1998 Colombian presidential election
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| Turnout | 51.55% (first round) 58.76% (second round) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 50.3% of the vote in the run-off.
Results
Won by Horacio Serpa
Won by Andres Pastrana
Won by Noemí Sanín
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Horacio Serpa | Colombian Liberal Party | 3,696,334 | 34.78 | 5,658,518 | 46.58 | |
| Andrés Pastrana Arango | Great Alliance for Change | 3,653,048 | 34.37 | 6,114,752 | 50.34 | |
| Noemí Sanín | Yes Colombia | 2,845,750 | 26.77 | |||
| Harold Bedoya Pizarro | Force Colombia | 193,037 | 1.82 | |||
| Beatríz Cuellar | Christian Union Movement | 30,832 | 0.29 | |||
| Germán Rojas Niño | 19th of April Movement | 16,072 | 0.15 | |||
| Jorge Hernán Betancur | Metapolitical Unitary Movement | 13,892 | 0.13 | |||
| Jesús Antonio Lozano | National Movement of Black Communities | 11,834 | 0.11 | |||
| Jorge Pulido | People's Participation Movement | 11,500 | 0.11 | |||
| Guillermo Alemán | Ecological Orientation Movement | 9,885 | 0.09 | |||
| Efraín Díaz Valderrama | Citizens in Training Movement | 9,255 | 0.09 | |||
| Guillermo Nanneti | Progressive National Movement–Coalition for Peace | 8,862 | 0.08 | |||
| Francisco Cordoba Zartha | Seventh Ballot Movement | 5,891 | 0.06 | |||
| Blank votes | 122,431 | 1.15 | 373,659 | 3.08 | ||
| Total | 10,628,623 | 100.00 | 12,146,929 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 10,628,623 | 98.86 | 12,146,929 | 99.11 | ||
| Invalid votes | 122,842 | 1.14 | 108,794 | 0.89 | ||
| Total votes | 10,751,465 | 100.00 | 12,255,723 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 20,856,150 | 51.55 | 20,857,801 | 58.76 | ||
| Source: Nohlen | ||||||
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
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