1983 Senegalese general election explained
| Country: | Senegal |
| Election Date: | 27 February 1983 |
| Previous Election: | 1978 Senegalese general election |
| Previous Year: | 1978 |
| Next Election: | 1988 Senegalese general election |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
| Module: | | Embed: | yes | | Election Name: | Presidential election | | Turnout: | 56.70% | | Image1: | Abdou Diouf 2008-08-27.jpg | | Candidate1: | Abdou Diouf | | Party1: | Socialist Party of Senegal | | Popular Vote1: | 908,879 | | Percentage1: | 83.45% | | Candidate2: | Abdoulaye Wade | | Party2: | Senegalese Democratic Party | | Popular Vote2: | 161,067 | | Percentage2: | 14.79% | | President | | Before Election: | Abdou Diouf | | Before Party: | Socialist Party of Senegal | | After Election: | Abdou Diouf | | After Party: | Socialist Party of Senegal | | Module: | | Embed: | yes | | Election Name: | Parliamentary election | | Turnout: | 56.20% | | Party1: | Socialist Party of Senegal | | Percentage1: | 79.94 | | Seats1: | 111 | | Last Election1: | 82 | | Party2: | Senegalese Democratic Party | | Percentage2: | 13.97 | | Seats2: | 8 | | Last Election2: | 18 | | Percentage3: | 2.71 | | Seats3: | 1 | | Last Election3: | New |
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General elections were held in Senegal on 27 February 1983 to elect a President and National Assembly. Incumbent Abdou Diouf, who had taken office in January 1981 following the resignation of Léopold Sédar Senghor, defeated four other candidates in the presidential election. Members of the National Assembly were elected using a mixed-member majoritarian system, with sixty members being chosen by the single-member plurality system and sixty being chosen by closed-list proportional representation.[1] In the National Assembly election Diouf's Socialist Party won 111 of the 120 seats.[2] Voter turnout was 56.2% in the Assembly election and 56.7% in the presidential election.
Results
National Assembly
Further reading
- Book: Fatton, Robert . The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975–1985 . Boulder . L. Rienner . 1987 . 1-55587-010-4 .
Notes and References
- http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/SENEGAL_1983_E.PDF Senegal 1983
- http://africanelections.tripod.com/sn.html Elections in Senegal
