1999–2000 Chilean presidential election

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]

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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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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