1997 Bolivian general election

1997 Bolivian general election

Registered3,252,501
Turnout71.36% ( 0.80pp)
Presidential election
1 June 1997 (popular vote)
6 August 1997 (Congress vote)
 
Nominee Hugo Banzer Juan Carlos Durán Remedios Loza
Party ADNPDCNFR MNR CONDEPA
Running mate Jorge Quiroga Percy Fernández Gonzalo Ruiz Paz
Electoral vote 118 50
Popular vote 484,705 396,235 373,528
Percentage 22.26% 18.20% 17.16%

 
Nominee Jaime Paz Zamora Ivo Kuljis
Party MIRFRI UCS
Running mate Samuel Doria Medina Juan Chahín
Popular vote 365,005 350,728
Percentage 16.77% 16.11%


President before election

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
MNR

Elected President

Hugo Banzer
ADN

Chamber of Deputies
1 June 1997

All 130 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
Party Seats +/–
ADNPDCNFR

32 −3
MNR

26 −26
MIRFRI

23 +23
UCS

21 +1
CONDEPA

19 +6
MBL

5 −2
IU

4 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chamber of Senators
1 June 1997

All 36 seats in the Chamber of Senators
Party Seats +/–
ADNPDCNFR

11 +3
MIRFRI

7 +7
MNR

4 −13
CONDEPA

3 +2
UCS

2 −5
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

General elections were held in Bolivia on 1 June 1997. 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.