2000 Senegalese presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 27 February 2000, with a second round taking place on 19 March after no candidate won over 50% of votes in the first round. Although incumbent President Abdou Diouf of the Socialist Party won the most votes in the first round, he was defeated by long-term opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party in the second round,[1] marking the first time that the Socialist Party and its predecessors had lost power since independence. Voter turnout was 62% in the first round and 61% in the second.
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| Turnout | 62.23% (first round)  10.77pp 60.75% (second round) | |||||||||||||||
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 First round results by region Wade: 40-50% Diouf: 40-50% 50-60% | ||||||||||||||||
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Results
edit| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Abdou Diouf | Socialist Party | 690,917 | 41.30 | 687,969 | 41.51 | |
| Abdoulaye Wade | Senegalese Democratic Party | 518,740 | 31.01 | 969,332 | 58.49 | |
| Moustapha Niasse | Alliance of the Forces of Progress | 280,538 | 16.77 | |||
| Djibo Leïty Kâ | Union for Democratic Renewal | 118,484 | 7.08 | |||
| Iba Der Thiam | Convention of Democrats and Patriots | 20,164 | 1.21 | |||
| Ousseynou Fall | Republican Party of Senegal | 18,604 | 1.11 | |||
| Cheikh Abdoulaye Dièye | Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël | 16,211 | 0.97 | |||
| Mademba Sock | Rally of African Labourers–Senegal | 9,326 | 0.56 | |||
| Total | 1,672,984 | 100.00 | 1,657,301 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 1,672,984 | 98.62 | 1,657,301 | 99.37 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 23,400 | 1.38 | 10,474 | 0.63 | ||
| Total votes | 1,696,384 | 100.00 | 1,667,775 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 2,725,987 | 62.23 | 2,745,239 | 60.75 | ||
| Source: African Elections Database, CC (first round), (second round) | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Elections in Senegal African Elections Database
Further reading
edit- Galvan, Dennis Charles (2001). "Political Turnover and Social Change in Senegal". Journal of Democracy. 12 (3): 51–62. doi:10.1353/jod.2001.0047. S2CID 155083589.
- Gellar, Sheldon (2005). Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7026-2.