Chilean presidential election, 1999

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A presidential election was held in Chile on December 12 1999. None of the candidates achieved an absolute majority and a runoff election among the top two contenders was held on January 16 2000.

Contents 1 Results 1.1 First round 1.2 Runoff 2 See also

Results

First round

Candidate	Party/Coalition	Votes	%	Result
Ricardo Lagos Escobar	CPD	3,383,339	47.956%	Runoff
Joaquín Lavín Infante	APC	3,352,199	47.514%	Runoff
Gladys Marín Millie	PC	225,224	3.192%
Tomás Hirsch Goldschmidt	PH	36,235	0.514%
Sara María Larraín Ruiz-Tagle	independent	31,319	0.444%
Arturo Frei Bolívar	UCCP	26,812	0.380%
Total valid votes		7,055,128

Runoff

Candidate	Party/Coalition	Votes	%	Result
Ricardo Lagos Escobar	CPD	3,683,158	51.31%	President
Joaquín Lavín Infante	APC	3,495,569	48.69%
Total valid votes		7,178,727

Source: Chile Ministry of Interior

See also

• Politics of Chile
• List of political parties in Chile