Colombian presidential election, 1982

Colombian presidential election, 1982. The election was held on May 30, 1982.

Candidate	Party	Votes cast
Dr Belisario Betancur Cuartas	Partido Conservador Colombian Conservative Party The Colombian Conservative Party , is a conservative political party in Colombia. The party was unofficially founded by a group of Revolutionary Commoners during the Revolutionary War for Independence from the Spanish Monarchy and later formally established during the Greater Colombia...	3,189,278
Dr Alfonso López Michelsen Alfonso López Michelsen Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician, lawyer and journalist. Lopez Michelsen was President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was the son of Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was also president of Colombia from 1934 to 1938, and once again from 1942 to 1945...	Partido Liberal Colombian Liberal Party The Colombian Liberal Party is a center-left party in Colombia that adheres to social democracy and social liberalism.The Party was founded in 1848 and, together with the Colombian Conservative Party, subsequently became one of the two main political forces in the country for over a century.After...	2,797,627
Dr Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento	Nuevo Liberalismo New Liberalism (Colombia) Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galán founded the Nuevo Liberalismo in 1979, as a dissident force of the Colombian Liberal Party.Running against both the conservatives and the mainstream party, Galán lost the elections in 1982...	745,738
Dr Gerardo Molina Gerardo Molina Gerardo Molina Ramírez was a Colombian who as politician served as Congressman in both chambers, and as lawyer and professor served as dean of the National University of Colombia and of the Free University of Colombia. Molina finished fourth in the Colombian presidential election, 1982 and...	Unidad Democrática de la Izquierda	82,858
Dr Florentino Porras Pardo	Independent	199

Dr Belisario Betancur Cuartas won the presidential election and took office on August 7, 1982.

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