The tension was scarcely palpable, the result was hardly a shock. I have been visiting some of the Tunisian media sites over the past few weeks trying to find something of interest to say about the election and I failed. All I could find was some of the most obsequious coverage of an election, or rather of a candidate, incumbent president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, that I have seen for a long time. This isn’t to pass judgement on the election or the president, it merely reflects some of the coverage that I saw and maybe there was other coverage (in Arabic, for example) that allowed itself to be critical.

Anyway, the result is in. President Ben Ali has been re-elected to serve for a fifth term. In the two previous elections he won more than 90% of the vote. This time he just failed to do so. The turnout was 89.40%.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali – Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD), 89.62%
Mohamed Bouchiha – Parti de l’Union Populaire (PUP), 5.01%
Ahmed Inoubli – l’Union Démocratique Unioniste (UDU), 3.80%
Ahmed Brahim – Mouvement Attajdid,1.57%

In the legislative elections President Ben Ali’s RCD party also won a comfortable majority.

Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) – 84.59%, 161 seats
Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes (MDS) – 4.63%, 16 seats
Parti de l’Unité Populaire (PUP) – 3.39%, 12 seats
l’Union Démocratique Unioniste (UDU) – 2.56%, 9 seats
Parti Social Libéral – 8 seats
Parti des Verts pour le Progrès – 6 seats
Mouvement Attajdid – 2 seats

Source here