I guess this means there’s no chance of a unity government, though that was far-fetched anyhow. Here are the cold, dry results.

Announcing the results, the head of the CENI National Electoral Commission, Kissem Tchangai-Walla, said Gnassingbe of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) won 60.22 percent of the vote in Sunday’s poll while the main opposition candidate Emmanuel Bob-Akitani captured 38.19 percent.

“In view of these results … the candidate of the RPT has been provisionally elected,” said Kissem Tchangai-Walla.

The electoral commission chief said the provisional results must be confirmed by the constitutional council under Togolese law and that they did not include polling stations where ballot boxes had been destroyed.

Accusations of fraud and voting irregularities have been made by both sides in an election marred by violence, with diplomats and hospital sources saying three people had been killed in clashes on Sunday.

The weekend vote was held after the sudden death in office on 5 February of Eyadema, who ruled the tiny country of five million people for 38 years, becoming Africa’s longest serving ruler.

Turnout was high in the landmark election, at 63.57 percent, according to CENI.

The election was a straight race between Gnassingbe, who is 39, and 74-year-old Bob-Akitani, who ran on behalf of a coalition of six opposition parties.

A third opposition candidate, Nicolas Lawson won 1.04 percent according to the provisional results while Harry Olympio, who at the last minute withdrew from the race, nonetheless picked up 0.55 percent, CENI said.

The election results are in, though. And seconds after the announcement, protestors spilled into the streets.

The son of Togo’s late leader Gnassingbe Eyadema who ruled Togo for 38 years, has won Sunday’s controversial presidential election, sparking riots in the capital and calls for popular resistance by the opposition.

Just seconds after the national electoral commission said Faure Gnassingbe had won the presidential vote with a provisional tally of more than 60 percent, opposition militants armed with axes, machetes and sticks, started running in the streets of Lome, burning tires, erecting barricades and stopping cars, eliciting gunfire and tear gas from soldiers and police in riot gear.

Smoke rose in the sky in many parts of the coastal capital.

One of the protesters said he was not scared.

“We want to be killed by the soldiers or we will kill them,??????? he said. ???????We won’t allow Faure to become president in this country. He will not become president in this country. We don’t want Faure. Togo is not the property of the Gnassingbe family. Togo is the property of all the Togolese. We are tired, see ÄafterÅ 38 years, see the country, see the roads, all of us, we don’t get work, we are not doing anything.”

Other residents in Lome immediately left public areas and sought refuge inside their homes. One journalist had his car smashed.

The campaign director for the 39-year-old new president immediately appealed for calm.

Komi Klassou said Faure Gnassingbe was no longer a candidate, and as new president he would move swiftly to make changes to bring about reconciliation and change for the country’s youth.

But an opposition spokesman, Jean-Pierre Fabre, called for what he called a popular resistance movement.

He said the results were in his words a ridiculous masquerade of fraud, and that youths should take to the streets to prevent Mr. Gnassingbe from taking power. He also blamed the international community saying it was backing the continuation of the Eyadema reign.

For more, check out Gateway Pundit. Unlike Zimbabwe, the opposition leaders are actively encouraging their followers to rebel.