1998 Colombian Presidential Election
31 May 1998 · Two rounds · two-round vote
Andrés Pastrana Arango won in the runoff with 50.34% against Horacio Serpa on 46.58%. Turnout 51.5%.
President before
Ernesto Samper
Liberal
Elected President
Andrés Pastrana Arango
Conservative
Winning share
50.3%
second round
Turnout
51.5%
The result
| 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% | — | — |
| Beatriz 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 Pulecio | 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 Córdoba Zartha | Seventh Ballot Movement | 5.891 | 0.06% | — | — |