The “final provisional unlikely to be changed (much) penultimate” presidential election results were released to the public this afternoon :
| Candidate | Total Votes | Percentage of Vote |
| Francisco Guterres “LuOlu” | 112666 | 27.29% |
| Avelino Coelho | 8338 | 2.06% |
| Francisco Xavier do Amaral | 58125 | 14.39% |
| Manuel Tilman | 16539 | 4.09% |
| Lucia Lobato | 35789 | 8.86% |
| Jose Ramos Horta | 88102 | 21.81% |
| Joao Carrascalao | 6928 | 1.72% |
| Ferdinand de Araujo “LaSama” | 77459 | 19.18% |
| TOTAL VALID VOTES | 403946 | 99.40% |
The total valid votes represent about 77% of the 522,903 registered voters and I think 82% actually voted (ie meaning 5% invalid for whatever reason – blank, not distinguishable or plain incorrectly filled in). I am not sure if all complaints have been thoroughly gone over and sorted. And these results are subject to appeal.
There will no doubt be a press release which answers some of the questions and explains where to from here.
This means that LuOlu and Ramos Horta will be contesting the run-off election. What may have happened if Ramos Horta had never put his name in ?
I am lucky that my deadline is when I get home and have something to say !
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Thanks for the figures.
Avelino Coelho would have done well to clone himself for more campaigning.
Impressed by figures for Lucia.
Xavier and of course Lasama I expected to do well. What happens to this 8 + 14 + 19 % of the vote?
Wonder what Fretilin is thinking right now!