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General elections were held in Ecuador on 31 May 1998, with a second round of the presidential elections on 12 July. [1] The result was a victory for Jamil Mahuad of the Popular Democracy (DP) party, who won the run-off with 51.2% of the vote. [2] The DP alliance also emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 32 of the 120 seats. [3]
Following the 1996 general elections, President Abdalá Bucaram was removed from office by Congress nine months later on grounds of mental incapacity. Fabian Alarcon thereupon took his place as caretaker Head of State.
The leading contestants of the six (including two women) vying for the presidency were Jamil Mahuad (DP), the mayor of Quito, and Álvaro Noboa (Ecuadorian Roldosist Party), a wealthy businessman. Campaign debates were marked by personal accusations of drug links and threatened lawsuits between the two rivals, alongside statements on substantive policy questions relating primarily to corruption and the country's ailing economy. Problems in this latter sector (high inflation, budget deficit) had been aggravated by the sociological and infrastructural damage caused by the climatic phenomenon known as El Niño and the worldwide drop in oil prices, Ecuador's main export earner. Mahuad advocated an intense program of private investment to achieve a 5% annual growth rate, privatizations, job creation and housing construction.
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Jamil Mahuad | Popular Democracy | 1,342,114 | 34.92 | 2,243,000 | 51.17 | |
| Álvaro Noboa | Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 1,022,667 | 26.61 | 2,140,481 | 48.83 | |
| Rodrigo Borja Cevallos | Democratic Left | 619,581 | 16.12 | |||
| Freddy Ehlers | Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country | 566,917 | 14.75 | |||
| Rosalía Arteaga | Independent Movement for an Authentic Republic | 195,000 | 5.07 | |||
| Maria Eugenia Lima | Democratic People's Movement | 97,522 | 2.54 | |||
| Total | 3,843,801 | 100.00 | 4,383,481 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 3,843,801 | 84.71 | 4,383,481 | 88.38 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 694,021 | 15.29 | 576,594 | 11.62 | ||
| Total votes | 4,537,822 | 100.00 | 4,960,075 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 7,072,496 | 64.16 | 7,072,496 | 70.13 | ||
| Source: Nohlen | ||||||
| Party | First round | Second round | Seats | +/– | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
| Social Christian Party | 839,567 | 23.80 | 5,114,369 | 23.49 | 28 | +1 | |
| Popular Democracy | 669,473 | 18.98 | 6,008,940 | 27.60 | 35 | +24 | |
| Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | 628,265 | 17.81 | 4,429,114 | 20.34 | 22 | +3 | |
| Democratic Left | 544,088 | 15.42 | 3,006,737 | 13.81 | 17 | +13 | |
| MUPP–PSFA | 325,365 | 9.22 | 127,891 | 0.59 | 8 | – | |
| Conservative Party | 184,048 | 5.22 | 3 | +2 | |||
| Democratic People's Movement | 151,096 | 4.28 | 980,253 | 4.50 | 2 | 0 | |
| Alfarista Radical Front | 54,137 | 1.53 | 559,548 | 2.57 | 2 | – | |
| National Alfarismo Party | 51,515 | 1.46 | 0 | – | |||
| Concentration of People's Forces | 37,507 | 1.06 | 241,002 | 1.11 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ecuadorian Revolutionary Popular Action | 28,837 | 0.82 | 180,399 | 0.83 | 0 | –2 | |
| Latin American People's Union | 14,043 | 0.40 | 145,410 | 0.67 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parties and independents | 980,253 | 4.50 | 3 | – | |||
| Total | 3,527,941 | 100.00 | 21,773,916 | 100.00 | 121 | +39 | |
| Valid votes | 3,527,941 | 77.75 | 2,525,491 | 72.60 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,009,881 | 22.25 | 953,033 | 27.40 | |||
| Total votes | 4,537,822 | 100.00 | 3,478,524 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 7,072,496 | 64.16 | 7,072,496 | 49.18 | |||
| Source: Nohlen, OPLAL | |||||||
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