Kigali, Rwanda (CNN) -- President Paul Kagame is poised to win another seven-year term by a landslide in Rwanda's elections, electoral observers said Tuesday.
The observers said the voting was peaceful and "largely accurate".
Kagame, who first took power ion 1994 after the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, won an overwhelming 92.9 percent of the votes counted so far in one-third of the districts.
Kagame welcomed the results at a massive party thrown at the national stadium in the capital of Kigali Tuesday. Free drinks were handed out to thousands of supporters who danced to a host of live musicians.
"This is your victory, this is a victory for all Rwandans," Kagame said during the celebration speech, in vernacular Kinyarwanda. "Our development depends on you".
Results from the rest of the country have not yet been released, but observers said Monday's turnout was huge.
Human rights groups had expressed concern over violence and repression leading up to the vote but Salim Ahmed Salim, chairman of the Commonwealth Observation Group, lauded the polling as transparent.
"Elections in Rwanda were conducted in a peaceful atmosphere," Salim said. "The count in the polling stations was transparent and conducted fairly". CNN
