Georgian leader wins 53.8 pct in vote: exit poll

Sat Jan 5, 2008 2:39pm EST
 
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won 53.8 percent in Saturday's presidential election, a final exit poll showed, a result which would give him just enough votes for a first-round victory.

Election chiefs have not yet announced any official results. Here are the full results from the exit poll, which was conducted by a group of non-governmental organizations and commissioned by several Georgian television stations:

Mikhail Saakashvili (National Movement) 53.8 pct

Levan Gachechiladze (opposition coalition) 28.3 pct

Badri Patarkatsishvili (independent) 6.2 pct

Shalva Natelashvili (Labour Party) 5.6 pct

David Gamkrelidze (New Rights Party) 3.6 pct

Georgy Maisashvili (Future Party) 0.9 pct

Irina Sarishvili (Imedi movement) 0.4 pct

*Some respondents declined to answer or voted against all the candidates.

(Writing by James Kilner and Christian Lowe)

 

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