1994 Colombian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 29 May 1994, with a second round on 19 June.[1] The result was a victory for Ernesto Samper of the Liberal Party, who received 51.1% of the vote in the run-off.[2]
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Samper's election was tainted by accusations during the campaign and afterwards that his Liberal Party had sought funding from the Cali Cartel. This resulted in the Proceso 8000 investigation, which found several of Samper's close associates within the party guilty, although Samper himself was absolved of any wrongdoing.[3] However, the scandal badly damaged his presidency and his party, and resulted in a grand coalition of opposition politicians standing against and defeating the Liberal Party at the following election in 1998; Samper was Colombia's last Liberal president.
Results
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Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
Ernesto Samper | Liberal Party | 2,623,210 | 45.3 | 3,733,336 | 51.1 |
Andrés Pastrana Arango | Conservative Party | 2,604,771 | 45.0 | 3,576,781 | 48.9 |
Antonio Navarro Wolff | Colombian Compromise | 219,241 | 3.8 | ||
Regina Betancur de Liska | Metapolitical Unitary Movement | 64,131 | 1.1 | ||
Miguel Alfredo Maza Marquez | Civic People's Convergence | 55,190 | 1.0 | ||
Alberto Mendoza Morales | National Convergence–Patriotic Union | 34,437 | 0.6 | ||
Enrique Parejo Gonzalez | ADN | 29,246 | 0.5 | ||
Guillermo Alemán | Ecological Orientation Movement | 22,923 | 0.4 | ||
Gloria Gaitán | Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Movement | 17,397 | 0.3 | ||
José Antonio Cortes Huertas | Christian Civic Commitment to the Community | 11,704 | 0.2 | ||
Miguel Zamora Avila | Let's Protest | 9,059 | 0.2 | ||
José Galat | Moral Front | 9,055 | 0.2 | ||
Doris de Castro | Independent Christian Movement | 6,020 | 0.1 | ||
Luis Rodríguez Orjuela | Progressive National Movement | 5,711 | 0.1 | ||
Oscar Rojas Masso | We are Free | 4,368 | 0.1 | ||
José Guillermo Barnosa Millan | Organisation for National Peace | 3,797 | 0.1 | ||
Mario Diazgranados Llinas | Christian CGT | 3,319 | 0.1 | ||
Efraín Toress Plazas | Believe – No to the War | 2,637 | 0.0 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 95,115 | – | 117,625 | – | |
Total | 5,821,331 | 100 | 7,427,742 | 100 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 17,146,597 | 34.0 | 17,146,597 | 43.3 | |
Source: Nohlen |
References
- Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-19928-358-3.
- Nohlen (2005). p. 356.
- "El proceso 8.000, a 21 años del escándalo mayor". El Espectador. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.