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System of government

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

Unitary presidential constitutional republic

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Total population

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

47,791,393 

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Total area (in square kilo meters)

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

1,141,748 km²

 

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Number of registered voters

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

32,975,158

 

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Number of registered voters

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

109,860,331

 

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Number of registered political parties

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

Major parties

 

Social Party of National Unity

Colombian Conservative Party

Colombian Liberal Party

Democratic Center (Colombia)

 

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Number of polling stations

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Average number of voters per polling station

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Voting age

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

18

 

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Elected Offices

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Election system

Last Updated : 2016-09-30

List Proportional Representation

 

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Terms of office

Last Updated : 2016-09-30

The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 4-year term. Presidents are limited to two four-year terms. In the Senate (Senado) 102 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

 

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Election

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

Colombian presidential election, 2014

 

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Date

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

May 25, 2014

 

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Political parties in the elections

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Number of elected candidates

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Voter turnout

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

47%

 

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Number of ballots cast

Last Updated : 2016-09-08

15,794,940

 

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Legal framework for elections

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

Part of Constitution - Separate legislation

 

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Legal provisions

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Constitution, art. 40 (2), 103, 104, 155, 170, 307, 374-378:

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Referenda

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

 Constitution, art. 104, 170, 377, 378:

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People’s Initiatives

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

No

 

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Recall Votes

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

N/A

 

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Official name

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

REGISTRADURIA NACIONAL DEL ESTADO CIVIL

 

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Mission, Vision, Key Objectives, Functions

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

Mission

Regulate, inspect, monitor and control all electoral activity of political parties and their candidates, to keep supervision and control of the Electoral Organization and ensure the development of electoral processes under full guarantees

 

Vision

The National Electoral Council will be the Corporation on the mainland model for the other Electoral Organizations, because of its transparency and effectiveness in the regulation, inspection, monitoring and control in electoral activities, being always at the forefront of processes, standards, and technology concepts of the electoral system.

 

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Type of EMB(independent, governmental, mixed)

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

Independent

 

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EMB budget source

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

The legislature - Other

 

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EMB expenditure audit

Last Updated : 2016-09-30

Another organ within the national government

 

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Number of EMB members (commissioners)

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

1 - 10 members

 

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Term of EMB members (commissioners)

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

For a specified number of years

 

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Who appoints members (commissioners)?

Last Updated : 2016-09-02

Legislature - Judiciary

 

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Selection of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

N/A

 

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Administrative divisions

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

conformed by thirty-two departments. Departments are formed by a grouping of municipalities. The Capital District is the country's capital, Bogota.

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Delimitation of constituencies(electoral district)

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

constituencies are delimited for election purposes

 

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Criteria for drawing boundaries

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

Conformity with local jurisdiction boundaries - Communities of interest/cultural concerns

 

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Body responsible for drawing boundaries

Last Updated : 2016-09-21

Legislature (1st chamber)

 

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Requirements on the right to vote

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Reasons for having the right to vote revoked

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Electoral Eligibility

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Reasons for having the eligibility revoked

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Requirements for party registration

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

In order to be able to nominate candidates, political parties must have legal personality

 

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Candidate nomination

Last Updated : 2016-10-28

independent candidates compete in both presidential and legislative elections

 

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Candidate Registration (National Assembly members)

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

- Requirement

Age
Citizenship
Other

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Candidate registration deposit

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

- Amount of fee

- Return of fee

Uncontested Election

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

N/A

 

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Preparation of the voters list

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

A continuous register (voter data is continuously collected and d between electoral events)

 

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Whether the registration is compulsory (or not)

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Yes

 

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Who is responsible for the voters list

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Election Management Body

 

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Voters list preparation procedure

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Inspection and objection procedure

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Definition

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Period

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Methods

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Prohibited forms of campaigning

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

- Who is not permitted to campaign

Campaign Finance

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

- Campaign expense limit

- Income and expenditure of campaign expense

- Report, public inspection, and open of income and expenditure

- Investigation on income and expenditure of campaign expense & actions

- Reimbursement of campaign expense

Presiding officers

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

① How many of officers in a polling station

② Roles of each officer

③ How we nominate the officers

Facilities or items a polling station is equipped with

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Polling station location criteria

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Voting hours

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Voting

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

① Is compulsory or voluntary?

② How many ballot papers are distributed to each voter?

Ballot Paper

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

① Determination of the order of candidates on ballots

② What has to be included in the ballot paper?

③ Ballot paper design or sample ballot paper

④ Valid and invalid ballot paper

Voting Procedures

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

- Start ofvoting

- Process of voting

- End of voting

Marking method

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Special voting (Absentee / Early / Proxy / Assisted / Postal / etc)

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

① Who are subjected to do

② Voting procedures

Counting Location

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

The polling stations

 

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Counting period

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Vote counting method

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Counting Procedures

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

Separate ballots for different elections - Preliminary count of all ballots in ballot box - Number of ballots in box reconciled against number of voters - Number of ballots reconciled against ballots initially received (minus spoilt and unused) - Each ballot paper held up for public scrutiny, with name of party/candidate called out loud - Sorted into piles according to individual party/candidate - Counted by hand - Sorted by party list

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When are ballots recounted?

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

Automatically (triggered) recounted under certain conditions - By request

 

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Who is eligible to vote for overseas voting?

Last Updated : 2016-10-24

Citizens residing outside the country

 

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Overseas voters list preparation

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Where to vote

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Voting procedure for early voting

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Methods used to transport ballot papers

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Counting procedure

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

How is the elected candidate chosen in the case of a tie?

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Apportioning of National Assembly seats

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Results Announcement

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Is the announcement of preliminary result required?

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Deadline for announcement of final results

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Reason for holding a by- or re-election

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

By-election dates

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Electoral process

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Criteria for allocating free broadcast time

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

Equal regardless of size of party and previous performance - Based on size of legislative caucus

 

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Television debates

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

presidential elections

 

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Blackout period for release of election survey results

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

1 day

 

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Electoral dispute resolution body

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

EMB

 

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Electoral dispute resolution mechanism

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Complaints can be submitted during the process of aggregation of results and immediately after its conclusion.

 

The National Electoral Council or its Delegates have full and complete competence to assess issues of fact or law and to complaints written to them submitted during the respective counts the registered candidates, their proxies or electoral witnesses legally constituted and using as evidence to solve only the electoral documents , May, by means of a reasoned decision, decide on the claims that are formulated on the basis of the following grounds: 1.When polling stations function in places or places not authorized by law. 2. When the election is verified in days other than those indicated by the Law, or of those seated by the authority with legal powers for this purpose. 3. When four (4) copies of the counting minutes of the voting juries are signed by less than three (3) of these. 4. When the votes cast at the polls have been destroyed or lost and there is no counting of votes counting the results of the voting. 5. When the number of voters in a table exceeds the number of citizens who can vote in it. 6. When the number of voters in a municipal seat, a corregimiento, a police inspection of a rural sector exceeds the total number of cells suitable for voting in said head, corregimiento, inspection of police sector Rural, according to the respective electoral censuses. 7.When the electoral rolls have been received extemporaneously, unless the delay is due to circumstances of violence. Force majeure or casefortuito, certified by a competent public official, or to events attributable to the officials responsible for receiving the specifications. 8.When the act is extended and signed in a place other than the place or place where the respective scrutineering corporation is to operate, unless justified by the competent electoral official. 9.When the lists of candidates have not been registered or modified in the legal opportunity or when the candidates have not expressed their acceptance and lending the corresponding oath within the terms sealed by the Law for the registration for the modification ? N, as the case may be. 10.When a voting jury computes votes in favor of the candidates referred to in article 151 of this Code. 11. When it is clear that the minutes of counting were incurred by adding the votes contained therein. 12.When on the basis of the ballot papers and the registration procedures, it appears clearly and unequivocally that, in the minutes of the proceedings, in error when entering the names or surnames of one or more candidates.

 

 

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Alternative electoral dispute resolution mechanism

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

N/A

 

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Direct public funding

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

Equal funding, regardless of size and previous performance  - Based on result of previous election - Based on current legislative representation - Other

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Private funding of political parties

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

ART?CULO 16. FUENTES DE FINANCIACI?N DE LOS PARTIDOS Y MOVIMIENTOS POL?TICOS. Los partidos y movimientos pol?ticos podr?n acudir a las siguientes fuentes para la financiaci?n de su funcionamiento y de sus actividades:
7. La financiaci?n estatal, en el caso de los partidos y movimientos pol?ticos con personer?a jur?dica.
2. Las contribuciones, donaciones y cr?ditos, en dinero o en especie, de sus afiliados y/o de particulares.
3. Los cr?ditos obtenidos en entidades financieras legalmente autorizadas.
4. Los ingresos originados en actos p?blicos, publicaciones y/o cualquier otra actividad lucrativa del partido o movimiento, los rendimientos procedentes de la gesti?n de su propio patrimonio y los que se obtengan de las actividades que puedan realizar en relaci?n con sus fines espec?ficos.
5. Los rendimientos financieros de inversiones temporales que realicen con sus recursos propios.
6. Las herencias o legados que reciban, y
7. La financiaci?n estatal, en el caso de los partidos y movimientos pol?ticos con personer?a jur?dica.?

 

ARTICLE 16. SOURCES OF FINANCING OF PARTIES AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. Political parties and movements may use the following sources to finance their operation and activities: 1. The quotas of its affiliates, in accordance with its statutes. 2. The contributions, donations and credits, in money or in kind, of its affiliates and / or individuals. 3. Credits obtained in financial institutions legally authorized. 4. Income derived from public events, publications and / or any other lucrative activity of the party or movement, income from the management of its own assets and those obtained from activities that may be carried out in relation to its specific purposes. 5. The financial returns of temporary investments that they realize with their own resources. 6. The inheritances or legacies that they receive, and 7. State funding, in the case of parties and political movements with legal status.

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Regulation, monitoring and investigation

Last Updated : 2016-10-28

Sanctions include fines, loss of public funding, deregistration of party, loss of nomination of candidate, loss of elected office, etc.

 

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Regulation, monitoring and investigation bodies

Last Updated : 2016-10-28

EMB 

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Which electoral processes are using ICTs?

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Scanning technology for processing registration forms (Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR))

Digital voter registration kits/computers, off-line

Digital voter registration kits/computers, online connected to central database

fingerprint scans are used to collect voter registration data

online/connected to central voter register is used for identifying voters at polling stations

official election results processed by an electronic tabulation system are entered into an electronic tabulation system between polling station level and central level

Open source systems are currently being introduced or are in use

The tabulation and scrutiny system is programmed in JAVA.

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When it was introduced

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

N/A

 

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Gender equality

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

Female Population: 24,255,888 (2014)

·         Is Colombia a signatory to CEDAW: Yes (17 July 1980)

·         Has Colombia ratified CEDAW: Yes (19 January 1982)

·         Gender Quota: Yes

·         Female candidates in this election: No

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 33 (House of Representatives); 23 (Senate) (following 2014 elections)

·         Human Development Index Position: 97 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: Low (2014)

 

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Aids for disabled or handicapped voters

Last Updated : 2016-11-15

Is Colombia a signatory to CRPD: Yes (30 March 2007) 

Has Colombia ratified CRPD: Yes (10 May 2011)

Population with a disability: 7,168,708 (est.)

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Voter education

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

Continuously

 

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National civic education

Last Updated : 2016-08-19

conducted by the National Electoral Management Body - conducted by the Government

 

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EMB Staff education

Last Updated : 2016-12-07

N/A

 

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Domestic observation

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

International observation

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Partnerships/MoUs

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

International Activities

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Major challenges to elections

Last Updated : 2016-05-03

Measures taken to deal with those Challenges

Last Updated : 2016-05-03