STONE TOWN, Zanzibar, Nov. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Zanzibar is to inaugurate its new president early on Wednesday after the Zanzibar Electoral Commission has just announced the 2005 presidential election result, according to electoral official on Tuesday.

    Amani Abeid Karume got re-elected by winning 239,832 or 53.2 percent of the votes.

    A total of 460,581 of the 507,225 registered voters in the Indian Ocean archipelago cast their ballots on Sunday and that amounted to a turn-out rate of 90.8 percent.

    Civic United Front, the major opposition party in Zanzibar, garnered 207,733 or 46.1 percent of the votes for its Zanzibar presidential candidate Seif Shariff Hamad.

    Zanzibar, though a part of the United Republic of Tanzania, hasits own president, cabinet, parliament and jurisdiction system.

    The Indian Ocean archipelago holds general elections every fiveyears simultaneously with the Tanzania mainland.

    But the Tanzania mainland has postponed its 2005 general elections from October 30 to December 18 in the wake of the death of a vice-presidential candidate from the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo party. Enditem