STORY: Colombia's legislative elections delivered a divided Congress on Sunday.
Preliminary tallies put former President Álvaro Uribe's right-wing Democratic Center and President Gustavo Petro's leftist Historic Pact on track to secure the largest blocs in the Senate and the House.
But both fell short of an outright majority, in a contest marked by low voter turnout...
underscoring the country's increasingly fragmented political landscape.
Traditional parties were also expected to secure representation.
Analysts had predicted the vote would be divided among some two dozen parties, likely forcing the next president to form a coalition government.
Voters also chose candidates for May's presidential race.
Senator Paloma Valencia won the right-wing primary, Petro ally Roy Barreras emerged as the left's pick, and former Bogotá mayor Claudia López won the centrist contest.
They will face additional candidates who skipped the primaries and are running directly in the first round.
More than 41 million Colombians were eligible to vote, though abstention topped 50%.
The elections were mostly peaceful, with heavy security deployed at more than 13,000 polling stations.
President Petro had raised concerns about the vote-counting software ahead of the election, but electoral authorities insisted the process was transparent and open to verification.
