Vote counting has begun, and provisional results are expected by Tuesday, March 26. Voting bureaus will begin posting their tallies from Sunday night onward.
If no candidate wins more than 50 percent, a run-off election will take place between leading candidates.
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Millions of voters in Senegal gathered from 8am onward to cast ballots to elect their next president among a crowded field of candidates. There were long queues at polling stations and election observers said the voting process was largely “calm”.
The delayed polls took place following a period of uncertainty after President Macky Sall’s unsuccessful effort to delay the election. There were no clear frontrunners, but former Prime Minister Amadou Ba from the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) coalition and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who ran in place of disqualified opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, are considered the most popular choices to replace Sall.
A candidate has to secure more than 50 percent of the vote to win in the first round. If not, a run-off election will take place. Both Ba and Faye said they were confident about a first-round result.
Source: Aljazeera
