2000 Mauritian general election

2000 Mauritian general election

11 September 2000

All 62 directly elected seats in the National Assembly (and up to 8 BLS seats)
Turnout80.86% ( 1.17pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Anerood Jugnauth Navin Ramgoolam
Party MSM Labour Party
Alliance MSM/MMM PtrPMXD
Seats won 58 8
Popular vote 951,643 672,336
Percentage 51.34% 36.27%

Result by constituency. The colour shade shows the percentage of the elected candidate with the highest number of votes

Prime Minister before election

Navin Ramgoolam
Labour Party

Subsequent Prime Minister

Anerood Jugnauth
MSM

General elections were held in Mauritius on 11 September 2000 to elect the members of the National Assembly.

The opposition Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) party decisively won the elections in coalition with the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), defeating the governing Mauritian Labour Party (MLP) led coalition. They formed together the MSM/MMM As a result, in a pre-election deal Anerood Jugnauth of the Militant Socialist Movement became Prime Minister of Mauritius before handing over to Paul Bérenger of the Mauritian Militant Movement in 2003.