Opposition wins Gambia presidential poll with 45.54 pc

The Gambia's opposition candidate Adama Barrow took 45.54 per cent of the vote in a stunning victory over the president of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh, the electoral commission said today.
Barrow won 263,515 votes, while Jammeh took 212,099 votes (36.66 per cent) and third party candidate Mama Kandeh 102,969 votes (17.80 per cent), the Independent Electoral Commission said.
Turnout was around 65 per cent.
"Peace, tolerance and tranquility. We are pleading to everyone to respect because you see from these results that we will have a change of government," the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission Alieu Momar Njie told reporters.