Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results showed on Saturday, after key candidates were jailed or barred from a vote that has triggered days of violent protests.
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The final result showed Hassan won 97.66 per cent of the vote, dominating every constituency, the electoral commission announced on state television.
A quick swearing-in ceremony would take place on Saturday, state TV said.
At stake for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party was its decades-long grip on power amid the rise of charismatic opposition figures who hoped to lead the country towards political change.
Still, a landslide victory is unheard of in the region. Only President Paul Kagame, the authoritarian leader of Rwanda, regularly wins by a landslide.
The main opposition party, Chadema, says hundreds of people have been killed by security forces since protests broke out on election day on Wednesday.