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Incumbent Venezualan President Hugo Chavez has easily won re-election, giving the outspoken socialist six more years in office.

With 78 per cent of voting stations reporting Sunday, Chavez had 61 per cent of the vote, compared to 38 per cent for challenger Manuel Rosales, said Tibisay Lucena, head of the country's elections council.

Rosales conceded defeat but vowed to remain in opposition.

Chavez had nearly six million votes versus 3.7 million for Rosales, according to the partial tally.

Turnout was 62 per cent, according to an official bulletin of results, making Chavez's lead insurmountable.

Minutes after the results were announced, Chavez appeared on the balcony of the presidential palace singing the national anthem. He pledged to deepen his effort to transform Venezuela into a socialist society.

"Long live the socialist revolution! Destiny has been written," Chavez shouted to thousands of flag-waving supporters wearing red shirts and braving a pouring rain.

"That new era has begun," he said, raising a hand in the air. "We have shown that Venezuela is red! … No one should fear socialism … Socialism is human. Socialism is love," Chavez said. "Down with imperialism! We need a new world!"

The win gives Chavez more time to spend Venezuela's oil wealth on social programs and spread his anti-U.S. message among leaders across Latin America.

The president was opposed by 13 candidates, but only Rosales was thought to represent any serious challenge.

Rosales, a tough-talking former state governor and cattle rancher who says he wants to protect a market-based system, has accused Chavez of steering the country toward Cuba-style, one-man rule with policies that will erode the democratic process.

Since Chavez was voted into office in 1998 on a wave of discontent with Venezuela's corrupt political elite, his supporters have gained increasing domination over all branches of government, and they now control Congress, state offices and the judiciary.

Rosales had said he would maintain some of Chavez's social programs and even introduce a state-issue debit card to distribute some of the country's oil wealth directly to the neediest families.

Chavez had been leading in a number of pre-election polls, but Rosales had drawn huge crowds of supporters in campaign rallies.

Pollsters said Rosales had been counting on capturing a large number of the undecided among the 14 million eligible voters.

The campaign has been hostile, with Chavez calling Rosales a pawn of Washington and Rosales saying his supporters would be on the alert for election fraud.

Pitted against Bush administration

Chavez has called U.S. President George W. Bush the devil, allied himself with Iran and wielded influence in election races across Latin America while clashing at home with business leaders and opposition-aligned media.

Loyalists helped him survive a 2002 coup attempt along with a subsequent general strike and 2004 recall referendum.

Despite the anti-U.S. rhetoric, Venezuela — the world's fifth largest oil exporter — has continued a brisk oil business with the United States.

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