General Information
Note on the results: The vote count is for proportional representation only.
At stake in this election:
- 166 seats in the House of Representatives of Colombia.
Description of government structure:
- Chief of State: President Juan Manuel SANTOS Calderon
- Head of Government: President Juan Manuel SANTOS Calderon
- Assembly: Colombia has a bicameral Congress (Congreso) consisting of the Senate (Senado) with 102 seats and the House of Representatives (Camara de Representantes) with 166 seats.
Description of electoral system:
- In the Senate (Senado) 102 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms. Parties are allowed to choose between closed and open lists. Most lists are open. There is 1 multi-member national constituency with 100 seats and 1 multi-member special national constituency for indigenous (Indian) communities with 2 seats. In the House of Representatives, 163 members are elected through proportional representation. An additional two seats are chosen by Afro-Colombians and one by indigenous Colombians.
Main parties in the electoral race:
- Party: Social Party of National Unity / Partido Social de Unidad Nacional (Party of the U / Partido de «la U»)
- Leader: Aurelio IRAGORRI Valencia
- Party: Colombian Conservative Party / Partido Conservador Colombiano
- Leader: Hernán ANDRADE Serrano
- Party: Colombian Liberal Party / Partido Liberal Colombiano (PLC)
- Leader: Simón GAVIRIA Muñoz
- Party: Radical Change Party / Partido Cambio Radical
- Leader: Jorge ENRIQUE Veléz
- Party: Democratic Center Party / Partido Centro Democrático
- Leader: Álvaro URIBE
- Party: Green Alliance / Alianza Verde
- Leaders: Rodrigo ROMERO Hernández and Antonio SANGUINO Paez
- Party: Alternative Democratic Pole Party / Partido Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA)
- Leader: Alvaro José ARGOTO Muñoz
Population and number of registered voters:
- Population: 49,464,683 (2018 est.)
- Registered Voters:36,493,318 (2018)
Gender Data:
- Female Population: 25,136,143 (2018 est.)
- Is Colombia a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)
- Has Colombia ratified CEDAW: Yes (19 January 1982)
- Gender Quota: Yes
- Female candidates in this election: Yes
- Number of Female Parliamentarians: 33 (House of Representatives); 23 (Senate)
- Human Development Index Position: 90 (2018)
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low (2014)
Disability Data:
- Is Colombia a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007)
- Has Colombia ratified CRPD: Yes (10 May 2011)
- Population with a disability: 7,010,509 (2018 est.)