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Official Results Confirm Huge Win for Cambodian Ruling Party VOA News 25 Feb 2002 10:49 UTC 
Official results released Monday have confirmed that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party scored a landslide victory in local elections held on February third.
Election officials say Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won most of the more than 1,600 communes, or clusters of villages contested in the balloting.
The opposition Sam Rainsy Party is said to have won 13 communes, with the royalist Funcinpec party taking 10. One commune is to undergo a re-vote next Sunday.
Local and international poll monitors have described the February third elections as a positive step for Cambodia's transition to democracy. But they said the polls did not meet international standards, due to pre-ballot killings, intimidation, vote-buying and other abuses.
Some information for this report provided by Reuters and AFP.
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