1994 Colombian presidential election

1994 Colombian presidential election
Turnout	33.95% (first round); 43.32% (second round)
	Winner by department, Second Round
President before election; César Gaviria; Liberal	Elected President ; Ernesto Samper; Liberal

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 50.57% of the vote in the run-off.

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.^[2] 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[]

First Round Results by Department

Ernesto Samper Won

Andres Pastrana won


Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Ernesto Samper	Colombian Liberal Party	2,623,210	45.30	3,733,336	50.57
	Andrés Pastrana Arango	Colombian Conservative Party	2,604,771	44.98	3,576,781	48.45
	Antonio Navarro Wolff	Colombian Compromise	219,241	3.79
	Regina Betancur de Liska		64,131	1.11
	Miguel Alfredo Maza Marquez	Civic People's Convergence	55,190	0.95
	Alberto Mendoza Morales	National Convergence–Patriotic Union	34,437	0.59
	Enrique Parejo Gonzalez	Democratic Alternative	29,246	0.50
	Guillermo Alemán	Ecological Orientation Movement	22,923	0.40
	Gloria Gaitán	Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Movement	17,397	0.30
	José Antonio Cortes Huertas	Christian Civic Commitment to the Community	11,704	0.20
	Miguel Zamora Avila	Let's Protest	9,059	0.16
	José Galat	Moral Front	9,055	0.16
	Doris de Castro	Independent Christian Movement	6,020	0.10
	Luis Rodríguez Orjuela	Progressive National Movement	5,711	0.10
	Oscar Rojas Masso	We are Free	4,368	0.08
	José Guillermo Barnosa Millan	Organisation for National Peace	3,797	0.07
	Mario Diazgranados Llinas	Christian CGT	3,319	0.06
	Efraín Toress Plazas	Believe – No to the War	2,637	0.05
Blank votes			65,116	1.12	72,536	0.98
Total			5,791,332	100.00	7,382,653	100.00

Valid votes			5,791,332	99.48	7,382,653	99.39
Invalid votes			29,999	0.52	45,089	0.61
Total votes			5,821,331	100.00	7,427,742	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			17,146,597	33.95	17,146,597	43.32
Source: Nohlen

References[]

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

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[1] Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-19928-358-3.

[2] "El proceso 8.000, a 21 años del escándalo mayor". El Espectador. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2016.

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