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, 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.

2000 Senegalese presidential election

27 February 2000 (first round) 19 March 2000 (second round)
Turnout	62.23% (first round) 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

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	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)

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. S2CID 155083589.
• Gellar, Sheldon (2005). Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7026-2.