Nicolas Maduro has won a third term in Venezuela’s presidential election with 51.2% of the vote, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who had been leading in opinion polls, won 44.2 per cent of the vote, said the head of the pro-government electoral council, Elvis Amoruso. Maduro, 61, won a third six-year term as president, according to AFP.
Ten candidates ran in the race, but the contest was really between Maduro and 74-year-old former diplomat Gonzalez Urrutia.