Colombian presidential election, 1986

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Colombian presidential election, 1986
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Nominee Virgilio Barco Vargas Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
Party Liberal Conservative
Home state Norte de Santander Bogotá
Popular vote4,214,510 2,588,050
Percentage58.7% 36.0%

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Winner by department
President before election

Belisario Betancur
Conservative

Elected President

Virgilio Barco Vargas
Liberal

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Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 25 May 1986. [1] The result was a victory for Virgilio Barco Vargas of the Liberal Party, who received 58.7% of the vote. [2]

Colombia Country in South America

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.

Virgilio Barco Vargas President of Colombia

Virgilio Barco Vargas was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 27th President of Colombia serving from 7 August 1986 to 7 August 1990.

Colombian Liberal Party political party

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.

Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Virgilio Barco Vargas Liberal Party 4,214,51058.7
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado Conservative Party–National Participation Movement2,588,05036.0
Jaime Pardo Leal Patriotic Union 328,7524.6
Regina Betancur de Liska Metapolitical Unitary Movement 46,8110.7
Juan David Pérez GaviriaHumanist Party2290.0
Others1,2610.0
Invalid/blank votes50,324–
Total7,229,937100
Registered voters/turnout15,839,75445.6
Source: Nohlen

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References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p305 ISBN   978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p354
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