Armenia CEC issues parliamentary election preliminary results

  03 April 2017    Read: 1593
Armenia CEC issues parliamentary election preliminary results
The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has virtually completely calculated the preliminary results of Sunday’s National Assembly election, AzVision.az reports citing the Armenian Media.
As of Monday 12pm, the CEC has received the respective data from all of the 2,009 election precincts in the country.

Accordingly, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia is in a considerable lead, with 49.12 percent of votes tallied.

The voting results are as follows:

Yelk [Way Out] Bloc – 7.77% (122,049 votes)

Free Democrats Party – 0.94% (14,746)

Armenian Revival Party – 3.71% (58,277)

Tsaurkyan Bloc – 27.32% (428,965)

Congress [Party]-PPA [People’s Party of Armenia] Bloc – 1.65% (25,975)

Republican Party of Armenia – 49.12% (771,247)

Communist Party of Armenia – 0.75% (11,745)

Ohanyan-Raffi - Oskanian Bloc – 2.7% (32,504)

Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun Party – 6.57% (103,173)

According to the CEC preliminary data, the voter turnout in the parliamentary election was 60.93 percent.

Five political parties and four blocs ran for parliament on Sunday. Political parties have to get 5 percent of votes, whereas the blocs need 7 percent to be elected to the National Assembly of Armenia.

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