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Cote d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara re-elected with overwhelming majority

Xinhua, October 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cote d'Ivoire's incumbent President Alassane Ouattara won the first round of Sunday's presidential elections with 83.7 percent of the votes cast, provisional results released Wednesday morning by the electoral commission have shown.

Ouattara got over 3.1 million votes out of 3.3 million votes cast, the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) Youssouf Bakayoko said.

Ouattara was way ahead of his opponents among them Pascal Affi N'guessan, the candidate for Cote d'Ivoire Popular Front who came second with 290,780 votes, equivalent to 9.29 percent of the votes cast.

According to CEI chairman, the turnout in the Oct. 25 presidential elections was 54.6 percent.

Over 6.3 million voters were expected to turn out in 19,841 polling stations across the country and in the diaspora.

International and national observer missions which termed the elections as "credible, transparent and inclusive," said the process was concluded peacefully and "in a satisfactory manner."

Ouattara was re-elected to serve his second five-year term.

The elections are crucial for restoration of peace and national reconciliation in Cote d'Ivoire after the 2010 post-election crisis that claimed 3,000 lives after former President Laurent Gbagbo refused to acknowledge Ouattara's victory. Endit