1998 Colombian presidential election

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31 May 1998 (first round)
21 June 1998 (second round)

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Turnout

51.55% (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

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Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 31 May 1998, with a second round on 21 June. 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


Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	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

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

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