Gambian President Yahya Jammeh threw a beach party and soldiers danced in the streets on Saturday to celebrate his re-election for a third term in Friday's presidential poll, Reuters reported. The president, a bird lover who often carries a ceremonial sword, was declared the winner with 67.3 percent of votes cast across the tiny West African nation. "I hereby declare Yahya J.J. Jammeh has been elected to serve as president of the Republic of the Gambia," Alhagie Mustapha Carayol, chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, told state radio. Hundreds of mostly young Jammeh supporters arrived outside his state house in trucks or hanging out of car windows, banging drums and screaming and whistling as the announcement was made. At a nearby beach a victory party was already getting going. "It was agreed we would jubilate," Mustapha Saine, an official from Jammeh's ruling party, said earlier as workers put up a stage on the beach for the victory rally.