Colombian peace agreement referendum, 2016

Do you support the final agreement to end the conflict and build a stable and lasting peace?

Location

Date

October 2, 2016

Results
	Votes	%
Yes	6,382,901	7001497800000000000♠49.78%
No	6,438,552	7001502200000000000♠50.22%
Valid votes	12,821,453	7001981500000000000♠98.15%
Invalid or blank votes	241,464	7000185000000000000♠1.85%
Total votes	13,062,917	100.00%
Registered voters/turnout	34,899,945	7001374300000000000♠37.43%

Results by department

Yes No

The Colombian peace plebiscite to ratify the final agreement on the termination of the Colombian conflict between the Colombian government and the FARC guerillas was held on October 2, 2016. It failed with 50.2% voting against it and 49.8% voting in favor.

The aim of this vote was the direct approval or rejection by voters of the agreements signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cartagena de Indias, September 27, 2016. The peace negotiations began on August 26, 2012, in Havana, and concluded on August 25, 2016. The final agreement included topics of rural reform, political participation, the end of hostilities, solutions to the production of illicit drugs, the rights of victims, and the mechanisms of implementation and verification. On July 18, 2016 the Constitutional Court approved the holding of a national plebiscite to validate the peace agreement. The ballot paper consisted of a single question for voters to approve or reject the signed peace agreements:

¿Apoya el acuerdo final para terminación del conflicto y construcción de una paz estable y duradera?

(Do you support the final agreement to end the conflict and build a stable and lasting peace?)

For the agreement to be approved, the "Yes" votes had to account for at least 13% of the electorate (i.e., 4,396,626 votes out of a total of 34,899,945 registered voters) and outnumber the "No" votes.

President Juan Manuel Santos, who was a promoter of the peace talks, announced the support for the 'Yes' option. The 'Yes' campaign received the support of many members of the Colombian community from the political left (Gustavo Petro, César Gaviria, Antonio Navarro Wolff, Piedad Cordoba), centre (Antanas Mockus, Sergio Fajardo, Lucho Garzon, Claudia López Hernández) and right (German Vargas Lleras, Enrique Peñalosa, Mauricio Cárdenas). The political parties that were in favour are the Alternative Democratic Pole, the Social Party of National Unity, Radical Change, the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation, the Indigenous Social Alliance Movement, the Green Party of Colombia, the Colombian Conservative Party and the Liberal Party of Colombia.

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