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TBILISI, May 30 (Reuters) - The party of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili won an election for mayor of the capital Tbilisi and most of 64 municipal votes on Sunday, an exit poll for Georgia's Public Broadcaster television station said.

Success in the first elections since Georgia’s war with Russia in 2008 provides a boost to Saakashvili whose popularity was dented by Georgia’s defeat and the recession that followed.