Tuesday, June 23rd 2026 - 18:15 UTC
Those figures must be confirmed or adjusted by the count process
Colombia's National Registry reported on Tuesday that there is a 99.997% coincidence between the preliminary results of Sunday's presidential runoff, which gave the victory to Abelardo de la Espriella, and the municipal counts, one of the stages of the process that will lead to the official declaration of the new president. “The preliminary count coincides with the judges' tally by 99.997%,” the body said in a statement.
The Registry held that the figure “ratifies that the preliminary vote count had efficient levels of accuracy, which guarantees the efficiency and transparency of this tool as part of the Colombian electoral system.” According to the preliminary count released on Sunday, De la Espriella obtained close to 12.9 million votes (49.66%), against some 12.7 million (48.70%) for left-wing candidate Iván Cepeda, in the closest election in the country's recent history.
Those figures must be confirmed or adjusted by the count process, which consists of four stages. The first corresponds to the count by polling-station jurors at the close of voting; the second, to the municipal counts carried out by judges and notaries, the phase to which the Registry referred. According to the body, close to 9,000 judges and notaries, spread across 2,992 counting commissions, completed that task in the last few hours.
