2000 Ivorian presidential election

2000 Ivorian presidential election

22 October 2000

Nominee Laurent Gbagbo Robert Guéï Francis Wodié Party FPI Independent PIT Popular vote 1,065,597 587,267 102,253 Percentage 59.36% 32.72% 5.70%

President before election Robert Guéï Independent Elected President Laurent Gbagbo FPI

Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast 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 (Alassane Ouattara and Émile Constant Bombet respectively) 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. Two years later the First Ivorian Civil War broke out, and the next presidential elections were not held until 2010.

Results

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Laurent Gbagbo	Ivorian Popular Front	1,065,597	59.36
	Robert Guéï	Independent	587,267	32.72
	Francis Wodié	Ivorian Workers' Party	102,253	5.70
	Théodore Mel Eg	Union of Democrats of Ivory Coast	26,331	1.47
	Nicolas Dioulo	Independent	13,558	0.76
Total			1,795,006	100.00
Valid votes			1,795,006	87.60
Invalid/blank votes			254,012	12.40
Total votes			2,049,018	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			5,475,143	37.42
Source: African Elections Database

Further reading

• Ayangafac, Chrysantus (2009). "The Politics of Post-Conflict Elections in Côte d'Ivoire". In Besada, Hany (ed.). From Civil Strife to Peace Building. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 33–51. ISBN 978-1-55458-052-1.