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La Patria Boba ( Origin in the history of the Colombian vote)
The beginning of the Colombian vote has its origins in the time known as "La Patria boba", in which electoral systems were based on indirect and public suffrage and on a universal vote that was highly restricted or with very low electoral participation of the population. -
Constitution of 1832
After the secession of Venezuela and Ecuador, the 1832 constitution was given the task of determining which individuals could be determined as nationals to exercise electoral activities. The constitution determined that simply being a citizen was not enough, you had to be a man over 21 years old with property and married. -
Constitution of 1843
In 1843 a new constitution was passed that dictated as citizens only free men born in Colombian territory, but only left the right to participate in electoral events to men over 21 years of age with properties that had an annual income of at least one hundred fifty pesos. The constitution gave continuity to the notion of slavery. -
Constitution of 1853
The constitution of 1853 decided to make several changes, such as the elimination of slavery. They also declared as citizens all men over 21 years of age, married and born in the national territory. It is important to emphasize that in these times only 5% of men had the right to vote. The rest could not thanks to cultural or economical facts -
Presidential elections by universal suffrage
In 1856, due to the reforms of the 1853 constitution, which dictated that the popular vote for the most important public offices and the vote to elect the president and vice president of the Republic was established, there was for the first time in the country an election for president through universal sulfrage and the winner was Mariano Ospina Rodríguez -
Constitution of Liberals and Conservatives
In 1858 the constitution was given that gave way to the participation of liberals and conservatives in which universal sulfrage was still allowed for men who were born in the national state, over 21 years old and married. -
Constitution of 1863
The electoral processes were affected due to the war that broke out in the years 1859 to 1861. This meant that in a new constitution in 1863, it was proposed that the central power was not a concept that would determine the conditions for an electoral process, but that it gave freedom to each federal state to establish its laws. -
Conservative and Centralist Constitution
The year 1886 was of great importance for the electoral history in Colombia since in this year a constitution was born that declared as citizens Colombian men over twenty-one years of age who had a profession, trade or occupation, however to have the right to sulfrage these characteristics were not sufficient. You had to be a man with the ability to read and write and have an annual income of more than five hundred pesos or properties that cost more than fifteen hundred pesos. -
Constitution of 1910
In 1910 the constitution again had a change. the President of the Republic could be elected directly by all those who were considered citizens. -
Universal sulfrage for all men
As the title says, In 1936 universal suffrage was established for all men, an event that has great repercussions in Colombian electoral history. -
Women and electoral elections
In 1957 it is when women finally obtained the right to vote for the first time in Colombia and all electoral rights. The right to vote covered all men and women over twenty-one years of age. -
Adult = 18 y / o
President Alfonso López Michelsen introduced in 1975 a reform to the Constitution in which the age of majority is acquired at eighteen years of age. -
Popular election of mayors and governors
Finally in 1986 popular election of mayors and governors takes place in national territory, elections that are still taking place and are part of the current electoral system.
