NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Venezuelan presidential election, 1998

Candidate	Party/Alliance	Votes	%
Hugo Ch�vez	MVR	3,673,685	56.20
Henrique Salas Romer	Proyecto Venezuela	2,613,161	39.97
Irene Lailin S�ez Conde	IRENE	184,568	2.82
Luis Alfaro Ucero	ORA	27,586	0.42
Others		38,304	0.59
Total		6,537,304

Source: PDBA (http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Elecdata/Venezuela/pre98.html) and IFES (http://www.ifes.org/eguide/resultsum/venezuelares3.htm)

As a result of this election, Hugo Rafael Ch�vez Fr�as was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela.

Venezuelan presidential election, 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (277 words)
	A presidential election was held in the Republic of Venezuela on 6 December 1998.
	In this election, Hugo Chávez was elected to his first term as President of Venezuela with the largest percentage of the popular vote (56.2%) in four decades.
	Chávez registered 30% in polls taken in May 1998; by August he was registering 39%.

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