{"id":511964,"date":"2026-06-21T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-colombia-had-a-record-turnout-of-63-59\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:52:45","slug":"the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-colombia-had-a-record-turnout-of-63-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/the-second-round-of-the-presidential-election-in-colombia-had-a-record-turnout-of-63-59\/","title":{"rendered":"“The second round of the presidential election in Colombia had a record turnout of 63.59%”"},"content":{"rendered":"“n

Bogot\u00e1, Jun 21.- <\/strong>The second presidential round this Sunday in Colombia had a record turnout of 63.59%, after more than 26.3 million people voted in an election narrowly won by far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, who secured 12.9 million votes (49.66%), according to preliminary data.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

The figure was confirmed by the National Registry (electoral authority), which with 99.98% of the polling stations reported in the preliminary count, also gives leftist candidate Iv\u00e1n Cepeda 12.7 million votes (48.70%).<\/p>n”\n\n“n

Blank votes were 426,788, equivalent to 1.63%; while 29,498 ballots were not marked (0.11%), and null votes totaled 220,761, which correspond to 0.83%.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

Read: Rubio congratulates De la Espriella and looks forward to working on ending “illegal immigration”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>n”\n\n“n

The sum of null and unmarked votes is equivalent to 0.94%, which is almost the difference that De la Espriella has over Cepeda.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

“To all the citizenry, thank you for the task you performed. To all the institutions, thank you for the way we coordinated this work to achieve a historic election day, with levels of participation that had never been recorded in our country,” said the National Registrar, Hern\u00e1n Penagos, in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

Historically in Colombia, electoral participation levels usually range between 50% and 55%, so this Sunday’s elections mark a milestone in that regard, as well as in the narrow margin between De la Espriella and Cepeda, whose official result will have to be ratified by the scrutiny.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

“We have reached this final stage with the narrowest margin of votes recorded in any runoff election in Colombian electoral history,” stated Cepeda, upon acknowledging the preliminary result in a statement to his followers in Bogota.<\/p>n”\n\n“n

Regarding the regions, departments such as Cundinamarca stand out as one of the areas with the highest participation percentages at 73.45%, while Bogota records 70.65%. Santander (68.96%), Antioquia (62.93%), and Valle del Cauca (61.38%) also had high voter turnout.<\/p>n”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“n Bogot\u00e1, Jun 21.- The second presidential round this Sunday in Colombia had a record turnout of 63.59%, after more than 26.3 million people voted in an election narrowly won by far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, who secured 12.9 million votes (49.66%), according to preliminary data. n” “n The figure was confirmed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29bu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}