17 October 1999 (first round) 24 November 1999 (second round)
2004 →
Nominee
Mamadou Tandja
Mahamadou Issoufou
Party
MNSD
PNDS
Popular vote
1,061,731
710,923
Percentage
59.89%
40.11%
President before election
Daouda Malam Wanké
Military
Elected President
Mamadou Tandja
MNSD
Parliamentary election
← 1996
2004 →
All 83 seats in the National Assembly 42 seats needed for a majority
Party
%
Seats
+/–
MNSD
34.65
38
New
CDS-Rahama
17.23
17
New
PNDS
21.47
16
New
RDP-Jama'a
10.95
8
New
ANDP-Zaman Lahiya
6.61
4
−4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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President of the National Assembly after
Moutari Moussa [de] Independent
Mahamane Ousmane CDS-Rahama
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National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland
President
Abdourahamane Tchiani
Vice President
Salifou Modi
Prime Minister
Ali Lamine Zeine
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Ministers
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General elections were held in Niger in 1999; the first-round of the presidential elections was held on 17 October, with a run-off held alongside National Assembly elections on 24 November. The elections followed a coup d'état on 9 April, in which Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, who had led an earlier coup in January 1996 and won disputed presidential elections, was assassinated. Coup leader Daouda Mallam Wanké initiated a transitional period that concluded with the victory of Mamadou Tandja, the candidate of the National Movement for the Society of Development (MNSD), over Mahamadou Issoufou, the candidate of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), in the run-off.[1] The vote for the first National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, which had originally been scheduled for October, but delayed in August,[2] also saw a victory for the MNSD, which won 38 of the 83 seats. It formed a coalition with the Democratic and Social Convention in order to gain a majority in the Assembly.[3]
^"Report of the observation mission for the presidential and legislative elections of 17 October and 24 November 1999" Archived 18 October 2005 at the Wayback Machine, democratie.francophonie.org (in French).
^World: Africa: Niger delays election BBC News, 11 August 1999
^Niger: Elections held in 1999 International Parliamentary Union
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