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Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
Horacio Serpa | Liberal Party | 3,696,334 | 34.4 | 5,658,518 | 48.1 |
Andrés Pastrana Arango | Great Alliance for Change | 3,653,048 | 34.0 | 6,114,752 | 51.9 |
Noemí Sanín | Yes Colombia | 2,845,750 | 26.4 | ||
Harold Bedoya Pizarro | Force Colombia | 193,037 | 1.8 | ||
Beatríz Cuellar | 30,832 | 0.3 | |||
Germán Rojas Niño | 16,072 | 0.2 | |||
Jorge Hernán Betancur | 13,892 | 0.1 | |||
Jesús Antonio Lozano | 11,834 | 0.1 | |||
Jorge Pulido | 11,500 | 0.1 | |||
Guillermo Alemán | 9,885 | 0.1 | |||
Efraín Díaz Valderrama | 9,225 | 0.1 | |||
Guillermo Nanneti | 8,862 | 0.1 | |||
Francisco Cordoba Zartha | 5,891 | 0.1 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 245,273 | – | 536,837 | – | |
Total | 10,751,465 | 100 | 12,310,107 | 100 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 20,856,150 | 51.6 | 20,857,801 | 59.0 | |
Source: Nohlen |
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