1999 Indonesian presidential election
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Presidential election | ||||||||||||||||||||
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700 members of the People's Consultative Assembly 351 electoral votes needed to win | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 98.71% ( 5.64pp) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Votes of the People's Consultative Assembly
Abdurrahman Wahid: 373 votes Megawati Sukarnoputri: 313 votes
Invalid votes: 5 Abstentions: 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Vice-presidential election | ||||||||||||||||||||
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700 members of the People's Consultative Assembly 351 electoral votes needed to win | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 97.86% ( 2.14pp) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Votes of the People's Consultative Assembly
Megawati Sukarnoputri: 396 votes Hamzah Haz: 284 votes
Invalid votes: 5 Abstentions: 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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From 20 to 21 October 1999, the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), the legislative branch of Indonesia, met to elect both the president and vice president of the country for the 1999–2004 term. The incumbent president, B. J. Habibie, declined to stand for election. On 20 October, Abdurrahman Wahid, chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama, was elected president and inaugurated on the same day. Wahid's opponent, Megawati Sukarnoputri was subsequently elected vice president the next day. The elections represented the first relatively democratic and peaceful transfer of power in the history of Indonesia.