41.66% turnout recorded in elections to Yerevan city council on Sunday by 18:00 local time

YEREVAN, May 31. /ARKA/. Abram Bakhchagulyan, secretary of Armenian Central Election Commission says 41.66% turnout was recorded in elections to Yerevan city council on Sunday by 18:00 local time.

“There are 771,477 Yerevan residents eligible to vote. Of them, 321,403 or 41.66% have voted by 17:00”, he said.

Bakhchagulyan said that 49.97 voted in Shengavit (the highest turnout) and 31.67% in Erebuni (the lowest turnout).

He said 40.53% voted in Nor-Nork, 40.43% in Kanaker-Zeytun, 34.66% in Arabkir, 47.96% in Davitashen, 39.35 in Nubarashen, 49.62% in Avan, 43.38% in Achapnyak, 45.59% in Malatia-Sebastia, 39.37% in Kentron and 44.5% in Nork-Marash.

Only ten people restored their right to vote by 17:00 and then voted on additional lists.

Elections to the city council are being held in Yerevan for the first time. The council will consist of 65 members.

The first number in the list of the party than wins the majority of seats in the council will automatically take up the mayor post.

Six political parties and one bloc will run in the elections.

Three of them – Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia and Orinats Yerkir – are members of the ruling coalition.

Other competitors are Armenian revolutionary federation Dasgnaktsutiun, People’s Party, Labor Socialist Party of Armenia and Armenian National Congress opposition bloc.

Now Republican Gagic Beglaryan is the mayor of Yerevan. M.V.-0---