(ANSA-AP) - TALLINN, MARCH 4- Preliminary results from Estonia's parliamentary election show a center-right party that held the prime minister's office for over a decade was the top vote-getter, but a far-right populist party also had a big win. Returns reported early Monday from all of the small Baltic country's 451 polling places gave the Reform Party 28.8 percent of the vote from Sunday's election. Prime Minister Juri Ratas' Center Party, the senior partner in a coalition government, received 23 percent. The nationalist Estonian Conservative People's Party, known as EKRE, had 17.8 percent. Traditional power-brokers had hoped to prevent EKRE from gaining seats in parliament and vowed not to include it in a governing coalition. The Reform Party held the prime minister's post continuously from 2005-2016. Its current leader, Kaja Kallas, is the daughter of the party's founder, former prime minister Siim Kallas.

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