Baku, Oct 16: Ilham Aliyev, the son of Azerbaijan's outgoing president, has won the oil-rich republic's presidential elections, Election Commission officials said today. "There will not be a second round," Mazahir Panakhov, head of Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission, told reporters.

With 94 percent of votes counted by midday today, Aliyev junior, the 41-year-old son of President Heidar Aliyev, had a 79.55 percent share of the vote.

His nearest rival, opposition leader Isa Gambar, trailed with 12.1 percent. The electoral chief said that the final results would be published within the next two weeks.

Ilham aliyev's victory means that Azerbaijan will produce the world's newest political dynasty and the first dynastic succession in the former Soviet Union.

However the opposition has refused to accept the result, claiming mass ballot fraud. Its supporters were involved in violent clashes with police late yesterday in the capital, Baku. Bureau Report