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For six straight days, Rindala Kodeih held a comfortable cushion, stretching the gap to 38% at one point while Joe Bou Eid trailed everywhere from day two onward. Then, on day 7 of 9, the whole race flipped: Joe Bou Eid overtook her and never gave the margin back, closing at 40.5% to her 36.2% — a 104-vote final gap built almost entirely in the last three days.

The late surge wasn't a fluke of geography — Lebanon and the US, the two biggest vote pools, both broke for Joe Bou Eid, while Jordan stayed loyal to Rindala Kodeih. Everyone else in the field was an afterthought: third-place Yahya Saade topped out at 8.1%, with the other nine names combined barely cracking 15% of the vote.

• Day 7 flip · Joe Bou Eid overtook a six-day Rindala Kodeih lead and held it.
• Final margin · Joe Bou Eid wins by just 104 votes, 40.5% to 36.2%.
• Country split · Lebanon and the US favored Joe Bou Eid; Jordan stuck with Rindala Kodeih.