Belarus' Central Elections Commission said Monday that outgoing President Alexander Lukashenko won a sixth term with 80.23 percent of the vote.
The Central Election Commission stated that Lukashenko's main rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, received 9.9% of the vote in Sunday's elections, while each of the other three candidates did not exceed 2%.
The announcement came after the police dispersed demonstrators with sound bombs and rubber bullets in Minsk and other cities on Sunday evening, after preliminary results showed that Lukashenko won a landslide victory.
Tikhanovskaya, a 37-year-old mother and housewife, rallied opposition during the election campaign, drawing tens of thousands of supporters to the largest demonstrations in the former Soviet state in years.
Supporters of the opposition took to the streets of the capital, Minsk and other cities, after preliminary results showed that the president was about to win, and chanted slogans against him, and media reported clashes between police and demonstrators.
These elections came in light of a fraught internal political situation, and external tension, whose title is disagreements with its ally Russia.
Lukashenko has ruled the country for two and a half decades, and his rule is described as iron, and he is betting on staying in power, and he is also facing accusations from his opponents of restricting freedoms and manipulating results.