1998 Armenian presidential election
Results

1998 Armenian presidential election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: None

Candidate	Party	First round	Second round

Votes	%	Votes	%

Robert Kocharyan	Independent	545,938	38.5	908,613	58.9

Karen Demirchyan	Socialist Party	431,967	30.5	618,764	40.1

Vazgen Manukyan	National Democratic Union	172,449	12.2

Sergey Badalyan	Armenian Communist Party	155,023	10.9

Paruyr Hayrikyan	Union for National Self-Determination	76,212	5.4

David Shahnazaryan	Independent	6,798	0.5

Artashes Geghamyan	National Accord Party	6,314	0.4

Vigen Khachatryan	Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia	3,999	0.3

Hrant Khachatryan	Constitutional Rights Union	2,943	0.2

Aram Gaspar Sargsyan	Democratic Party of Armenia	2,710	0.2

Yuri Mkrtchyan	Independent	2,511	0.2

Ashot Bleyan	New Path	1,559	0.1

None of the above	9,509	0.7	14,890	1.0

Invalid/blank votes	38,177	25,435

Total	1,456,109	100	1,567,702	100

Source: Nohlen et al.

Sentence(s)

The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who won 58.9% of the vote in the second round.

final_sentence: The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who won 58.9% of the vote in the second round.