Omar al-Bashir won the Sudanese presidential election with 94% of votes, elections officials announced today in Khartoum after the finalization of ballot counting and tallying.

Bashir took 94.05 percent of votes in the presidential election and his National Congress Party (NCP) won 323 of 426 parliamentary seats, National Election Commission president Mukhtar al-Asim told a news conference in Khartoum.

Mukhtar put turnout at 46.4 percent, above African Union monitors' estimates of 30-35 percent.

In his victory speech to cheering supporters just hours after the announcement Bashir said, "With these elections, the Sudanese people gave the world a lesson in ethics, they gave the world a lesson in integrity."

He added, "We do not accept the supervision or the dictates of others ... Sudan is a free country and we don't accept others' orders."