2001 Senegalese parliamentary election

none Senegal 29 April 2001 1998 2007 All 120 seats in the National Assembly 60 67.39% Sopi Coalition Abdoulaye Wade 49.58 89 26 Socialist Ousmane Tanor Dieng 17.36 10 93 AFP Moustapha Niasse 16.13 11 new AJ/PADS Landing Savané 4.05 2 4 URD Djibo Leyti Kâ 3.68 3 11 Liberal Ousmane Ngom 0.92 1 new PPC Mbaye-Jacques Diop 0.91 1 new APJ/Jëf-Jël 0.80 1 new RND 0.71 1 1 PIT 0.58 1 1 Parliamentary elections were held in Senegal on 29 April 2001 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first held under the new constitution approved by a referendum earlier in the year. Following the victory of Abdoulaye Wade in the February–March 2000 presidential election, the Sopi Coalition, including Wade's Senegalese Democratic Party and its allies, won a large majority. After Wade was elected president, he entered a situation of cohabitation with the Socialist Party, which still held an overwhelming majority of seats in the National Assembly. Wade was constitutionally barred from dissolving the National Assembly and calling a new parliamentary election, but he decided to revise the constitution and said that he would not pursue policy initiatives in the meantime. Since he was not seeking new legislation, he did not need to compromise with the National Assembly, which simply approved the budget and adjourned. The Socialist Party did not object to Wade's constitutional changes, which included giving the President the right to dissolve the National Assembly, and the new constitution easily passed a referendum in January 2001. Wade then dissolved the National Assembly and called a new parliamentary election. The Socialist-controlled upper house of Parliament, the Senate, was abolished by the referendum.Marina Ottaway, Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism (2003), Carnegie Endowment, pages 104–106. Although Wade was barred by the January 2001 Constitution from addressing rallies during the election campaign"Senegal's president hopes to consolidate power in legislative vote", Associated Press (nl.newsbank.com), April 29, 2001. and the Sopi Coalition was not allowed to use his picture on its ballot papers,Chris Simpson, "Senegal: Wade's historic turnaround", BBC News, May 2, 2001. Wade actively and prominently participated in the Sopi campaign, drawing criticism from opponents."Senegal: President's criticized for involvement in electoral campaign", Radio France Internationale (nl.newsbank.com), April 27, 2001. Wade urged the people to vote for the Sopi Coalition so that he could govern effectively with a secure majority. Results National Departmental Total +/– Sopi Coalition 931617 27 62 89 +63 Socialist Party 326126 10 0 10 –83 Alliance of the Forces of Progress 303150 9 2 11 New And-Jëf/African Party for Democracy and Socialism 76102 2 0 2 –2 Union for Democratic Renewal 69109 2 1 3 –8 Senegalese Liberal Party 17240 1 0 1 New Party for Progress and Citizenship 17122 1 0 1 New Alliance for Progress and Justice/Jëf-Jël 15048 1 0 1 New National Democratic Rally 13286 1 0 1 0 Party of Independence and Labour 10854 1 0 1 0 Rally of the Ecologists of Senegal – The Greens fr Rassemblement des écologistes du Sénégal - Les Verts 10546 0 0 0 New Democratic Union of Patriotic Progressive Forces fr Union démocratique des forces progressistes patriotiques 10395 0 0 0 New Reform Movement for Social Development 10341 0 0 0 New Citizens' Movement for a Development Democracy fr Mouvement des citoyens pour une démocratie de développement 8925 0 0 0 New Party of Renaissance and Citizenship fr Parti de la Renaissance et de la Citoyenneté 8719 0 0 0 New Front for Socialism and Democracy/Benno Jubël 7923 0 0 0 –1 Senegalese People's Party fr Parti Populaire Sénégalais 6832 0 0 0 New Gaïndé Centrist Bloc fr Bloc des centristes Gaïndé 6251 0 0 0 –1 Social Democratic Party/Jant Bi 5298 0 0 0 New Movement for Democracy and Socialism/Niaxx Jariñu fr Mouvement pour la démocratie et le socialisme/Niaxx Jariñu 5142 0 0 0 New Union for the Republic (Senegal) fr Union pour la République (Sénégal) Union for the Republic 4841 0 0 0 New Senegalese Republican Movement 4149 0 0 0 0 African Independence Party – Renewal 3682 0 0 0 New Party for the African Renainssance fr Parti pour la Renaissance Africaine 3351 0 0 0 New Rally of African Workers–Senegal fr Rassemblement des travailleurs africains - Sénégal 2797 0 0 0 New –20 11082 2804352 Direction Générale des Élections References External links BBC news on the election Report from Afrol news on the election Press reaction to the election Category:Parliamentary elections in Senegal Senegal Parliamentary Senegal Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results