Barrow, who ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh five years ago, was well ahead of his main challenger Ousainou Darboe in results published in the afternoon by the electoral commission for almost 40 districts, out of 53 nationwide.An electoral commission official told reporters in capital Banjul that final results should be announced later in the afternoon.
Illiteracy is widespread in The Gambia, so voters cast their ballot by dropping a marble into a tub marked with their candidate's colour and photo -- a practice dating back to the country's past as a British colony.Many of the roughly one million eligible voters in the nation of more than two million people are hoping for an improvement in their living standards.
Political veteran Darboe is a lawyer who has represented opponents of Jammeh, and who ran for president against the former dictator several times. Ernest Bai Koroma, head of an election observation mission from the Economic Community of West African States ,"appealed to all the candidates to accept the outcome of the election in good faith" in a statement Sunday.Jammeh lost to Barrow in the 2016 election, but was only finally removed by a military intervention from other west African states.
Jammeh said the decision had been taken without his knowledge, and his supporters have formed a rival party. But rights groups fear the pact will diminish chances of a trial.
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