Once the pre-count of the presidential elections in Colombia was done, it was confirmed that the second round will be between the candidates Gustavo Petro for him Historical Pact with 7,819,297 votes (40%) and Rodolfo Hernandez, with 5,412,346 votes (27.99%).
These results are surprising, since the polls indicated that the two candidates who had the greatest voting intentions were Petro and ‘Fico’ Gutiérrez, from the Team for Colombia coalition. However, what happened with the former mayor of Medellín it was the big surprise getting 4,630,692 votes (23.95%) and staying out of the second round.
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One of the aspects that ‘deflated’ Fajardo was the poor results obtained by Gutiérrez in the Atlántico, where he was expected to devastate as it was the political stronghold of Alejandro Char and his family, who participated in the Team for Colombia Coalition, of the which was chosen Fico.
The support of Alejandro Char, who was mayor of Barranquilla twice and had high favorability ratings, was expected to catapulted Federico Gutiérrez into the Atlantic, however, the results of this Sunday’s elections leave a completely different picture.
With 100% of the tables scrutinized in Atlántico, Gustavo Petro swept with 54.75%, that is, 479,049 votes, a figure that doubles the vote for Fico Gutiérrez, who obtained 233,614 votes, representing 26.70% of the total.
In a next step are Rodolfo Hernández, with 113,489 (12.97%), while Sergio Fajardo had 23,382 votes (2.67%).
