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WRAP: Colombia's presidential contest heads to June 21 run-off

VIDEO SHOWS: WRAP OF EDITS RELATED TO COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENTIAL POLLS HELD ON MAY 31, 2026

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A WRAP AND CONTAINS NO NEW MATERIAL. EDIT NUMBERS AND SCRIPT INFORMATION ARE INCLUDED IN THE SHOTLIST

SHOWS: Colombians turned out to vote on Sunday (May 31) in what was likely to be the first round of the presidential election. More than 40 million Colombians were eligible to vote. Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local time (1300 GMT), with citizens in the capital city of Bogota and the Caribbean city of Barranquilla casting their early votes. (4784-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/POLLS OPENING)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VOTERS ARRIVING AT POLLING STATION

2. VOTERS AT REGISTRATION TABLE, CASTING BALLOT AT BOOTH

3. VOTERS AT REGISTRATION TABLE

BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

4. VOTERS QUEUING AT REGISTRATION TABLE

Outsider and right-wing candidate Abelardo de la Espriella cast his vote on Sunday as he sought to become Colombia's next president with a promise to crack down on illegal armed groups, drug trafficking, and crime. (4788-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/DE LA ESPRIELLA-VOTE)

BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

5. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ABELARDO DE LA ESPRIELLA, STANDING AT POLLING TABLE AS SUPPORTERS CHEER

6. DE LA ESPRIELLA SHOWING HIS BALLOT PAPER, HIS WIFE, ANA LUCIA PINEDA, TAKING HIS BALLOT PAPER AND CASTING HIS VOTE, DE LA ESPRIELLA HUGGING WIFE

As Colombia's outgoing president Gustavo Petro cast his vote, he urged citizens to monitor the vote count in the polarised presidential election. Voters were choosing between a leftist pledging to expand reforms begun by the current government, Ivan Cepeda, an independent businessman promising a security crackdown, Abelardo de la Espriella, and a right-wing senator seeking to become the country’s first female leader, Paloma Valencia. (4787-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/PETRO)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT TV – Access all)

7. VARIOUS OF COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT, GUSTAVO PETRO, AT POLLING TABLE

8. PETRO AT BOOTH

9. PETRO SHOWING HIS BALLOT, CASTING HIS BALLOT

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT, GUSTAVO PETRO, SAYING:

"So I urge citizens to go to these 120,000 tables to monitor the vote counting, as electoral witnesses — hundreds of thousands, hopefully, one or two million citizens — to ensure that what the table counted from the ballots cast, whatever the result may be, is actually what's reflected in the final tally sheets and the final result."

Left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda turned out to vote in the presidential election on Sunday. Cepeda, a 63-year-old senator, had been leading opinion polls but looked likely to fall short of the 50%-plus support needed to avoid a June run-off. (4801-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/CEPEDA-VOTE)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

11. SECURITY PROTECTING PRESIDENTIAL LEFT-WING CANDIDATE, IVAN CEPEDA, OUTSIDE POLLING STATION

12. CEPEDA AT BOOTH

13. CEPEDA CASTING HIS BALLOT

14. CEPEDA SPEAKING DURING NEWS CONFERENCE

15. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CANDIDATE FOR PACTO HISTORICO COALITION, IVAN CEPEDA, SAYING:

"We hope that today will consolidate democracy in Colombia and serve to express clearly our trust in the Colombian people. This trust stems from our certainty that, in these years, the political awareness of the citizens and the people has grown."

Right-wing presidential candidate Paloma Valencia cast her vote in the country's first-round presidential election on Sunday, accompanied by her daughter at the polling station. A lawyer and philosopher, Valencia was seeking to become Colombia's first female president. (4803-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/VALENCIA-VOTE)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

16. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, PALOMA VALENCIA, AND HER DAUGHTER ARRIVING AT POLLING STATION

17. VALENCIA PASSING BALLOT TO HER DAUGHTER AT BOOTH / HER DAUGHTER SHOWING BALLOT PAPER

18. DAUGHTER OF VALENCIA HELPING HER MOTHER CAST THE BALLOT

19. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, PALOMA VALENCIA, SAYING:

"We are convinced that our campaign embodies the ethical and moral values that Colombia needs. Our campaign stands for the honesty and hard work expected of someone who wants to be president. No to showboating politics and alliances with criminals. No to photo ops with criminals. Our path is one of hard work and love for Colombia."

In the western Valle del Cauca department, members of Colombia's indigenous communities turned out to cast their ballots. (4802-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/INDIGENOUS)

CORINTO, CAUCA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

20. MEMBERS OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY QUEUING TO ENTER POLLING STATION

21. VOTERS ENTERING POLLING STATION

22. VOTERS AT POLLING TABLE

23. VARIOUS OF VOTERS QUEUING

24. VOTERS QUEUING AT POLLING TABLE

Colombian authorities called Sunday's polls peaceful, as voters decided between a leftist pledging to expand reforms, an independent businessman promising a security crackdown, and a right-wing senator seeking to become the country’s first female leader. (4805-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/POLLS CLOSING)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

25. POLLING OFFICIAL PICKING UP BALLOT BOX S STANDING UP AND CLAPPING AFTER POLLS CLOSED

26. VARIOUS OF OFFICIALS AT DIFFERENT POLLING STATIONS OPENING BALLOT BOXES

27. POLLING OFFICIALS PLACING BALLOTS ON TABLE

28. POLLING OFFICIALS CHECKING LIST

29. POLLING OFFICIALS COUNTING BALLOT PAPERS

Results from the initial round of voting on Sunday showed the right-wing outsider De La Espriella looking set to compete in a run-off election for president against the leftist Cepeda. Speaking to his supporters from a large boat that pulled alongside an esplanade on the Magdalena River in coastal Barranquilla, De La Espriella vowed to “defend the homeland with reason or with force." (4954-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/DE LA ESPRIELLA-STATEMENT)

BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

30. VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS WATCHING STAGE ON BOAT ON MAGDALENA RIVER

31. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN RIGHT-WING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, ABELARDO DE LA ESPRIELLA, SAYING:

"We are not going to allow that Gustavo Petro, Ivan Cepeda, and the rest of the swamp weeds, those hardened bandits, by using the combination of all forms of struggle, steal the will of the people. We are going to defend democracy by reason or by force."

32. SUPPORTERS CELEBRATING, PYROTECHNICS ON STAGE

Cepeda and his allies said on Sunday that they would wait for counts to be formally confirmed. The left-wing candidate told supporters in Bogota that irregularities may have occurred at an unknown number of polling stations. (4937-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/CEPEDA-REACTION)

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (MAY 31, 2026) (REUTERS – Access all)

33. CEPEDA ARRIVING ON STAGE, WAVING

34. CEPEDA AT LECTERN WAVING AT SUPPORTERS

35. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIA'S PACTO HISTORICO'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, IVAN CEPEDA, SAYING:

“Only when the vote-counting commissions have completely clarified this matter — clearly and rigorously clarified it — will we make a statement about the results of this election.”

36. CEPEDA LEAVING

Sitting Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a Cepeda ally, said on Sunday evening that he does not accept the results of the initial vote count, and will wait for final results reviewed by judges. (4943-COLOMBIA-ELECTION/PETRO)

INTERNET (MAY 31, 2026) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE – Access all) (MUTE)

37. SCREENSHOT OF POST ON X BY COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT, GUSTAVO PETRO READING (Spanish):

"The so-called transmitted count has no binding force. Its data are not public norm. As president, I do not accept the results of the pre-count from the private firm of the Bautista brothers, because the algorithms of the counting and scrutiny software should have remained static, yet in the last week they were altered on three occasions and added 800,000 ballots for individuals who are not in the official census presented.

There are two censuses at this moment: the official one and that of the Bautista brothers' software, which has 800,000 additional people.

The already impugned polling stations demonstrate that hundreds of thousands of votes were added without the existence of voters.

Therefore, and in accordance with the law, the binding results that the president will heed and accept are those of the scrutiny commissions directed by the judges of the Republic.”