March 1 (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has won a second term in office, according to provisional official election results announced on Thursday. Here are some key facts about Wade: EARLY LIFE: * Born in the northern Sengalese coastal city of Saint Louis on May 1926, Wade was educated in primary and secondary schools in Paris. He is married to a French woman and has two children. * He holds degrees and teaching certificates in economics, law, humanities, mathematics and physics. * Wade worked as a barrister for a few years in Besancon, France before returning to Senegal where he opened his own law firm and began teaching courses at the University of Dakar. * He became a permanent faculty member in the law school and department of economics, and later served as dean of the law school. ROAD TO POWER: * Wade first ran for president against Senegal's first post-independence president Leopold Sedar Senghor in 1978 and lost. * When riots followed a contested 1988 presidential election, he was thrown in jail. Found guilty of inciting insurrection, he was given a one-year suspended sentence. Senghor's successor Abdou Diouf amnestied him but he lost his seat in the National Assembly. * He ran again in 1993, taking second place behind Diouf. ELECTION WIN: * The year 2000 marked the end of a long march to power that began when Wade broke with the Socialists, then the country's only party, to press for multi-party politics. Wade's victory in 2000 presidential elections ended four decades of Socialist domination since independence from France in 1960. * A 2001 referendum shortened future presidential terms to five years. * In October, 2006, the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) backed the 80-year-old president to stand for a second term. * In a Feb. 25, 2007 presidential election, Wade gained 55.86 percent of the valid votes to win a second mandate.
