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 DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegal's president appeared to have won the country's election outright Wednesday, according to nearly complete results released by regional vote-counting centers and reported by the state-run news agency.
President Abdoulaye Wade looked to have avoided a runoff by garnering more than half the roughly 3.3 million valid ballots tallied so far from Sunday's vote. The 80-year-old patriarch of the West African nation received 1.8 million votes, or 55.6 percent.
The results account for about 95 percent of approximately 4.9 million registered voters. Turnout averaged around 70 percent for those centers that reported. Results from two of Senegal's 34 regional counting centers were still unconfirmed.
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