President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, was declared winner of Sudan's first multi-party presidential election in more than two decades.
Mr Bashir immediately pledged to respect the provisions of a Western-backed peace deal with southern rebels that ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
But his poll victory, 21 years after he seized power in a bloodless coup, was marred by opposition boycotts, allegations of fraud and questions from European monitors over the count’s transparency.
Mr Bashir won 68% with 6,901,694 votes.
Salva Kiir, leader of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, was declared winner of the simultaneous election for the presidency of the autonomous regional government of south Sudan.
Mr Kiir, a former rebel commander, won 92.9% percent in the south with 2,616,613 votes.
He chose not to stand against Mr Beshir for the national presidency but instead to campaign to lead the south towards an independence referendum promised for next January under the landmark 2005 peace deal between his movement and the Khartoum government.
