Preliminary results show Rakhmonov wins Tajik presidential vote

Preliminary results showed incumbent President Emomali Rakhmonov won Monday's presidential election in Tajikistan with 76.4 percent of the vote, an official of the central election commission said on Tuesday.

About 3.4 million voters were registered for the poll, the central election commission said. Official results of the election are expected later in the day.

Rakhmonov, who was nominated by his People's Democratic Party, faced Olimdzhon Boboyev of the Party of Economic Reform, Abdukhalim Gaffarov of the Socialist Party, Amirkul Karakulov of the Agrarian Party and Ismoil Talbakov of the Communist Party in the race for the country's top job.

More than 700 international observers monitored the vote. Some of them were sent by international groups like the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Source: Xinhua