VICTORIA, Safar 24, 1437, December 06, 2015, SPA -- The Seychelles will go into a presidential election runoff on Dec. 16 after all the six candidates in the first round failed to secure a 50 percent share of the vote, the chairman of the electoral commission said on Sunday, Reuters reportd. The Indian Ocean archipelago nation of 115 islands and 93,000 people went to the polls to pick a new president on Dec. 3 in the three-day vote. The incumbent President James Michel, 71, won 47.76 percent of the 62,004 votes that were cast, while his closest challenger, Wavel Ramkalawan, a 54-year old Anglican priest, scored 33.93 percent. "We will have to go into a second round," said Hendrick Gappy, the chairman of the Seychelles Electoral Commission. Michel, who touted his economic credentials during the campaigns, said the result showed his Parti Lepep, or People's Party in Creole, was still dominant. "We got more votes than any other party. We missed by only two percent. We are ready for the second round," he said. --SPA 10:33 LOCAL TIME 07:33 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w