Colombian presidential election, 1998

Colombian presidential election, 1998
Colombia
31 May and 21 June 1998

 
Nominee Andrés Pastrana Arango Horacio Serpa
Party Conservative Party Liberal Party
Popular vote 6,114,752 5,658,518
Percentage 51.94% 48.06%

President before election

Ernesto Samper
Liberal Party

Elected President

Andrés Pastrana Arango
Conservative Party

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Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 31 May 1998, with a second round on 21 June.[1] Although Horacio Serpa of the Liberal Party received the most votes in the first round, the result was a victory for Andrés Pastrana Arango of the Great Alliance for Change, who received 51.9% of the vote in the run-off.[2]

Results

Candidate Party First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Horacio SerpaLiberal Party3,696,33434.45,658,51848.1
Andrés Pastrana ArangoGreat Alliance for Change3,653,04834.06,114,75251.9
Noemí SanínYes Colombia2,845,75026.4
Harold Bedoya PizarroForce Colombia193,0371.8
Beatríz Cuellar 30,8320.3
Germán Rojas Niño 16,0720.2
Jorge Hernán Betancur 13,8920.1
Jesús Antonio Lozano 11,8340.1
Jorge Pulido 11,5000.1
Guillermo Alemán 9,8850.1
Efraín Díaz Valderrama 9,2250.1
Guillermo Nanneti 8,8620.1
Francisco Cordoba Zartha 5,8910.1
Invalid/blank votes245,273536,837
Total10,751,46510012,310,107100
Registered voters/turnout20,856,15051.620,857,80159.0
Source: Nohlen

References

  1. Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p306 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. Nohlen, p357
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