1997 Bolivian general election

1997 Bolivian general election

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Registered	3,252,791
Presidential election
Nominee Hugo Banzer Juan Carlos Durán Remedios Loza Party ADN–PDC–NFR MNR CONDEPA Running mate Jorge Quiroga Percy Fernández [es] Gonzalo Ruiz Paz Popular vote 484,705 396,235 373,528 Percentage 22.26% 18.20% 17.16%   Nominee Jaime Paz Zamora Ivo Kuljis Fuchner Party MIR–FRI UCS Running mate Samuel Doria Medina Juan Chahín Popular vote 365,005 350,728 Percentage 16.77% 16.11%
Results by department (left) and province (right)
President before election Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada MNR Elected President Hugo Banzer ADN

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General elections were held in Bolivia on 1 June 1997.^[1] As no candidate for the presidency received over 50% of the vote, the National Congress was required to elect a president on 4 August. Hugo Banzer of Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) was subsequently elected. Whilst the ADN emerged as the largest party in Congress, it failed to win a majority of seats, and formed a coalition government with the Revolutionary Left Movement, Conscience of Fatherland and the Solidarity Civic Unity.^[2]