Many thanks to GitHub user “infrahumano” for posting all municipal data about yesterday’s presidential election in Colombia. Crunching those numbers yields interesting results:
- Poorer and historically conflictive parts of Colombia went for former Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro.
- Wealthier parts of Colombia went for former Medellín mayor Sergio Fajardo.
- Parts of Colombia that are neither too poor nor overly wealthy went for Iván Duque, the candidate of ex-president Álvaro Uribe’s party.
- Duque underperformed, and Fajardo overperformed, in big cities.
- Duque ruled the countryside.
(Update 5:30PM: showing my work—here’s the Excel file I used to add up all of the below items. Also, a Google Sheet combining municipal data about this and past elections, among other data, from @infrahumano and La Silla Vacía.)
Overall result for the entire country:
- Duque (right, “no” to FARC peace accord) 39%
- Petro (left, “yes”) 25%
- Fajardo (center-left, soft “yes”) 24%
- Vargas Lleras (center-right, soft “yes”) 7%
- De la Calle (center, “yes”) 2%
Historically conflictive territories went for Petro.
170 historically conflictive municipalities (those participating in the peace accords’ Development Programs with a Territorial Focus PDET, 10% of all voters):
- Petro 40%
- Duque 37%
- Fajardo 10%
- Vargas Lleras 9%
- De la Calle 2%
Municipalities that voted “no” in the October 2016 plebiscite voted overwhelmingly for Duque.
544 municipalities, 46% of voters:
- Duque 48%
- Fajardo 26%
- Petro 16%
- Vargas Lleras 7%
- De la Calle 2%
(Added 7:30PM, using dataset from La Silla Vacía.)
Municipalities that voted “yes” in the October 2016 plebiscite went for Petro.
576 municipalities, 54% of voters:
- Petro 34%
- Duque 32%
- Fajardo 22%
- Vargas Lleras 8%
- De la Calle 2%
Places that are not too poor, but not too wealthy, went heavily for Duque.
13 departments with 60-80% of their populations’ minimum basic economic needs met (44% of all voters)
- Duque 46%
- Fajardo 24%
- Petro 21%
- Vargas Lleras 7%
- De la Calle 2%
Duque underperformed in the poorest and wealthiest places.
19 departments, plus Bogotá and overseas consulates, with less than 60% or more than 80% of populations’ minimum basic needs met (56% of all voters)
- Duque 35%
- Petro 29%
- Fajardo 24%
- Vargas Lleras 8%
- De la Calle 2%
Petro won the poorest places.
10 departments with less than 55% of populations’ minimum basic needs met (15% of all voters)
- Petro 42%
- Duque 36%
- Vargas Lleras 12%
- Fajardo 7%
- De la Calle 2%
Fajardo won the wealthiest places.
4 departments, plus Bogotá and overseas consulates, with 80% or more of populations’ minimum basic needs met (35% of all voters)
- Fajardo 33%
- Duque 32%
- Petro 26%
- Vargas Lleras 6%
- De la Calle 2%
Duque underperformed, and Fajardo overperformed, in the biggest cities.
46 municipalities and one overseas consulate with at least 50,000 who voted for candidates (60% of all voters)
- Duque 36%
- Fajardo 30%
- Petro 25%
- Vargas Lleras 6%
- De la Calle 2%
Duque overperformed in the countryside.
1,076 municipalities and 68 overseas consulates with fewer than 50,000 who voted for candidates (40% of all voters)
- Duque 46%
- Petro 26%
- Fajardo 16%
- Vargas Lleras 10%
- De la Calle 2%