Armenian presidential election, 1998
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Presidential elections were held in Armenia
on 16 March 1998, with a second round on 30 March. The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who won 58.9% of the vote in the second round. Turnout was 63.5% in the first round and 68.1% in the second.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
on 16 March 1998, with a second round on 30 March. The result was a victory for independent candidate Robert Kocharyan, who won 58.9% of the vote in the second round. Turnout was 63.5% in the first round and 68.1% in the second.
Results
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Robert Kocharyan | Independent | 545,938 | 38.5 | 908,613 | 58.9 |
| Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan Karen Demirchyan was a Soviet Armenian communist, First Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988 and later independent politician... |
Socialist Party | 431,967 | 30.5 | 618,764 | 40.1 |
| Vazgen Manukyan Vazgen Manukyan Vazgen Manukyan was Prime Minister of Armenia from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1993 Manukyan was acting Minister of Defense.... |
National Democratic Union National Democratic Union (Armenia) The National Democratic Union is a political party in Armenia. Vazgen Manukyan is the chairman of the party.... |
172,449 | 12.2 | ||
| Sergej Badalyan | Armenian Communist Party Armenian Communist Party The Armenian Communist Party is a communist political party in Armenia.It considers itself the successor of the Communist Party of Armenia of the Soviet Union, since the former leadership of this party, headed by Aram Gasparovich Sarkisyan, dissolved it and established the Democratic Party of... |
155,023 | 109.9 | ||
| Paruyr Hayrikyan Paruyr Hayrikyan Paruyr Hayrikyan is an Armenian politician and former Soviet dissident.In Soviet times, he was placed several times in penal labor camps for his activiies and eventually stripped of Soviet citizenship and exiled to Ethiopia after his accusations of Soviet leadership in the instigation of Sumgait... |
National Union for Self-Determination | 76,212 | 5.4 | ||
| David Shamazaryan | Independent | 6,798 | 0.5 | ||
| Artashes Geghamyan Artashes Geghamyan Artashes Geghamyan is an Armenian politician.Geghamyan, born in Yerevan, finished Chekhov Secondary School in 1966 and graduated from the State Yerevan Polytechnic Institute in 1971. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972. From 1989 to 1990 he was the Mayor of Yerevan.In 1990,... |
National Accord Party | 6,314 | 0.4 | ||
| Vigen Khachatryan | Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia Presently the party is presided by Harutiun Arakelian. In 2008 three smaller parties in Armenia dissolved into the Democratic Liberal Party of Armenia, namely:*National Rebirth*Dashink*Liberal Progressive Parties... |
3,999 | 0.3 | ||
| Hrant Khachatryan | Constitutional Rights Union Constitutional Rights Union The Constitutional Rights Union is a conservative political party in Armenia.... |
2,943 | 0.2 | ||
| Aram Sargsyan | Democratic Party of Armenia Democratic Party of Armenia The Democratic Party of Armenia is a democratic socialist political party in Armenia.... |
2,710 | 0.2 | ||
| Yuri Mkrtchyan | Independent | 2,511 | 0.2 | ||
| Ashot Bleyan | New Path | 1,559 | 0.1 | ||
| None of the above | 9,509 | 0.7 | 14,890 | 1.0 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 38,177 | ||||
| 25,435 | |||||
| Total | 1,456,109 | 100 | 1,567,702 | 100 | |
| Source: Nohlen et al | |||||