% | |
| Cali | Rodrigo Guerrero Velasco | Mayor Guerrero (CM) | 241.723 | 42.10% |
| Milton Fabián Castrillón Rodríguez | Colombian Conservative Party | 113.127 | 19.70% | |
| María Isabel Urrutia Ocoro | Alternative Democratic Pole | 87.205 | 15.19% | |
| Mitú | Carlos Iván Ramiro Melendez Moreno | National Integration Party | 2.192 | 28.55% |
| Alcira Gonzalez Ramírez | Union Party for the People | 2.154 | 28.05% | |
| Pio V. Castrillon Buitrago | 1.709 | 22.26% | ||
| Puerto Carreño | Álvaro Mauricio Londoño Lugo | Radical Change Party | 2.048 | 30.79% |
| Luis Antonio Robledo Valbuena | Union Party for the People | 1.849 | 27.80% | |
| Jhon Jairo Rodríguez Guzmán | Colombian Liberal Party | 1.693 | 25.45% |
| Union Party for the People | 4 | 74 | 258 | 2,054 | 2,390 | ||
| Colombian Liberal Party | 6 | 78 | 181 | 1,873 | 2,138 | ||
| Colombian Conservative Party | 1 | 65 | 194 | 1,989 | 2,249 | ||
| Radical Change Party | 1 | 50 | 155 | 1,448 | 1,654 | ||
| Green Party | 2 | 23 | 49 | 717 | 791 | ||
| Alternative Democratic Pole | 0 | 7 | 9 | 231 | 247 | ||
| Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA) | 1 | 7 | 1 | 45 | 54 | ||
| Signatures/ Citizens' Groups | 14 | 17 | 163 | 750 | 944 | ||
| Other Parties | 3 | 16 | 66 | 846 | 931 |