Algeria's President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika has won a fourth term in office taking more than 81% of the vote,
the interior minister has said.
The 77-year-old leader, who
suffered a stroke last year and rarely appears in public, cast his vote in a
wheelchair in Thursday's presidential election.
He beat his five other
opponents without personally campaigning.
Turnout was said to be 51.7% of
the country's 23 million registered voters, down from the 75% in 2009.
A coalition of Islamist and
secular opposition parties had called for a boycott, describing the election as
a sham and saying Mr Bouteflika was unfit to run because of his health
problems.
Three other presidential
candidates pulled out of the race soon after Mr Bouteflika's candidacy was
announced, saying the result would be a foregone conclusion.
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