BISHKEK, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev scored 89.7 percent of the poll counted in the Kyrgyz presidential election, the Central Election Commission said Friday morning.

    The results are based on returns from 710 of the 2,330 polling stations. A total of 652,265 ballots have been counted so far in the mountainous landlocked Central Asian nation.

    Opposition candidate Almazbek Atambayev, who pulled out of the poll which he said was illegitimate on Thursday, garnered over 5 percent of the votes counted.

    The commission said late Thursday the election registered a turnout of 79 percent, well above the threshold of 50 percent.

    Kyrgyzstan held on Thursday the fifth general election since its independence in 1991. Exit polls showed Bakiyev won a second term.