Nobel laureate peace winner Jose Ramos-Horta won Wednesday's presidential run-off in Timor-Leste, national election commission spokesperson Maria Angelina Lopes Sarmento announced Thursday.

Horta got 73 percent or 273,685 votes of the total 90 percent or 375,095 counted votes in the entire nation, while his rival Francisco Guterres Lu Olo got 27 percent or 101,374 of the total votes, said the spokesperson.

"Horta got the highest votes in the tabulation of all the 13 districts in the country far exceeded Guterres," she told a press conference.

Two presidential candidates, former guerrilla fighter and the chairman of the parliament Guterres, and the incumbent Prime Minister Horta, competed on Wednesday to replace the position of President Xanana Gusmao, who seeks re-election for more powerful position of prime minister.

Guterres obtained the highest votes in the April's first round and his rival Horta at the second position.

Guterres, nominated by the biggest leading party of Fretelin and Horta is an independent candidate.

The Wednesday's run-off run peacefully, no major incident occurred, according to the United Nations.

The presidential and the upcoming parliament election in June will be the first since the country got independence in May 2002, after 24 years ruled by Indonesia.

The 57-year-old former journalist Horta won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for the worldwide resistance campaign. He spearheaded against Indonesian rule while in exile after 1975.

He come back to Timor-Leste in 1999 after the former Indonesian province won referendum for independence.

Horta was appointed as foreign minister in 2002 and he was also appointed as prime minister in July 2006, after incumbent prime minister Mari Alkatiri was toppled over the accusations of implicating violence that killed more than 23 people and displaced over 30,000 others.

He was one of the founding members of the country's leading political party of Fretilin.

Source: Xinhua