Dar es Salaam - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a landslide election victory with 97.66 percent of the vote, the electoral commission announced Saturday, after polls that lacked major opposition candidates and descended into violent protests.
"I declare Samia Suluhu Hassan the elected president of the United Republic of Tanzania through the CCM party," electoral commission chair Jacobs Mwambegele said on state television.
She won 31,913,866 out of 32,678,844 votes cast, he said.
Hassan's CCM, whose predecessor party led the struggle for independence for mainland Tanzania in the 1950s, has dominated national politics since it was founded in 1977.
Hassan, one of ONLY two female heads of state in Africa, won plaudits after coming to power in 2021 for easing repression of political opponents.
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