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KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- With more than half the ballots counted, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai appeared Thursday to have won by a landslide, the BBC reported.
Election organizers refuse to declare a result until the remaining 45 percent of ballots are counted, but Karzai had 59 percent of the vote, ahead of his nearest challenger, Yunus Qanuni, who had just 17 percent.
The two other main presidential candidates were Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had 9 percent and Mohammed Mohaqiq 8 percent.
Qanuni made claims of voting irregularities as early as election day, but said he has accepted the jurisdiction of a U.N. inquiry and on Wednesday said he would also accept the election result.
"I have made sacrifices for the national interests of Afghanistan and I am ready to make another sacrifice," the former education minister said.
The eventual winner will not be sworn in or be able to form his cabinet for another month, the report said.
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