1999–2000 Guinea-Bissau general election

1999–2000 Guinea-Bissau general election
Presidential election
28 November 1999 (first round)
16 January 2000 (second round)
 
Nominee Kumba Ialá Malam Bacai Sanhá
Party PRS PAIGC
Popular vote 251,193 97,670
Percentage 72.00% 28.00%
Results by region of the second round.
President before election

Malam Bacai Sanhá
PAIGC

 Elected President

Kumba Ialá
PRS

Parliamentary election
28 November 1999
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
PRS Kumba Ialá 29.71 38 +26
RGB-BM Salvador Tchongó 19.79 29 +9
PAIGC Malam Bacai Sanhá 18.04 24 −38
UM Bubacar Rachid Djaló 7.86 3 −3
PDS Joaquim Baldé 5.60 3 New
AD Jorge Mandinga 4.96 3 New
UNDP Abubácar Baldé 4.06 1 New
FDS Rafael Paula Barbosa 2.56 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Seats by constituency.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Francisco Fadul
Independent		 Francisco Fadul
Independent

General elections were held in Guinea-Bissau on 28 November 1999, with a second round for the presidential election on 16 January 2000. The presidential election resulted in a victory for opposition leader Kumba Ialá of the Party for Social Renewal (PRS), who defeated Malam Bacai Sanhá of the ruling African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. The PRS were also victorious in the National People's Assembly election, winning 38 of the 102 seats. This was the first time an opposition party won an election since the country's independence in the 1970s.

Voter turnout was 72% for the second round of the presidential election.

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