Colombian presidential election, 1994

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

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]

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

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		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

1. Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-19928-358-3.
2. Nohlen (2005). p. 356.
3. "El proceso 8.000, a 21 años del escándalo mayor". El Espectador. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.