title: 1999 Tunisian general election
text: # 1999 Tunisian general election
  
  General elections were held in Tunisia on 24 October 1999 to elect a President and Chamber of Deputies. For the first time ever there was more than one candidate in the presidential election; the longstanding requirement for prospective candidates to get at least 30 endorsements had been lifted months earlier. However, incumbent Zine El Abidine Ben Ali easily won a third five-year term with a reported 99.4 percent of the vote. His Constitutional Democratic Rally won 148 of the 183 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 92%.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### President
  
  | Candidate | Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Constitutional Democratic Rally | 3,269,067 | 99.45 |
  | | Mohemed Belhaj Amor | Popular Unity Party | 10,492 | 0.32 |
  | | Abderrahmane Tlili | Unionist Democratic Union | 7,662 | 0.23 |
  | Total | Total | Total | 3,287,221 | 100.00 |
  | Valid votes | Valid votes | Valid votes | 3,287,221 | 99.73 |
  | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 8,799 | 0.27 |
  | Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 3,296,020 | 100.00 |
  | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 3,605,942 | 91.41 |
  | Source: Geisser |||||
  
  ### Parliament
  
  | Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Constitutional Democratic Rally | 2,831,030 | 91.59 | 148 | +4 |
  | | Movement of Socialist Democrats | 98,550 | 3.19 | 13 | +3 |
  | | Popular Unity Party | 52,054 | 1.68 | 7 | +5 |
  | | Unionist Democratic Union | 52,612 | 1.70 | 7 | +4 |
  | | Ettajdid Movement | 32,220 | 1.04 | 5 | +1 |
  | | Social Liberal Party | 15,024 | 0.49 | 2 | +2 |
  | | Progressive Socialist Rally | 5,835 | 0.19 | 0 | 0 |
  | | Independents | 3,737 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 |
  | Total | Total | 3,091,062 | 100.00 | 182 | +19 |
  | Valid votes | Valid votes | 3,091,062 | 99.71 | | |
  | Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 9,036 | 0.29 | | |
  | Total votes | Total votes | 3,100,098 | 100.00 | | |
  | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 3,387,542 | 91.51 | | |
  | Source: Geisser, IPU ||||||
  