Karzai Wins Afghan Election, Official Says
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A UN worker sorts Hamid Karzai&#39;s ballot papers at a counting center in Kabul on Tuesday, Oct. 26. 2004. With 97.7 percent of ballots counted, Karzai has 55.
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The latest official preliminary results from Afghanistan&#39;s 9 October 9 presidential election show transitional leader Hamid Karzai has won the clear majority needed for an outright first-round victory.
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President Hamid Karzai has won a majority of votes in Afghanistan&#39;s election, clinching a five-year term and becoming the country&#39;s first democratically elected leader
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Afghanistan&#39;s President Hamid Karzai has an overall majority in the country&#39;s presidential election, winning 4.2 million of the estimated 8 million votes, according to incomplete results on the election Web site.
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President Hamid Karzai has won the majority of votes in the presidential election, securing a new five-year term as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai drew &quot;great happiness&quot; from his lead in Afghanistan's presidential election, his spokesman said, but will not claim victory until results are officially certified.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai was on course Tuesday for an outright victory in the country&#39;s historic presidential election with more than a quarter of the votes counted from the poll 10 days ago.
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Early results from the Afghan election suggest interim president Hamid Karzai has won enough votes for victory.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- With the counting effectively &quot;over and done,&quot; incumbent Hamid Karzai is the clear winner in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, a senior official has said.
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With nearly all of the ballots counted, Afghan Interim President Hamid Karzai appears to have won a landslide victory in the October 9 election.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is on course for a clear victory in the country's historic election, with more than half the votes counted.
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Counting in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election has concluded, indicating the US-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai is the clear winner.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of  victory in his country's historic presidential poll, but the  result will not be announced for a day or so until the last few  hundred ballot boxes are counted, an official said on Monday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win the country&#39;s landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said after early returns gave Karzai a commanding advantage.
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Hamid Karzai was finally declared the winner of Afghanistan&#39;s landmark presidential election today, at the same time as the militants threatening to kill three UN hostages who were in the country to oversee the election pushed back their deadline by 12
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai was officially declared Afghanistan&#39;s first-ever popularly elected president today after a weeks-long fraud probe found no reason to overturn his landslide victory.
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THE CEREMONY: Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a five-year term as Afghan president after winning the country&#39;s first vote for head of state.