Caracas, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro won the presidential elections held Sunday, defeating opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. According to the National Electoral Council (CNE), Maduro won 51.20% of the vote after processing 80% of the ballots, while opposition candidate Edmundo González won 44,02% of the vote. The president of the electoral authority, Elvis Amoroso, details that more than 11 million votes were valid during the election day. The candidate Nicolás Maduro was re-elected with 5,150,000 votes (51.2%) in a vote that went without incident and with an electoral turnout of 59%, while the second most voted candidate was Edmundo González with 4 million 445 thousand 978 votes, 44.2 percent of the votes'he added . Source: Syrian Arab News Agency