Mugabe won run-off with 85.51 pct of vote-official

Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:48am EDT
 
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HARARE, June 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe won Friday's presidential election, in which he was the only candidate, with 85.51 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said on Sunday.

Official figures from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission show Mugabe with 2,150,269 votes compared to 233,000 for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who withdrew from the election a week ago. There were 131,481 spoilt ballots.

In disputed March 29 elections won by Tsvangirai, the opposition leader received 47.9 percent of votes and Mugabe 43.2 percent.

 
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