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Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 8 March 1998 to elect the Senate and Chamber of Representatives. [1] The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 84 of the 161 seats in the Chamber and 48 of the 102 seats in the Senate.
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Colombia is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, with the capital in Bogota.
The Senate of the Republic of Colombia is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the House of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non-rotating) four-year terms.
The Colombian Liberal Party is a centrist and social liberal political party in Colombia. It was founded as a classical liberal party but later developed a more social-democratic tradition, joining the Socialist International in 1999.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | 3,897,373 | 47.4 | 48 | –8 |
Conservative Party | 1,000,032 | 12.2 | 15 | –5 |
Conservative National Movement | 442,767 | 5.4 | 7 | +6 |
Liberal Oxygen Movement | 158,184 | 1.9 | 2 | – |
Civic Defence Movement | 127,248 | 1.5 | 2 | – |
National Popular Alliance | 111,531 | 1.4 | 1 | 0 |
Progressive National Movement | 108,607 | 1.3 | 2 | +1 |
Citizens' Movement | 107,680 | 1.3 | 1 | – |
Civic People's Convergence | 104,836 | 1.3 | 1 | – |
New Democratic Force | 100,643 | 1.2 | 1 | – |
Indigenous Social Alliance Movement | 95,523 | 1.2 | 1 | +1 |
National Democratic Reconstruction | 83,715 | 1.0 | 1 | – |
National Salvation Movement | 82,687 | 1.0 | 1 | –1 |
Bolivarian Movement for the New Colombia | 70,581 | 0.9 | 1 | – |
Vamos Colombia | 65,824 | 0.8 | 1 | – |
Christian Union Movement | 53,753 | 0.7 | 0 | –1 |
Movement '98 | 46,648 | 0.6 | 1 | – |
C4 | 44,859 | 0.5 | 1 | +1 |
Force Colombia | 44,587 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
Education and Social Change | 44,347 | 0.5 | 1 | – |
Independent Conservatism | 43,908 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
Front of Hope | 41,608 | 0.5 | 1 | – |
Colombia My Country | 40,661 | 0.5 | 1 | – |
Citizens' Participation Movement | 39,276 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
Laicists for Colombia | 38,412 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
Humbertista Movement | 37,782 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
Independent Liberal Restoration Movement | 36,194 | 0.4 | 0 | –1 |
Political Attitudes Renovation Movement | 36,194 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement | 35,856 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
The Collective Movement | 32,459 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Solidarity Option Movement | 30,952 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
National Civic Concentration | 25,967 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Independent Civic Movement | 25,387 | 0.3 | 0 | –1 |
Progressive Force | 23,961 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Communist Party | 23,613 | 0.3 | 0 | –1 |
Democratic Renovation Movement | 20,888 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
National Reserves' Alliance | 20,512 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Women 2000 | 19,791 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Colombian Community and Communal Political Movement | 19,510 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 18,224 | 0.2 | 0 | –1 |
Hands Together Movement | 17,797 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Colombian Collective Mission Movement | 17,677 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Colombian Indigenous Movement | 17,381 | 0.2 | 0 | –1 |
Metropolitan Unitary Movement | 16,363 | 0.2 | 0 | –1 |
Citizens' Convergence | 15,312 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Palenque Black Communities | 13,797 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Socialist Renovation Current | 13,254 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
19th of April Movement | 13,166 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Citizens in Training Movement | 12,845 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
For Recreation and Sport | 8,965 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
New Colombia Movement | 8,707 | 0.1 | 0 | –1 |
Democratic Integration Movement | 8,472 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
National Integration Movement | 7,737 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Serious Civic Movement for Colombia | 7,276 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Ecological Civic Party | 3,915 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Colombian Agricultural Movement | 3,381 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
People's Participation Movement | 3,241 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Ecological Orientation Movement | 1,642 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Colombian People's Party | 22,508 | 0.2 | 1 | – |
Others | 2 | – | ||
Coalitions | 609,973 | 7.7 | 7 | +5 |
Invalid/blank votes | 1,140,398 | – | – | – |
Total | 9,366,387 | 100 | 102 | 0 |
Registered voters/turnout | 20,729,473 | 45.2 | – | – |
Source: Nohlen |
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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Liberal Party | 4,022,739 | 50.0 | 84 | –4 |
Conservative Party | 1,212,419 | 15.0 | 28 | –12 |
New Democratic Force | 140,810 | 1.8 | 2 | +2 |
Independent Conservatism | 116,221 | 1.4 | 2 | +1 |
Progressive Force | 110,648 | 1.4 | 4 | 0 |
Civic People's Convergence | 109,573 | 1.4 | 2 | – |
Citizens' Movement | 90,927 | 1.1 | 1 | – |
Serious Civic Movement for Colombia | 80,528 | 1.0 | 1 | – |
New Colombia Movement | 73,348 | 0.9 | 1 | –1 |
Regional Integration Movement | 65,507 | 0.8 | 2 | +1 |
Democratic Alternative Movement | 64,695 | 0.8 | 1 | +1 |
Laicists for Colombia | 54,177 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 |
National Salvation Movement | 53,074 | 0.7 | 1 | 0 |
Force Colombia | 46,370 | 0.6 | 0 | – |
Colombian People's Party | 44,322 | 0.6 | 0 | – |
Metropolitan Unitary Movement | 44,258 | 0.6 | 0 | – |
Colombia My Country | 43,673 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
People's Participation Movement | 41,059 | 0.5 | 1 | – |
Liberal Oxygen Movement | 39,706 | 0.5 | 0 | – |
Liberal Opening Movement | 39,194 | 0.5 | 1 | – |
Front of Hope | 34,829 | 0.4 | 1 | – |
Vamos Colombia | 33,598 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Democratic Renovation Movement | 32,499 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 |
Humbertista Movement | 30,641 | 0.4 | 1 | – |
Socialist Renovation Current | 29,265 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Political Attitudes Renovation Movement | 28,279 | 0.4 | 0 | – |
Independent Civic Movement | 26,674 | 0.3 | 1 | +1 |
Citizens' Participation Movement | 23,749 | 0.3 | 0 | – |
Arena Movement | 21,043 | 0.3 | 0 | – |
Indigenous Social Alliance Movement | 21,294 | 0.3 | 2 | +1 |
C4 | 20,930 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Indigenous Authorities of Colombia | 20,377 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
Democratic Integration Movement | 19,084 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
For Recreation and Sport | 18,565 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
National Civic Concentration | 18,046 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 |
Bolivarian Movement for the New Colombia | 16,474 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Civic Defence Movement | 14,628 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Colombian Community and Communal Political Movement | 14,019 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
Education and Social Change | 13,342 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
National Movement of Pensioners | 12,933 | 0.2 | 0 | – |
People's Civic Independent Front | 10,923 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
19th of April Movement | 10,722 | 0.1 | 0 | –1 |
Movement '98 | 8,840 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Revolutionary Independent Labour Movement | 8,755 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Colombian Indigenous Movement | 7,930 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 |
The Collective Movement | 7,582 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Ecological Civic Party | 7,431 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
National Movement of Black Communities | 7,402 | 0.1 | 0 | –1 |
Citizens in Training Movement | 7,093 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
Colombian Collective Mission Movement | 5,294 | 0.1 | 0 | – |
National Democratic Reconstruction | 4,278 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Women 2000 | 3,404 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Solidarity Option Movement | 3,271 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Colombian Agricultural Movement | 1,503 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Citizens' Convergence | 1,205 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Hands Together Movement | 955 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Ecological Orientation Movement | 858 | 0.0 | 0 | – |
Communist Party | 484 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Conservative National Movement | 178,261 | 2.2 | 4 | –2 |
Others | 5 | – | ||
Coalitions | 825,166 | 10.3 | 16 | +15 |
Invalid/blank votes | 991,166 | – | – | – |
Total | 9,036,040 | 100 | 161 | –2 |
Registered voters/turnout | 20,729,473 | 43.6 | – | – |
Source: Nohlen |
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