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1st LD: Zambia ruling party wins presidential election

Xinhua, January 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Zambia ruling Patriotic Front (PF) won in the country's highly contested presidential election, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) announced on Saturday.

PF presidential candidate Edgar Lungu has garnered 48.33 percent of the total votes cast while his closest rival Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) garnered 46.67 percent of all votes, according to ECZ's official results.

Lungu, who is also defense and justice minister, got 807,925 votes while Hichilema got 780,168. Endi