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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Mansur Ali of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the bye-election conducted in Mashi/Dutsi federal constituency. Prof Hudu Ayuba, the Returning Officer to the election, who announced the results in Mashi on Sunday, said APC won the election with 27,968 votes. He said Nazif Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 19,451 votes, while Kabir Abdullahi of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) polled 332 votes. He announced that the total registered voters in the constituency were 135,571, while 51,576 voters were accredited for the election. Ayuba said of the total 50,084 votes cast 47,751 were valid, while 2,333 were rejected. He thanked all those who participated as well as other stakeholders for the success of the exercise. Malam Abubakar Abdullahi, the agent of PDP candidate, described the election as free and fair, stressing that it was the unanimous decision of ...

http://ift.tt/2q60Mws A handout picture released by the website of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on May 19, 2017, shows him casting his ballot for the presidential elections at a polling station in Tehran. HO / ROUHANI.IR / AFP President Hassan Rouhani was leading in Iran’s election with more than half of votes counted on Saturday, the head of the election committee announced. Out of 25.9 million votes counted, Rouhani had 14.6 million and his hardline challenger Ebrahim Raisi 10.1 million, said Ali Asghar Ahmadi on state television. A huge turnout on Friday — estimated at more than 40 million out of 56 million registered voters — led to the vote being extended by several hours to deal with long queues. Rouhani, a 68-year-old moderate cleric who spearheaded a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, has framed the vote as a choice between greater civil liberties and “extremism”. But he has faced stiff competition from hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, 56, who positioned hi...