1999 Nigerien general election

1999 Nigerien general election

Presidential election

← 1996 17 October 1999 (first round) 24 November 1999 (second round) 2004 →

Nominee Mamadou Tandja Mahamadou Issoufou Party MNSD PNDS Popular vote 1,061,731 710,923 Percentage 59.89% 40.11%

President before election Daouda Malam Wanké Military Elected President Mamadou Tandja MNSD

Parliamentary election

← 1996 2004 →

All 83 seats in the National Assembly 42 seats needed for a majority

Party % Seats +/– MNSD 34.65 38 New CDS-Rahama 17.23 17 New PNDS 21.47 16 New RDP-Jama'a 10.95 8 New ANDP-Zaman Lahiya 6.61 4 −4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the National Assembly before President of the National Assembly after Moutari Moussa [de] Independent Mahamane Ousmane CDS-Rahama

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General elections were held in Niger in 1999; the first-round of the presidential elections was held on 17 October, with a run-off held alongside National Assembly elections on 24 November. The elections followed a coup d'état on 9 April, in which Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, who had led an earlier coup in January 1996 and won disputed presidential elections, was assassinated. Coup leader Daouda Mallam Wanké initiated a transitional period that concluded with the victory of Mamadou Tandja, the candidate of the National Movement for the Society of Development (MNSD), over Mahamadou Issoufou, the candidate of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), in the run-off.^[1] The vote for the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, which had originally been scheduled for October, but delayed in August,^[2] also saw a victory for the MNSD, which won 38 of the 83 seats. It formed a coalition with the Democratic and Social Convention in order to gain a majority in the Assembly.^[3]