Incomplete election results show that President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appears headed for a runoff against the nation's main opposition leader in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election.
Elections commission chairman Mohamed Ibrahim said Thursday that Gayoom received nearly 40 percent of the 130,000 votes counted, while Maldivian Democratic Party leader Mohamed Nasheed came in second with just over 26 percent.
The commission did not announce turnout among the 208,000 registered voters. But the votes announced represented well over 50 percent of those cast in Wednesday's election.
If no candidate wins an outright majority, the two top vote-getters meet in a runoff.
Source: AP
No comments:
Post a Comment