Challengers to Abkhazia's incumbent president who won Saturday's vote highlighted on Sunday widespread violations and vowed to appeal the results.
Bagapsh defeated four other candidates in the first election in Abkhazia since the former Georgian republic was recognized by Russia with 59.4% of the vote, according to preliminary results.
"We do not recognize the results and will appeal to the Central Election Commission and in court," main opposition candidate and former vice president Raul Khadzhimba, who scored 15.4% of the vote, told reporters.
He said the number of voters in the lists were in sharp contrast with the actual number of people who came to the polls.
Another candidate Zaur Ardzinba, 10.8%, posted 16 violations in several cities on his website after the vote.
The election commission earlier on Sunday said the reported violations were insignificant.
Moscow has welcomed the leader's reelection. Georgia dismissed it as farce and an illegal Kremlin-backed gesture in an "occupied territory."
Bagapsh, 60, who has run the republic since January 2005, has reaffirmed his focus on economic and political ties with Russia.
Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in a conflict in the early 1990s. Moscow recognized Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, after a brief war with Georgia in August 2008. Nicaragua and Venezuela have followed suit.
SUKHUMI/MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
