Afghanistan's incumbent president wins 54.1 percent of votes in elections

Karzai has significantly widened its lead against his major rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who has 28.3 percent, according the partial results released by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday.

Karzai needs to receive over 50 percent to avoid a second-roundrun-off.

The vote count progressed very slowly as IEC only released a small part of the results every two or three days. The official final result is expected on Sept. 17.

The U.N.-backed Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Tuesday ordered recount in polling stations where fraud was suspected in the Aug. 20 presidential election, but IEC denied receiving such order.

The ECC said, the ballots in polling stations where any candidate won over 95 percent, should be recounted. But it did not say how many polling stations were involved.

The commission members include two Afghans and three foreigners, which was appointed by the UN.