Election of incumbent President Ali Abdullah Saleh
1999 Yemeni presidential election
23 September 1999
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Turnout
67.5%
Nominee
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Najeeb Qahtan al-Shaabi
Party
GPC
Independent
Popular vote
3,584,399
141,481
Percentage
96.2%
3.8%
President before election
Ali Abdullah Saleh
GPC
Elected President
Ali Abdullah Saleh
GPC
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Direct presidential elections were held in Yemen for the first time on 23 September 1999.[1] Candidates had to be approved by at least 10% of the 301 members of the House of Representatives; however, in practice this meant that only two parties, the ruling General People's Congress (GPC) and Al-Islah had enough seats to nominate their candidates. However, al-Islah backed the GPC candidate, incumbent President Ali Abdullah Saleh rather than running a candidate of their own.
The only candidates that received approval from Parliament were Saleh and Najeeb Qahtan Al-Sha'abi, another member of the GPC. The main opposition candidate, Ali Saleh Obad of the Yemeni Socialist Party, failed to gain enough support in the House of Representatives; his party subsequently boycotted the elections. The reported voter turnout of 67.5% was contested by the opposition.[2]
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p301 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
^"Election Watch". Journal of Democracy. 11 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 206–211. January 2000. doi:10.1353/jod.2000.0001. ISSN 1086-3214. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
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