Paula and the cowboys
COLOMBIA
- Report
18 Jun 2018
by Juan Carlos Echeverry, Andrés Escobar Arango and Mauricio Santa Maria
Duque won Colombia’s presidency with 10.4 million votes (54% of total valid votes), while Petro obtained 8 million votes, equivalent to 41.8% (See Table 1). Figures 1 and 2 show the regional distribution indicating that some key provinces of central Colombia were responsible for these results. Duque widely surpassed Petro in Antioquia and the so-called coffee growing regions, as well as in Santanderes, Tolima, Huila and Cundinamarca. In contrast Petro won in Bogotá, the south and the Pacific coast regions, characterized by poorer populations and indigenous and African-Colombian communities.
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