Presidential election in Senegal 2000

The presidential election in Senegal 2000 took place on February 27 (1st round) and on March 19 ( runoff ) in the West African state of Senegal . The runoff election had become necessary because no candidate was able to win a majority of the votes in the first round. Although the incumbent President Abdou Diouf and candidate of the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal , which has ruled the country since independence in 1960, had a clear lead in the first round, the opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais won almost 60% in the runoff election of votes, while Diouf almost retained his result of a good 41% from the first round. With this decision, Abdoulaye Wade was elected for the first time in Senegal, a president who did not belong to the former state party Parti Socialiste du Sénégal. The turnout in both rounds was a good 60% of the vote.

Results

candidate	Political party	1 round		Runoff
		be right	%	be right	%
Abdou Diouf	Parti Socialiste du Sénégal	690 917	41.30	687 969	41.51
Abdoulaye Wade	Parti Démocratique Sénégalais	518 740	31.01	969 332	58.49
Moustapha Niasse	Alliance des forces de progress	280 538	16.77
Djibo Leïty Kâ	Union pour le renouveau democratique	118 484	7.08
Iba The Thiam	Convention des démocrates et des patriotes / Garap-Gui	20 164	1.21
Ousseynou case	Non-party	18 604	1.11
Cheikh Abdoulaye Dièye	Front pour le socialisme et la democratie	16 211	0.97
Mademba sock	RTA-S	9 326	0.56
invalid votes		23 400	-	10 474	-
Total		1,696,384	100	1 667 775	100

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1. ^ Elections in Senegal's African Elections Database