Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a 'landslide victory' in presidential poll securing 88.7 percent of the vote, parliament speaker Mohammad al-Laham has said.

The two other candidates, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3 percent and 3.2 percent respectively.

The 'victory; gives Assad a third seven-year term in office.

The head of the Supreme Constitutional Court said on Wednesday that the turnout in the country's presidential election this week was 73.42 percent.

The opposition and its international backers have denounced the election as a farce, saying the two relatively unknown and state-approved challengers offered no real alternative to Assad.

Voting was held only in regime-controlled areas, excluding vast chunks of northern and eastern Syria that are in opposition hands.

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Syrians wave their national flag as they celebrate in a street in Damascus after President Bashar al-Assad was announced as the 'winner' of the country's presidential elections on June 4, 2014.

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