By Rubia Rodriguez
Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic correspondent
Email: rubia@caribbeannetnews.com
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: The Central Electoral Board´s final tally of votes in the Dominican Republic’s presidential election held on May 16, whilst marginally disputed by the opposition parties, are deemed as correct by outside observers and support the predictions of various polling companies that held polls prior to the election.
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| Dominican Republican President Leonel Fernandez. AFP PHOTO |
The pollster companies of Penn, Schoen & Berland, Gallup, Noxa and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner were close to the actual number of votes received by all parties and were within their anticipated margins of error, typically plus or minus 3 percent.
With 100 percent of the votes tallied, the Central Electoral Board stated that the incumbent President Leonel Fernandez of the PLD, won with 54 percent; Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the PRD, 40 percent; and Amable Aristy Castro of the PRSC, 4 percent; with 1 percent of the votes divided between the other four candidates.
Penn published its last poll from April 21 to 25, with 56, 37 and 5, for the respective candidates and was closest to the actual count.
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