Algeria's electoral body said on Friday that former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune had won Thursday's presidential election with 58% of the vote, according to preliminary results.
The final voter turnout was 40%, the electoral body's head said in a televised news conference in Algiers.
Tebboune served as prime minister for less than three months in 2017. He was then dismissed by then-President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika and replaced by Ahmed Ouyahia.