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A presidential election was held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. The election was originally planned for the beginning of 2011. However the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of Belarus on September 14 2010.Of the ten candidates incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner by the Central Election Commission with 79.67% of the votes. Andrej Sannikaŭ (Andrei Sannikov) received the second-highest percentage.