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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.

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.

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. 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" (vote watch), 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.

Results

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'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.

Governorates by department

Mayors of department city capitals

Results by party

Party		Governors	Deputies	Mayors	Councilors	Total
	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

See also

• 2022 Colombian presidential election

References

1. ^ Bleier, Elisabeth Ungar (13 December 2011). "Regional and Municipal Elections in Colombia October 2011". The Wilson Center. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
2. "Bogotá Voters to Elect New Mayor on Sunday". Americas Quarterly. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
3. ^ "Colombia Holds Municipal Elections". Voice of America. 29 October 2011. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
4. Pinas con el Voto (in Spanish), Electoral Observation Mission, Wikidata Q128858824, archived from the original on 11 August 2024
5. Alice Mattoni (2024), Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption (PDF), Edward Elgar Publishing, doi:10.4337/9781802202106, Wikidata Q128797072, archived (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2024
6. Richani, Nazih (31 October 2011). "Paramilitary Ties in Colombian Local Elections". NACLA. Archived from the original on 9 May 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
7. "Ex-guerrilla elected mayor of Colombia's capital". CNN. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

External links

• National Register of the Civil State Electoral Organization Archived 3 October 2013.
• Balance Electoral de Colombia 2011 from the National University of Rosario

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