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1998 Colombian presidential election

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1998 Colombian presidential election

← 1994 31 May 1998 (first round)
21 June 1998 (second round)
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Turnout51.55% (first round)
58.76% (second round)
 
Nominee Andrés Pastrana Arango Horacio Serpa
Party Conservative Liberal
Home state Bogotá Santander
Running mate Gustavo Bell María Emma Mejía Vélez
Popular vote 6,114,752 5,658,518
Percentage 50.34% 46.58%

Winner by department, Second Round

President before election

Ernesto Samper
Liberal

Elected President

Andrés Pastrana Arango
Conservative

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 50.3% of the vote in the run-off.

Results

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First round results by Department
  Won by Horacio Serpa
  Won by Andres Pastrana
  Won by Noemí Sanín
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Horacio SerpaColombian Liberal Party3,696,33434.785,658,51846.58
Andrés Pastrana ArangoGreat Alliance for Change3,653,04834.376,114,75250.34
Noemí SanínYes Colombia2,845,75026.77
Harold Bedoya PizarroForce Colombia193,0371.82
Beatríz CuellarChristian Union Movement30,8320.29
Germán Rojas Niño19th of April Movement16,0720.15
Jorge Hernán BetancurMetapolitical Unitary Movement13,8920.13
Jesús Antonio LozanoNational Movement of Black Communities11,8340.11
Jorge PulidoPeople's Participation Movement11,5000.11
Guillermo AlemánEcological Orientation Movement9,8850.09
Efraín Díaz ValderramaCitizens in Training Movement9,2550.09
Guillermo NannetiProgressive National Movement–Coalition for Peace8,8620.08
Francisco Cordoba ZarthaSeventh Ballot Movement5,8910.06
Blank votes122,4311.15373,6593.08
Total10,628,623100.0012,146,929100.00
Valid votes10,628,62398.8612,146,92999.11
Invalid votes122,8421.14108,7940.89
Total votes10,751,465100.0012,255,723100.00
Registered voters/turnout20,856,15051.5520,857,80158.76
Source: Nohlen

References

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