2000 Senegalese presidential election

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 62.2% in the first round and 60.8% in the second.

Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		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	PRS	18,604	1.11
Cheikh Abdoulaye Dièye	Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël	16,211	0.97
Mademba Sock	Rally of African Laborers-Senegal	9,326	0.56
Invalid/blank votes		23,400	-	10,474	-
Total		1,696,384	100	1,667,775	100

References

1. Elections in Senegal African Elections Database

Further reading

• Galvan, Dennis Charles (2001). "Political Turnover and Social Change in Senegal". Journal of Democracy. 12 (3): 51–62. doi:10.1353/jod.2001.0047.
• Gellar, Sheldon (2005). Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7026-2.