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" (), 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 candidate, and former mayor, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño as well as 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 who won Colombia's first gold medal in 2000; she 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 DepartmentCandidatePartyVotes%AmazonasCarlos Arturo Rodríguez CelisGreen Party7.69633.75%Rafael Elizalde GómezRadical Change Party6.45328,30%Guillermo Marín TorresInclusion and Opportunities Movement 4.67820,51%AntioquiaSergio Fajardo ValderramaGreen Party925.95649.51%Álvaro Vásquez OsorioColombian Conservative Party542.53329,00%Carlos Mario Estrada MolinaUnion Party for the People244.17913,05%AraucaJosé Facundo Castillo CisnerosUnion Party for the People35.50644,48%Carlos Eduardo Pinilla RuizRadical Change Party23.39229,30%AtlánticoJosé Antonio Segebre BerardinelliColombian Liberal Party340.31246,62%Jaime Alejandro Amín HernándezUnion Party for the People239.76132,86%BolívarJuan Carlos Gossain RogininiColombian Liberal Party273.62943.54%Rosario Cecilia Ricardo BrayUnion Party for the People229.61636,54%Dionisio Miranda TejedorAlternative Democratic Pole44.1727,02%BoyacáJuan Carlos Granados BecerraUnion Party for the People280.27851.79%Gonzalo Guarín VivasGreen Party129.80923,98%León Gioberto Barón NeiraColombian Conservative Party103.04219,04%CaldasGuido Echeverry PiedrahitaColombian Conservative Party150.47042,82%Gabriel Vallejo LópezUnion Party for the People142.23140,50%CaquetáVictor Isidro Ramírez LoaizaIndependent Movement of Absolute Renovation55.08445.81%Harry Giovanny Gonzalez GarcíaColombian Liberal Party40.31233,52%Nelcy Almario RojasColombian Conservative Party8.5847,13%CasanareNelson Ricardo Marino VelandiaAfrolives Political Movements 54.89035.69%Jorge Elieser Prieto RiverosGreen Party25.21416,39%José Alirio Guzmán GuzmánRadical Change Party24.22715,175%Efren Antonio Hernández DíazNational Integration Party23.34215,18%CaucaTemístocles Ortega NarvaezIndependent Social Alliance 196.08145.94%Juan Carlos López CastrillónColombian Liberal Party135.58031,76%Luis Eduardo Campo CastilloIndependent Movement of Absolute Renovation26.1526,12%CesarLuis Alberto Monsalvo GneccoUnion Party for the People174.71249.51%Arturo Rafael Calderón RivadeneiraAfrolives Political Movements 126.79135,93%Ruben Darío Carrillo GarcíaColombian Conservative Party18.2005,15%ChocóLuis Gilberto Murillo UrrutiaRadical Change Party-Conservative 52.57341.65%Oscar Bernardo Palacios SánchezUnion Party for the People41.11135,93%Francisco Wilson Córdoba LópezColombian Liberal Party23.42418,56%CórdobaAlejandro José Lyons MuskusUnion Party for the People341.46052.71%Victor Raul Oyola DaniellsColombian Liberal Party283.56843,77%CundinamarcaÁlvaro Cruz VargasUnion Party for the People608.97767.69%Everth Bustamante GarciaUnite Movement 119.78713,31%GuainíaOscar Armando Rodríguez SánchezColombian Liberal Party4.61039.13%Tocayo Carrizosa FallaUnion Party for the People3.24627,55%Anatalio Hernández LozanoColombian Conservative Party2.79623,73%GuaviareJosé Octaviano Rivera MoncadaIndependent Social Alliance 9.77735.00%Alexander Garcia RodríguezUnion Party for the People8.83431,63%José Alberto Pérez RestrepoColombian Conservative Party7.56127,07%HuilaCielo Gonzalez VillaUnion Party for the People147.61235.03%Carlos Mauricio Iriarte BarriosColombian Liberal Party142.01733,70%Jorge Fernando Perdomo PoloniaColombian Conservative Party114.84627,25%La GuajiraJuan Francisco Gómez CercharRadical Change Party126.93952.34%Bladimiro Nicolas Cuello DazaColombian Conservative Party106.62043.96%MagdalenaLuis Miguel Cotes HabeychRespect Movement for Magdalena171.15341.90%José Luis Pinedo CampoRadical Change Party129.21431.64%Licet del Carmen Peñaranda PeñaIndependent Social Alliance 72.12817.66%MetaAlan Edmundo Jara UrzolaLets Go for Alante150.11441.92%Wilmar Orlando Barbosa RozoUnion Party for the People132.48037,00%Hernán Gómez NinoGreen Party61.58217.20%NariñoSegundo Raul Delgado GuerreroUnity Regional280.30849.00%Germán Chamorro de la RosaUnion Party for the People247.59843.29%Norte de SantanderEdgar Jesús Diaz ContrerasOnward Un Norte 291.38959.76%Juan Alcides Santaella GutierrezColombian Conservative Party132.62527.20%Rafael Mora BonillaAlternative Democratic Pole12.3632.53%PutumayoJimmy Harold Diaz BurbanoColombian Conservative Party53.79753.29%Ivan Gerardo Guerrero GuevaraColombian Liberal Party33.63633.32%Carlos Olmedo Jimenez ToroAlternative Democratic Pole4.2824.24%QuindíoSandra Paola Hurtado PalacioQuindío Firme Movement86.07140.22%Belen Sanchez CaceresUnion Party for the People74.74434.92%Martha Liliana Agudelo ValenciaIndependent Movement of Absolute Renovation20.8709.75%RisaraldaCarlos Alberto Botero LópezInclusive National Unity with Results127.16838.45%Sigifredo Salazar OsorioColombian Conservative Party97.17729.38%Martha Cecilia Alzate AlzateIndependent Movement of Absolute Renovation38.83511.74%San AndrésAury Socorro Guerrero BowieColombian Liberal Party14.26961.01%Susanie Davis BryanGo Regional Integration Movement 8.42236.01%SantanderRichard Alfonso Aguilar VillaSantander Seriously 481.36256.15%Luis Fernando Cote PeñaUnited for Santander312.09436.40%SucreJulio Cesar Guerra TulenaColombian Liberal Party204.68365.49%Gustavo MontesIndigenous Authorities of Colombia32.63310.44%Ramon Emiro Muskus DumarNational Integration Party20.0866.42%TolimaLuis Carlos Delgado PeñonColombian Liberal Party243.71249.22%Luis Fernando Caicedo LinceColombian Conservative Party174.57935.26%Jorge Enrique Garcia OrjuelaIndependent Social Alliance 15.9073.21%Valle del CaucaHéctor Fabio Useche de La CruzInclusion and Opportunities Movement 446.81033.02%Jorge Homero GiraldoColombian Liberal Party441.30332.62%Ubeimar Delgado BlandonColombian Conservative Party and Green Party197.21114.57%VaupésRoberto Jaramillo GarciaIndigenous Authorities of Colombia6.20661.26%Henry Fernando Correal HerreraRadical Change Party3.33332.90%Rayol Sarmiento PiñerosColombian Liberal Party3653.60%VichadaSergio Andrés Espinosa FlorezIndependent Social Alliance 9.04944.46%Blas Arvelio Ortiz RebolledoIndigenous Authorities of Colombia6.92934.04%Henry Silva MecheColombian Liberal Party3.57817.58%
Mayors of department city capitals