(26 Mar 2012) ++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of crowds outside party headquarters of Senegal presidential poll winner Macky Sall
2. Mid of Sall banner hanging from building, people on balconies
3. High pan across Sall supporters celebrating, singing and chanting
4. Zoom out of people waving from headquarters building, Sall banner
5. Mid of women dancing, blowing whistles
6. Various of celebrations
7. Mid of man being held up and carried through crowd
8. Wide of people celebrating
STORYLINE:
Jubilant supporters surrounded the party headquarters of Senegal presidential candidate Macky Sall in the capital Dakar on Sunday night.
Celebrations lasted well into the night after President Abdoulaye Wade conceded defeat to his former protege, a few hours after polling closed when preliminary results showed the opposition candidate had trounced the 85-year-old incumbent.
Official results are not expected until Tuesday or Wednesday.
Wade called Sall around 9:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) on Sunday to congratulate him on his victory, state television reported.
It lifted fears that Wade would attempt to stay in office after 12 years or would challenge the runoff results.
But Sall supporters began celebrating in the streets of the capital long before that, singing and marching through downtown Dakar.
The voting had been incident free although the run-up had been marred by violence, with rocks hurled at police and presidential motorcades.
Wade, president since 2000, saw his popularity suffer from soaring costs of living and unemployment and there was widespread dismay last year when he announced his plans to run for a third term.
Sall, 50, is a geologist by training who worked for years under Wade.
The two, though, had a subsequent falling out and Wade referred to Sall as an apprentice who had not yet taken in "the lessons of his mentor."
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