ASTANA, Kazakhstan—Election officials in Kazakhstan have declared long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev the overwhelming winner of a vote held this weekend.
The Central Election Commission unveiled incomplete provisional figures Monday showing Nazarbayev with 95.5 percent of votes cast.
With turnout reaching nearly 90 percent of the vote, that win should lend Nazarbayev a new crushing and unimpeachable five-year mandate.
The result will be tainted, however, by claims that university students were forced to vote and indications that the real turnout figure may have been artificially inflated.
Nazarbayev has led Kazakhstan virtually unchallenged since the 1980s, when it still formed part of the Soviet Union.
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