2000 Senegalese presidential election

2000 Senegalese presidential election

← 1993 27 February 2000 (first round) 19 March 2000 (second round) 2007 →
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

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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.