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Re-Election In Ecuador
Official Results
Confirm Correa's
Re-Election In Ecuador
Quito - Incumbent
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa won last
Sunday's presidential elections with 51.8
percent of the 93.3 percent of the vote
counted, said the National Electoral Council
Sunday.
Ecuador's electoral law stipulates that a
candidate who obtains an absolute majority
or wins 40 percent of the vote with a lead
of 10 percentage points over the nearest
rival in the first round win the
presidential election.
Former President Lucio Gutierrez came in
second in the official tally with 28.2
percent of the ballots, followed by banana
magnate Alvaro Noboa with 11.4 percent.
The election victory made Correa Ecuador's
first president who wins outright in the
first round of the polls, since democracy
returned to the country 30 years ago.
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