2009 Afghan presidential election
October 21 certified final result
On October 21, 2009, following the ECC's official audit findings and Karzai's heavily pressured acquiescence to a run-off, the IEC released its final certified results for the August 20 vote:

2009 Afghan presidential election

Section Title: October 21 certified final result
Table Section Text: On October 21, 2009, following the ECC's official audit findings and Karzai's heavily pressured acquiescence to a run-off, the IEC released its final certified results for the August 20 vote:

Candidate	Party	Votes	%

Hamid Karzai	Independent	2,283,907	49.67

Abdullah Abdullah	National Coalition of Afghanistan	1,406,242	30.59

Ramazan Bashardost	Independent	481,072	10.46

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai	Independent	135,106	2.94

Mirwais Yasini	Independent	47,511	1.03

Shahnawaz Tanai	Afghanistan Peace Movement	29,648	0.64

Frozan Fana	Independent	21,512	0.47

Abdul Salam Rocketi	Independent	19,997	0.43

Habib Mangal	Independent	18,746	0.41

Motasim Billah Mazhabi	Independent	18,248	0.40

Abdul Latif Pedram	National Congress Party of Afghanistan	15,462	0.34

Mohammad Sarwar Ahmadzai	Independent	14,273	0.31

Sayed Jalal Karim	Independent	13,489	0.29

Shahla Atta	Independent	10,687	0.23

Mahbob-U-lah Koshani	Afghanistan Liberal Party	10,255	0.22

Alhaj Abdul Ghafor Zori	Independent	9,286	0.20

Rahim Jan Shinzad	Independent	7,197	0.16

Zabih-U-llah Ghazi Noristani	Justice and Development Party of Afghanistan	6,284	0.14

Abdul Jabar Sabet	Independent	6,190	0.13

Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui	Independent	5,043	0.11

Bismillah Shir	Independent	4,550	0.10

Ghulam Faroq Nijrabi	Independent	4,528	0.10

Abdul Hasib Arian	Independent	4,472	0.10

Moin-ul-din Ulfati	Independent	3,518	0.08

Gul Ahmmad Yama	Independent	3,221	0.07

Ghulam Mohammad Rigi	Independent	3,180	0.07

Mohammad Akbar Oria	Independent	2,991	0.07

Bashir Ahmad Bizhan	Kangara Afghanistan National Party	2,457	0.05

Sangin Mohammad Rahmani	Independent	2,434	0.05

Hedayat Amin Arsala	National Islamic Front of Afghanistan	2,346	0.05

Abdul Majid Samim	Independent	2,198	0.05

Zia-ul-haq Hafizi	Independent	1,679	0.04

Valid votes (turnout % and %)	4,597,727	100.00

Invalid votes	225,363	4.67

Total votes	4,823,090	100.00

Source: IEC

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The certified results after the audit findings had left Karzai with 49.67% of the vote.

final_sentence: The certified results after the audit findings had left Karzai with 49.67% of the vote.