Elections for the Senate of Colombia

← 2006 14 March 2010 2014 →
Turnout	44.2%
Party % Seats +/– Party of the U 25.8% 28 +8 Conservative Party 21.2% 22 +4 Liberal Party 16.3% 17 −1 National Integration 8.4% 9 +9 Radical Change 8.2% 8 −7 POLO 7.8% 8 −2 Green Party 4.9% 5 +5 MIRA 2.8% 3 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Colombia held elections to both chambers of Congress on 14 March 2010.^[1] The nationwide constituency for the 102-member Senate was contested by 16 lists, comprising 948 candidates. There are 33 regional constituencies for the Chamber of Representatives, plus a few other ethnic minority constituencies. In all, 282 lists, with 1,533 candidates, contested the 165 seats in the Chamber. Almost 30 million people were registered to vote.

Results

Senate

Incumbent President Álvaro Uribe maintained an absolute majority of seats in the Senate. The two major parties supporting Uribe – the Party of the U and the Conservative Party –, got 27 and 23 seats, respectively. The Party of the U achieved 25.17% of the votes, gaining eight seats, followed by the Conservative Party, with 20,6%, which gained four seats. The Liberals, which consists the main opposition party in the Senate, achieved 15.8% of the votes and kept its 18 seats.

The Liberal Party was followed by the National Integration Party, also allied to Uribe, was an electoral surprise, achieving 8.13% of the votes and eight seats. It became the fourth political force in the country, surpassing the Radical Change, also in the Uribe coalition, which achieved 7.97% of the votes and also eight seats, losing seven. The Alternative Democratic Pole, a more radical opposition party, lost two seats, achieving 7.62% of the votes and eight seats. The Green Party achieved five seats with 4.75% of the votes, followed by the Independent Absolute Renovation Movement with one seat and 2.7% of the votes. The Citizens Commitment for Colombia achieved 1.6% of the votes and gained no seats.

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Social Party of National Unity	2,792,944	25.48	28
	Colombian Conservative Party	2,257,335	20.59	22
	Colombian Liberal Party	1,724,151	15.73	17
	National Integration Party	892,720	8.14	9
	Radical Change	861,816	7.86	8
	Alternative Democratic Pole	824,948	7.53	8
	Green Party	521,503	4.76	5
	Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation	324,109	2.96	3
	Citizens' Compromise for Colombia	181,513	1.66	0
	Liberal Opening Movement	87,009	0.79	0
	Christian Party of Transformation and Order	57,981	0.53	0
	Alternative for Social Advance	38,248	0.35	0
	Colombian Party of Social Integration	12,348	0.11	0
	Afro-Colombian Social Alliance	11,636	0.11	0
Blank votes		373,370	3.41	–
Total		10,961,631	100.00	100
Valid votes		10,961,631	84.16
Invalid votes		2,063,718	15.84
Total votes		13,025,349	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		29,861,699	43.62
Indigenous seats
	Independent Social Alliance Movement	27,453	14.92	1
	Indigenous Authorities of Colombia	24,045	13.07	1
	Social and Indigenous Movement	21,950	11.93	0
	National Integration Party	11,105	6.03	0
	Alternative Democratic Pole	11,076	6.02	0
Blank votes		88,411	48.04	–
Total		184,040	100.00	2
Source: RNEC, RNEC, RNEC

Elected Senators