The 2019 presidential election in Senegal: Electoral practices between permanencies, opportunities, and ruptures

The 2019 presidential election marked a shift in Senegal’s political history: a new electoral law was introduced that required candidates to collect a certain number of signatures in order to appear on the ballot, the traditional parties had no candidate, and the diaspora vote was a major issue. Mapping, considered here as a ‘discovery operator’ from a political science perspective, makes it possible to undertake an initial analysis of the dynamics of the 2019 presidential election.