Colombian presidential election, 1994

29 May and 19 June 1994



Nominee	Ernesto Samper	Andrés Pastrana Arango
Party	Liberal Party	Conservative Party
Popular vote	3,733,366	3,576,781
Percentage	51.07%	48.93%

President before election

César Gaviria
Liberal Party

Elected President

Ernesto Samper
Liberal Party

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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]

During the campaign, the Liberal Party was forced to seek additional funding from the Cali Cartel, which resulted in the Proceso 8000.

Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
Candidate	Party	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, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p306 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
↑ Nohlen, p356

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