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Before the full results were announced on Sunday night, Barrow’s three rivals ruled out partial results.
Adama Barrow has comfortably won her second term in the Gambia presidential election, celebrating thousands of supporters and discussing the results of her opponents.
Barrow won 53% of the vote, according to results released by the election commission on Sunday night.
His main challenge was Ousainou Darbo, who won 27.7 percent.
Alieu Momarr, chairman of the Njai Electoral Commission, named Barrow the winner, and the final results were reported to reporters within hours of the candidate questioning the partial results given to him by his opponents.
The crowd in support of Barrow marched through the streets of the capital Banjul and danced on a wide esplanade.
Barrow received a standing ovation when he addressed them with “great joy and humility” and told them to respect those who voted for their opponents in “free, fair and transparent elections.”
“I will do everything I can and use all the resources at my disposal to make Gambia a better place for everyone,” he said.
Before the full results were announced, Barrow’s three rivals ruled out partial results.
“At this stage, we reject the results announced so far,” Darbo and two other candidates said in a joint statement earlier. “All actions are on the table.”
Saturday’s election, the first since former powerful man Yahya Jammeh fled into exile in 2017, is crucial for a young West African democracy.
Jammeh refused to accept Barrow’s defeat in the December 2016 election.
Gambians went to the polls on Saturday to choose who would lead their country – the smallest on the African continent – over the next five years, with a turnout of 87 per cent, according to official results.
Earlier on Sunday, Ernest Bai Koroma, head of the election observation mission for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), called on all candidates to “accept the election results in good faith”.
The election was being watched closely as evidence of the democratic transition in Gambia, where Jammeh ruled for 22 years in 1994 after seizing power in a bloodless coup.
Barrow, who was unknown at the time, was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after being defeated at the polls.
Jammeh Barrow lost in the 2016 election, but had to be removed due to military intervention in other West African states.
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