Daniel Ortega was reelected for a third term as Nicaragua's president on Monday, the nation's top election body said.
With 99.99 percent of the votes counted, Ortega - the leader of the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s - has gained 63.95 percent of the votes in his favor, Nicaragua’s Supreme Election Council reported.
The council also said that the turnout at the all-public elections exceeded 3.3 million people.
Ortega’s closest rivals in the election Fabio Gadea of the Independent Liberal Party secured 29.09 percent and Arnoldo Aleman of the Constitutional Liberal Party - 6.27 percent of the votes.
Ortega, who professes to be a born-again Christian, first served as president in 1985-1990 and was elected to a second term in 2006. He had been barred from running for a second consecutive term, but in 2009 the Supreme Court overturned that constitutional ban.
Voters were also electing the vice president, and members of the National Assembly (parliament).
Nicaragua is one of the few countries to recognize the independence of the Georgian breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The others are Russia, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
