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John Magufuli of CCM defeats Edward Lowassa

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Image captionCCM supporters are celebrating the news in Dar es Salaam

Tanzania's governing CCM party candidate John Magufuli has won the presidential election with 58% of the vote, the electoral commission says.

His main rival Edward Lowassa has rejected the official results that gave him 40% of the ballots cast.

The opposition Ukawa coalition candidate earlier claimed he had won with 62% of the vote.

The elections on Sunday were the most fierce the governing party faced after 54 years in power.

John Magufuli, CCM: 8,882,935 votes - 58.46%

Edward Lowassa, Ukawa: 6,072,848 votes - 39.97%

In Zanzibar, elections for the semi-autonomous archipelago's parliament and president were annulled on Wednesday. 

Zanzibar's election chief Jecha Salum Jecha said the poll had been marred by gross irregularities, including rigging and physical fights between rival election commissioners.

The BBC's Robert Kiptoo in Tanzania's main city of Dar es Salaam says CCM supporters who had gathered outside the party headquarters began celebrating when the result was announced.

President Jakaya Kikwete, who is standing down after two terms in office, retweeted a CCM photo of Mr Magufuli and the accompanying words: "Our next Commander-in-Chief, Dr John Pombe Magufuli, the President-elect of The United Republic of Tanzania."

Abdallah Safari, vice-president of Chadema, one of the four opposition parties that make up Ukama, told the BBC that Tanzanians "have been robbed of their victory".

European Union observers said that the elections were "generally well organised" but "with insufficient efforts at transparency from the election administrations".

Teams from the African Union and southern African regional body Sadc said that the vote had largely been "free and fair", despite all groups raising concerns over the subsequent annulment of Zanzibar's local elections.

Tanzania's next president: John Magufuli

John Magufuli, CCM party's presidential candidate in Tanzania - July 2015Image copyrightAFP
Image captionJohn Magufuli is known as "The Bulldozer"
  • Aged 55, currently works minister in Tanzania's government
  • Nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for driving a programme to build roads across the country
  • Has promised change and to improve on the pace of progress laid down by the previous CCM government
  • Pledged to end power shortages and exploit Tanzania's natural gas discoveries
  • "My government will put emphasis on fighting corruption, job creation and industrialisation," he said before the vote

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