Unsurprisingly, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad won a controversial election held in regime-controlled territory with a sweeping 88.7 percent of the vote, parliament speaker Mohammad al-Lahham announced late on Wednesday.

The other two candidates won 4.3 percent and 3.2 percent of the votes respectively in the poll dismissed as a "farce" by the main opposition and the West.

Turnout in the presidential election reached 73.42 percent of registered voters, the constitutional court had declared earlier.

"The number of people called to vote, both inside and outside Syria, was of 15,840,575. Of the total, 11.6 million participated," said court spokesman Majed Khadra, giving a turnout of 73.42 percent.

Celebratory shots fired by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed at least three people in Damascus as his election victory was announced, a monitoring group said.

"At least three people were killed and dozens more wounded as a result of celebratory gunfire shot by Assad supporters," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Celebratory gunfire also erupted in several Lebanese regions to celebrate Assad’s foregone victory.