Country: | Senegal |
Type: | presidential |
Election Date: | 27 February 2000 (first round) 19 March 2000 (second round) |
Previous Election: | 1993 Senegalese presidential election |
Previous Year: | 1993 |
Next Election: | 2007 Senegalese presidential election |
Next Year: | 2007 |
Turnout: | 62.23% (first round) 10.77pp 60.75% (second round) |
Image1: | Abdoulaye Wade (headshot).jpg |
Candidate1: | Abdoulaye Wade |
Party1: | Senegalese Democratic Party |
Popular Vote1: | 969,332 |
Percentage1: | 58.49% |
Candidate2: | Abdou Diouf |
Party2: | Socialist Party of Senegal |
Popular Vote2: | 687,969 |
Percentage2: | 41.51% |
President | |
Before Election: | Abdou Diouf |
Before Party: | Socialist Party of Senegal |
After Election: | Abdoulaye Wade |
After Party: | Senegalese Democratic Party |
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.