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Highest voter turnout in municipal elections observed in Guba, Gusar districts

Society Materials 23 December 2014 13:24 (UTC +04:00)
The highest voter turnout in Azerbaijan’s municipal elections has been recorded in Gusar and Guba-Gusar constituencies #51 and #53, respectively.
Highest voter turnout in municipal elections observed in Guba, Gusar districts

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.23
By Elchin Mehdiyev - Trend:

The highest voter turnout in Azerbaijan's municipal elections has been recorded in Gusar and Guba-Gusar constituencies #51 and #53, respectively, CEC Information Centre Director Rufat Gulmammadov told Trend on Dec. 23.

He added that the lowest voter turnout has been observed in the constituencies #37, 38, 39 and 40 in Azerbaijan's Ganja city.

The voting in the municipal election is underway in Azerbaijan.

The polling stations opened at 08:00 (UTC/GMT +4 hours). The voting will end at 19:00 (UTC/GMT +4 hours).

Around 15,035 members of 1,607 municipalities should be elected.

The election is conducted on 118 constituencies. The voting will take place at 5,015 polling stations. Around 4,887 are permanent and 128 - temporary. The municipal election is not held in seven constituencies situated in the territory occupied by Armenia.

Around 37,077 candidates were registered in the municipal election. Around 13,907 candidates were nominated by eight political parties, namely, New Azerbaijan party, Ana Vatan party, Civil Solidarity Party, Umid party, Azerbaijani Social Democratic Party, National Revival Movement Party, Azerbaijan Democratic Reforms Party and Boyuk Qurtulus party.

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