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Sata wins Zambia 2011 presidential election

Leader of the Zambian opposition Patriotic Front Michael Chilufya Sata has emerged winner of the Sept. 20 presidential race in the southern African country, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) announced early on Friday morning.

According to the ECZ announcement, Sata amassed a total of 1,150,045 votes, representing 43 percent of the votes while leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and incumbent President Rupiah Bwezani Banda got 961,796 votes, representing 36.1 percent of the votes.