According to him, as many as 17.2 million people cast their ballots for Karimov.
Note that, 85 percent of 20 million registered voters in Uzbekistan participated in the election. Those competing with the incumbent President Islam Karimov are Khatamjan Ketmanov of the People's Democratic Party, Nariman Umarov of the "Adolat" (Justice) Social Democratic Party and Akmal Saidov of the National Revival Democratic Party.