The Zanzibar Electoral Commission has declared ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi’s candidate Dr Ali Mohammed Shein the winner of the presidential election re-run largely boycotted by the opposition.
Mr Shein garnered 91.4 per cent of the votes casts on Sunday in the Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands, giving him a second five-year term likely to be marked by political tension.
According to the results announced by the electoral commission on Monday, Hamad Rashid Mohammed of Alliance for Democratic Change (ADC) came in second after securing 9,734 (3 per cent) of the total votes cast.