Poll Tracker: Colombia's 2026 Presidential Election
Poll Tracker: Colombia's 2026 Presidential Election
The left’s Iván Cepeda, the right’s Abelardo de la Espriella, and the center-right’s Paloma Valencia are battling to win the May 31 election.
This article was originally published on February 11 and has since been updated.
It may be a crowded field, but Colombia’s presidential election is shaping up to be a three-way race.
On the left is the governing Historic Pact’s Iván Cepeda, a senator offering a continuation of the policies of President Gustavo Petro. On the far right is Defenders of the Homeland Abelardo de la Espriella, a lawyer and outsider candidate in the vein of Argentina’s Javier Milei. Somewhere between the two stands center-right Democratic Center Senator Paloma Valencia of the Democratic Center, who counts ex-President Álvaro Uribe (2002–2010) as her political mentor.
Though polling behind the top three candidates, two centrist former mayors are among those leading the rest of the pack: Sergio Fajardo of Medellín and Claudia López of Bogotá.
In the May 31 first round, a candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright. Otherwise, a runoff will be held on June 21 between the two top vote-getters.
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