Ivorian presidential election, 2000

Ivorian presidential election, 2000

22 October

108px Nominee Laurent Gbagbo Robert Guéï Party FPI Independent Popular vote 1,065,597 587,267 Percentage 59.36% 32.72%

President before election Robert Guéï Independent Elected President Laurent Gbagbo FPI

A presidential election was held in Côte d'Ivoire on 22 October 2000. Robert Guéï, who headed a transitional military regime following the December 1999 coup d'état, stood as a candidate in the election. All of the major opposition candidates except for Laurent Gbagbo of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) were barred from standing. The Rally of the Republicans (RDR) and Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RCA) boycotted the election in response to the exclusion of their candidates (respectively, Alassane Ouattara and Emile Constant Bombet) by the Supreme Court.

Guéï initially claimed to have won the presidency in a single round. However, it soon emerged that Gbagbo had actually won 59 percent of the vote--enough to win in a single round. When Guéï continued to insist he had won, a wave of protests drove him from power, and Gbagbo was sworn in as President.

Results

 Summary of the 22 October 2000 presidential election results

Candidate-Party	Votes	%
Laurent Gbagbo-Ivorian Popular Front (Front populaire ivoirien)	1,065,597	59.4%
Robert Guéï	587,267	32.7%
Francis Wodié-Ivorian Workers' Party (Parti ivoirien des travailleurs)	102,253	5.7%
Théodore Mel-Union of Democrats of Côte d'Ivoire (Union des Démocrates de Côte d'Ivoire)	26,331	1.5%
Nicolas Dioulo	13,558	0.8%
Total	1,795,006
Source: African Elections Database