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 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.
President Abdoulaye Wade was leading 14 other contenders with 900,900 votes, or 55 percent of valid ballots counted. It was not clear how close officials were to completing the count of 2.3 million ballots cast.
Socialist Party candidate Tanor Dieng was Wade's nearest competitor in the partial count, with about 16 percent. Idrissa Seck, who once served as Wade's prime minister, was next with about 12 percent. Seck had been jailed by the government for seven months on embezzlement charges that were never proved.
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