1998 Colombian presidential election
Results
Table:
Candidate

Party

First round

Second round

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

Looking at the table titled 1998 Colombian presidential election in the "Results" section, provide an answer in a short sentence to the question below: What's the result of the 1998 Colombian presidential election? Return your answer as JSON: {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}.

answer: Horacio Serpa of the Liberal Party received the most votes in the first round, but the result was a victory for Andrés Pastrana Arango of the Great Alliance for Change, who received 51.9% of the vote in the run-off.