2000 Senegalese presidential election

2000 Senegalese presidential election

← 1993 27 February 2000 (first round)
19 March 2000 (second round)
2007 →
Turnout62.23% (first round) Increase 10.77pp
60.75% (second round)
 
Candidate Abdoulaye Wade Abdou Diouf
Party PDS PS
Popular vote 969,332 687,969
Percentage 58.49% 41.51%

First round results by region
Wade:      40-50%    Diouf:      40-50%      50-60%

President before election

Abdou Diouf
PS

Elected President

Abdoulaye Wade
PDS

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.

  1. ^ Elections in Senegal African Elections Database