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A presidential election was held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 2008.A poll from late October 2007 gave the incumbent Leonel Fernández of the centre-right Dominican Liberation Party 42% construction tycoon Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the centre-left Dominican Revolutionary Party 30% and Amable Aristy Castro of the populist Social Christian Reformist Party 17%.[citation needed] A poll from mid-November 2007 saw Fernández at 40.1% Vargas Maldonado at 30.5% Aristy Castro at 17.2% Eduardo Estrella of the Fourth Way at 1.5% and Pedro Candelier of the Popular Alliance Party at 1.1%.The latest polls gave the incumbent Fernández 54% of the votes Vargas 36% and Aristy 9% as of late April 2008.On 17 May preliminary results from the Central Electoral Commission based on 91% of precincts showed that Fernández was reelected with 54% of the vote while Vargas had 40% and Aristy 5%.
