Chilean presidential election, 1999–2000

Chilean presidential election, 1999–2000
12 December 1999
16 January 2000

 
Candidate Ricardo Lagos Joaquín Lavín
Party For Democracy UDI
Alliance Concertación Alliance for Chile
Popular vote 3,683,158 3,495,569
Percentage 51.31% 48.69%
President before election

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Christian Democratic

 Elected President

Ricardo Lagos
For Democracy

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Presidential elections were held in Chile on 12 December 1999, with a second round run-off on 16 January 2000.[1] The result was a victory for Ricardo Lagos of the Concert of Parties for Democracy alliance, who received 51% of the vote in the second round.[2]

Results

Candidate Party/coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Ricardo LagosPPD/CPD3,383,33447.963,683,15851.31
Joaquín LavínUDI/APC3,352,19247.523,495,56948.69
Gladys MarínCommunist Party225,2243.19
Tomás HirschHumanist Party36,2350.51
Sara LarraínIndependent31,3190.44
Arturo Frei BolívarUCC26,8120.38
Valid votes7,055,116100.007,178,727100.00
Null votes159,4652.19103,3511.41
Blank votes56,9910.7844,6750.61
Total votes7,271,572100.007,326,753100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,084,47689.948,084,47690.62
Source: Tricel via LeyChile (first round); Tricel via Servel (runoff)

References

  1. ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
  2. ↑ Nohlen, p289
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