A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material by fixing or bleach-fixing the material and immediately thereafter subjecting it to washing or stabilization, wherein (A) the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one of sensitizing dyes represented by the following formulae (I) and (II) and at least one two-equivalent magenta polymer coupler which is derived from a monomer coupler of the following formula (III) and which has a repeating unit represented by the following formula (IV), and (B) the amount of a replenisher in the washing step and/or the stabilization step falls within the range of 3 to 50 times, based on unit area of the material after being processed, the amount of each processing solution having been carried over from the preceding bath:
- ##STR16## wherein V.sub.1 and V.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a chlorine atom, a phenyl group, a substituted phenyl group, or a hydroxyl group, or V.sub.1 and V.sub.2 may together form a condensed benzene ring, W.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or chlorine atom;
- W.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a cyano group, a fluorine-substituted alkyl group, or an alkylsulfonyl group, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group, with the proviso that at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents a substituted alkyl group having a sulfo group or a carboxyl group;
- X.sub.1 represents an acid anion;
- and n is 1 or 2;
- ##STR17## wherein Z represents a sulfur atom or a selenium atom;
- A.sub.1 and A.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each has the same meanings as in V.sub.1 or V.sub.2 in the formula (I);
- B.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group having 5 or less carbon atoms, a lower acylamino group having 5 or less carbon atoms, or a lower alkoxy group having 4 or less carbon atoms;
- when B.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, B.sub.2 represents a lower acylamino group having 5 or less carbon atoms, a lower alkoxylcarbonyl group having 6 or less carbon atoms, or a carboxyl group, when B.sub.1 is a lower alkoxy group, B.sub.2 additionally represents a lower alkyl group having 5 or less carbon atoms, a lower acylamino group having 5 or less carbon atoms, a chlorine atom, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a hydroxyl group, a lower alkoxycarbonyl group having 5 or less carbon atoms, or a carboxyl group, and when B.sub.1 is a lower alkyl group or a lower acylamino group, B.sub.2 additionally represents a lower alkoxy group having 5 or less carbon atoms;
- R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group having 4 or less carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each has the same meanings as in R.sub.1, R.sub.2, or R.sub.3 in the formula (I), provided that at least one of R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 represents an alkyl group containing a sulfo group or a carboxyl group;
- X.sub.2 represents an acid anion residue;
- and M is 1 or 2;
- ##STR18## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a chlorine atom;
- A represents --CONH--, --COO--, --O--, or a phenylene group;
- B represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group which may be straight or branched chain, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group;
- Y represents --CONR'--, 'NR'CONR'--, --NR'CO.sub.2 --, --NR'CO--, --OCONR'--, --NR'--, --CO.sub.2 --, --OCO--, --CO--, --O--, --SO.sub.2 --, --NR'SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.2 NR'--, or --S--, wherein R' represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, provided that wherein two or more of R' are present in the molecule, they may be the same or different;
- n.sub.1 is 0 or 1;
- when n.sub.1 is 0, m.sub.1 is 1, when n.sub.1 is 1, m.sub.1 is 1;
- and Q represents a two-equivalent magenta coupler residue capable of forming a dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent, wherein the at least one of sensitizing dyes is present in an amount of from 1.times.10.sup.-6 to 5.times.10.sup.-3 mole per mole of the silver halide.