2010 Colombian presidential election
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Turnout | 49.30% (first round) 44.35% (second round) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Politics of Colombia |
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Presidential elections were held in
Candidates
Government group
In 2002, Álvaro Uribe of the
In 2007, Luis Guillermo Giraldo, leader of the pro-Uribe
Opposition group
Two of the opposition candidates were
On 2 October 2009, the
Opinion polls
First round
Date | Institute | Candidate | Undecided (Ns/Nr) V. None |
Source | |||||||||
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Rafael Pardo | Gustavo Petro | Germán Vargas Lleras | Sergio Fajardo | Juan Manuel Santos | Antanas Mockus | Noemí Sanín | Róbinson Devia | Jaime Araújo | Jairo Calderón | ||||
24 March 2010 | Invamer Gallup | 5.1% | 6.3% | 6.2% | 6.1% | 34.2% | 10.4% | 23.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 8.4% | [5] |
26 March 2010 | Datexco | 5.5% | 7.1% | 6.6% | 4.4% | 34.1% | 8.9% | 21.7% | 0% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 11.4% | [6] |
27 March 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 4% | 6% | 8% | 5% | 36% | 9% | 17% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 14% | [7] |
27 March 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 3.4% | 3.6% | 6.5% | 3.6% | 28.6% | 11.3% | 21.9% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 21.1% | [8] |
8 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 5% | 6% | 3% | - | 37% | 22% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 7% | [9] |
9 April 2010 | Datexco | 5.2% | 3.1% | 3% | - | 29.5% | 24.8% | 16.4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 17.2% | [10] |
15 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 4% | 4% | 2% | - | 36% | 29% | 19% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 5% | [11] |
16 April 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 5% | 4% | 3% | - | 30% | 20% | 12% | 1% | 5% | 5% | 15% | [12] |
22 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 5% | 5% | 4% | - | 35% | 34% | 12% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 3% | [13] |
26 April 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 3% | 5% | 3% | - | 29% | 38% | 11% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 10% | [14] |
28 April 2010 | Invamer Gallup | 5.7% | 5.0% | 3.6% | - | 34.2% | 31.6% | 16.2% | 0% | 0.1% | 0% | 3.5% | [15] |
29 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 3% | 5% | 4% | - | 34% | 39% | 11% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | [16] |
30 April 2010 | Datexco | 2.3% | 2.9% | 3.3% | - | 26.7% | 38.7% | 9.8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 16.3% | [17] |
6 May 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 3% | 5% | 5% | - | 34% | 38% | 11% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | [18] |
7 May 2010 | Datexco | 1.4% | 4.2% | 3.1% | - | 25.2% | 37.7% | 6.7% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 21.7% | [19] |
9 May 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 4% | 4% | 3% | - | 35% | 34% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 12% | [20] |
13 May 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 3% | 4% | 4% | - | 38% | 36% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 6% | [21] |
14 May 2010 | Datexco | 3.1% | 7.5% | 4.3% | - | 29.3% | 32.8% | 5.6% | 0% | 0.4% | 0% | 13.8% | [22] |
19 May 2010 | Invamer Gallup | 3.8% | 7.3% | 3.8% | - | 37.5% | 35.4% | 8.8% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0% | 3.1% | [23] |
20 May 2010 | University of Medellin | 2.4% | 5.5% | 3.6% | - | 32.9% | 37.4% | 8.1% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 6.9% | [24] |
20 May 2010 | Centro Nacional De Consultoría | 4% | 5% | 4% | - | 39% | 34% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 4% | [25] |
21 May 2010 | Datexco | 2% | 5% | 3% | - | 35% | 34% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 12% | [26] |
22 May 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 3% | 6% | 5% | - | 34% | 32% | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 14% | [27] |
Second round: Mockus vs. Santos
Date | Institute | Candidate | Undecided (Ns/Nr) V. None |
Source | |
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Juan Manuel Santos | Antanas Mockus | ||||
15 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 49% | 44% | 7% | [28] |
16 April 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 45% | 37% | 18% | [12] |
22 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 44% | 50% | 6% | [13] |
26 April 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 37% | 50% | 13% | [14] |
28 April 2010 | Invamer Gallup | 42.2% | 47.9% | 9.9% | [15] |
29 April 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 42% | 53% | 5% | [16] |
30 April 2010 | Datexco | 29% | 41.5% | 29.5% | [17] |
6 May 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 43% | 50% | 7% | [18] |
7 May 2010 | Datexco | 30.5% | 52% | 17.5% | [19] |
9 May 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 41% | 48% | 11% | [20] |
13 May 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 47% | 47% | 6% | [21] |
14 May 2010 | Datexco | 33.6% | 47.9% | 17.5% | [22] |
May 19, 2010 | Invamer Gallup | 42.2% | 48.5% | 9.3% | [23] |
20 May 2010 | University of Medellin | 36% | 41.4% | 22.6% | [29] |
20 May 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 47% | 46% | 7% | [25] |
21 May 2010 | Datexco | 44% | 45% | 11% | [30] |
22 May 2010 | Ipsos Napoleón Franco | 40% | 45% | 15% | [27] |
3 June 2010 | Centro Nacional de Consultoría | 61.6% | 29.8% | 5.8% | [31] |
Conduct
On election day seven Colombian security services personnel were killed and eight were missing; parallels were drawn with FARC attacks and Santos' tenure as Defense Minister.[32]
Results
No candidate received an outright majority in the first round vote held on 30 May. Santos and Mockus faced one another in the runoff election on 20 June, leading to the election of Juan Manuel Santos as the next Colombian President.
Santos achieved a landslide victory, with 69 per cent of the votes.[33] Mockus got 27.51 per cent of votes.[34] This was the largest margin of victory for a president in the democratic period of Colombia's history.[35] Santos won 32 of the country's 33 electoral districts.[33] His allies have an overwhelming majority in the Colombian Congress.[33] Santos vowed to continue his predecessor's hardline stance against the country's Marxist rebels.[33] He paraphrased Isaac Newton – "If we have come far it's because we are standing on the shoulders of giants" – and said he would rid Colombia of what he described as the "nightmare of violence".[36]
The United States State Department said it was "pleased" with the election of Santos and praised the "spirited debate" before the runoff and Colombia's "longstanding commitment to democratic principles".[35]
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Rafael Pardo | Colombian Liberal Party | 638,302 | 4.38 | |||
Róbinson Devia | Voice of Conscience Movement | 31,338 | 0.22 | |||
Jairo Calderón | Liberal Opening Movement | 29,151 | 0.20 | |||
Jaime Araújo | Afro-Colombian Social Alliance | 14,847 | 0.10 | |||
Blank votes | 223,977 | 1.54 | 444,274 | 3.40 | ||
Total | 14,572,593 | 100.00 | 13,061,192 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 14,572,593 | 98.59 | 13,061,192 | 98.23 | ||
Invalid votes | 208,427 | 1.41 | 235,732 | 1.77 | ||
Total votes | 14,781,020 | 100.00 | 13,296,924 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 29,983,279 | 49.30 | 29,983,279 | 44.35 | ||
Source: RNEC, RNEC, IFES, IFES |
See also
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