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

Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:48am EDT

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.

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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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