FACTBOX: Who's who in Georgia election

(Reuters) - Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili was re-elected president outright at the weekend with more than 50 percent of the votes cast in a presidential ballot, election officials said.

Here are some facts on the two main candidates who contested the poll:

MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgian president since 2004.

* Saakashvili, 40, graduated with a law degree from Kiev University. He then received a masters degree at Columbia University, New York before entering parliament in 1995. In January 2000 he became minister of justice.

* In 2001 he formed, and became leader of, what was Georgia's biggest opposition party, the United National Movement. In 2003 he was swept to power by peaceful protests that toppled former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze from the presidency.

* In November 2007 he faced his biggest street protests, when opposition leaders accused him of corruption and undemocratic rule, charges he denies.

LEVAN GACHECHILADZE, a wine entrepreneur and member of parliament, was at the forefront of the protests against Saakashvili. His candidacy was backed by the main nine-party opposition coalition.

* The 43-year-old studied economics, first at university in Tbilisi and then in Belgium. In 1994, Gachechiladze set up the Georgian Wines and Spirits company which soon became the biggest wine producer in the country.

* After the results were announced on Sunday, he said he was the rightful winner and demanded the election be annulled. Thousands of his supporters rallied on the banks of the River Mtkvari which winds through Tbilisi.

(Reporting and writing by Margarita Antidze and Niko Mchedlishvili; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)