Colombian presidential election, 1998

31 May and 21 June 1998

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
Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
Horacio Serpa	Liberal Party	3,696,334	34.4	5,658,518	48.1
Andrés Pastrana Arango	Great Alliance for Change	3,653,048	34.0	6,114,752	51.9
Noemí Sanín	Yes Colombia	2,845,750	26.4
Harold Bedoya Pizarro	Force Colombia	193,037	1.8
Beatríz Cuellar		30,832	0.3
Germán Rojas Niño		16,072	0.2
Jorge Hernán Betancur		13,892	0.1
Jesús Antonio Lozano		11,834	0.1
Jorge Pulido		11,500	0.1
Guillermo Alemán		9,885	0.1
Efraín Díaz Valderrama		9,225	0.1
Guillermo Nanneti		8,862	0.1
Francisco Cordoba Zartha		5,891	0.1
Invalid/blank votes		245,273	–	536,837	–
Total		10,751,465	100	12,310,107	100
Registered voters/turnout		20,856,150	51.6	20,857,801	59.0
Source: Nohlen

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

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