List of current members of the Senate of Colombia

This is a list of the current members of the Senate of Colombia for the 2018-2022 legislative period; their term will end on 19 July 2022.

Leadership
See also: President of the Senate of Colombia

The Board of Directors of the Senate is composed of a President and two Vice Presidents, nominated and elected separately by their peers for a period of one legislative year each, beginning the 20th of July of each calendar year.[1] The current leadership will end their tenure on 19 July 2020.[2]

OfficeOfficerParty
President of the Senate Lidio García Colombian Liberal Party
First Vice President Honorio Henríquez Democratic Center
Second Vice President Alexander López Alternative Democratic Pole

List
Results 11 March 2018 Elections
List of current members of the Senate of Colombia
PartyTotal Votes%Seats
Democratic Center2,513,32016.4119
Radical Change2,155,48714.0716
Colombian Conservative Party1,927,32012.5814
Colombian Liberal Party1,901,93312.4214
Party of the U1,853,05412.1014
Green Alliance1,317,4298.609
Alternative Democratic Pole736,3674.805
List of Decency Coalition523,2863.413+1
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation501,4893.273
Fair and Free Colombia432,4182.813
Indigenous and Social Alternative Movement72,5910.421
Common Alternative Revolutionary Force52,5320.345
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia Movement34,9570.231
Total seats108
Source: National Civil Registry


PartySenators
Democratic Center
  • Fernando Araújo Rumié
  • María Fernanda Cabal
  • Ruby Chagüí
  • Alejandro Corrales
  • José Obdulio Gaviria
  • Amanda Rocío González
  • María del Rosario Guerra
  • Honorio Henríquez
  • Paola Holguín
  • Ernesto Macías Tovar
  • Carlos Manuel Meisel
  • Carlos Felipe Mejía
  • Nicolas Pérez Vásquez
  • Ciro Alejandro Ramírez
  • John Harold Suárez
  • Álvaro Uribe
  • Santiago Valencia
  • Paloma Valencia
  • Gabriel Velasco
Radical Change
  • Richard Aguilar
  • Ana María Castañeda
  • Emma Claudia Castellanos
  • Fabián Castillo
  • Arturo Char
  • Édgar Díaz
  • Luis Eduardo Díaz
  • Daira Galvis
  • Carlos Abraham Jiménez
  • Rodrigo Lara
  • Didier Lobo
  • Carlos Fernando Motoa
  • Temístocles Ortega
  • José Luis Pérez
  • Germán Varón
  • Antonio Luis Zabaraín
Colombian Conservative Party
  • Laureano Acuña
  • Esperanza Andrade
  • David Barguil
  • Miguel Barreto
  • Nadia Blel Scaff
  • Efraín Cepeda
  • Eduardo Enríquez Maya
  • Nora García
  • Juan Carlos García
  • Juan Diego Gómez
  • Juan Samy Merheg
  • Myriam Alicia Paredes
  • Soledad Tamayo1
  • Carlos Andrés Trujillo
Colombian Liberal Party
  • Iván Darío Agudelo
  • Fabio Amín
  • Julián Bedoya
  • Mario Castaño
  • Andrés Cristo
  • Jaime Durán Barrera
  • Laura Fortich
  • Guillermo García Realpe
  • Lidio García Turbay
  • Mauricio Gómez Amín
  • Miguel Ángel Pinto
  • Horacio José Serpa
  • Luis Fernando Velasco
  • Rodrigo Villalba Mosquera
Party of the U
  • Miguel Amín
  • Roy Barreras
  • Armando Benedetti
  • John Besaile
  • Andrés García Zuccardi
  • José Alfredo Gnecco
  • Germán Darío Hoyos
  • Juan Felipe Lemos
  • José Ritter López
  • Maritza Martínez
  • Jose David Name
  • Eduardo Pulgar
  • Roosvelt Rodríguez
  • Berner Zambrano
Green Alliance
Alternative Democratic Pole
List of Decency Coalition
Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation
  • Ana Paola Agudelo
  • Carlos Eduardo Guevara
  • Aydeé Lizarazo Cubillos
Fair and Free Colombia
  • Eduardo Pacheco
  • Edgar Palacio Mizrahi
  • John Milton Rodríguez
Common Alternative Revolutionary Force
Indigenous and Social Alternative Movement
  • Feliciano Valencia
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia Movement
  • Manuel Bitervo Palchucan

Notes

  • 1 The seat was originally won by Aída Merlano, but her election was annulled on 16 May 2019 by the Council of State who found evidence of vote-buying.[3] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Colombian Conservative Party list, Soledad Tamayo replaced her on 29 May 2019.[4]
  • 2 The seat was originally won by Leonidas Gómez, but he resigned his seat on 11 December 2018 in order to run for Governor of Santander Department.[5] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Alternative Democratic Pole party list, Wilson Arias replaced him on 26 December 2018.[6]
  • 3 Gustavo Petro did not run in the Senate elections, but as the runner-up in the presidential election, he was entitled to a seat in the Senate.[7] He aligned his Colombia Humana party with the List of Decency Coalition.
  • 4 The seat was originally won by Iván Márquez, but following the arrest of Jesús Santrich on 9 April 2018, he refused to take up his seat in the Senate,[8] and the Council of State annulled his election on 11 June 2019.[9] As the person with the next-highest number of votes on the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force party list, Israel Zúñiga replaced him on 23 July 2019.[10]

See also
  • List of Presidents of Colombia
  • List of Vice Presidents of Colombia

References
  1. "Mesa Directiva" (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Senate. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  2. "Los tres que serían elegidos en la Mesa Directiva del Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 20 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  3. "Por compra de votos anulan la elección de Aída Merlano al Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 16 May 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  4. "Exconcejala Soledad Tamayo toma la curul de Aida Merlano en el Senado". El País (in Spanish). 29 May 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  5. "Leonidas Gómez deja el Senado para aspirar a Gobernación de Santander". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  6. "Wilson Arias se posesionó como senador". El Espectador (in Spanish). 26 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  7. Reinoso Rodríguez, Guillermo (17 June 2018). "Petro, un líder de la oposición en Senado con ocho millones de votos". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  8. "'Iván Márquez' no ocupará su curul en el senado el próximo 20 de julio". El Espectador (in Spanish). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  9. "Decretan muerte política a Iván Márquez por no posesionarse en Senado". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 11 December 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  10. "¿Quién es el nuevo senador de Farc que reemplaza a Iván Márquez?". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 23 July 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
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