Overview
- HISTORIC Pact captured 22.88% of the Senate vote to reach 25 of 103 seats and won 42 of 183 seats in the House, according to local tallies reported Monday.
- With no party securing an outright majority, a fragmented legislature will require coalition-building as the presidential race moves toward the May 31 first round.
- The right-leaning Democratic Center finished second in the Senate with 15.61%, and its founder Álvaro Uribe failed to win a seat.
- Senator Paloma Valencia won the right-wing bloc’s consultation to enter the presidential contest, as the final field awaits formal registrations.
- Election day featured large security deployments and an investigation into an alleged cross‑border voting attempt, while President Gustavo Petro questioned counting software and the national registrar defended the system.