Results confirm Karimov re-elected as Uzbek president

Karimov garnered 90.39 percent of total votes in a presidential election where 18,942,349 people voted – a turnout of 91.08 percent of 20,798,052 eligible voters, the commission confirmed on Tuesday.

Mirza-Ulugbek Abdusalomov, the head of the commission, said at a press conference: "In this election, a total of 17,122,597 voters favored the president-elect Karimov.”

People’s Democratic Party Leader Hatamcan Ketmanov won 2.92 percent of the poll, while Justice Social Democratic Party leader Nariman Umarov got 2.05 percent and Akmal Saidov from the National Revival Democratic Party, received 3.08 percent, Abdusalomov said.