Bolivian presidential election, 1997

The 1997 Bolivian presidential election took place on 1 June 1997. The election took place on the same day as the 1997 Bolivian legislative election. No candidate won over half of the vote, therefore the National Congress of Bolivia elected the president from the two candidates who had received the most votes in the election. Hugo Bánzer Suarez was elected president.

Campaign

Presidential election results^[1]

CONDEPA – Conscience of Fatherland

ARBOL – Bolivian Renewal Alliance

UCS – Solidarity Civic Union

AND – Nationalist Democratic Action

PDC – Christian Democratic Party

NFR – New Republican Force

FSB – Bolivian Socialist Falange

KND – National Democratic Katarismo

MIR – Revolutionary Left Movement

PCML – Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist)

Eje de C – Patriotic National Convergency Axis

MNR – Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

PDB – Bolivian Democratic Party

ASD – Alternative to Democratic Socialism

IU – United Left. Electoral alliance formed by
Movement of the Revolutionary Left-Masses, MIR-M;
Communist Party of Bolivia, PCB;
Revolutionary Workers' Party-Unified, POR-U;
Socialist Party-One, PS-1;
Movement for Socialism- Unzaguista, MAS-U;
Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist, POR-TP;
Katarist United Liberation Front, FULKA;
National Salvation Front, FSN;
Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, ASP.

MBL – Free Bolivia Movement

VSB – Socialist Vanguard of Bolivia

Congressional confirmation (August, 5 1997)^[2]

Results by Department ^[3]

References