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More than half of voters have voted in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary election - CEC (UPDATE-4)

Kyrgyzstan Materials 10 October 2010 20:51 (UTC +04:00)
51.65% voters have voted by 8.00 pm in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections, AKIpress news agency quoted the Central Election Commission as reporting.
More than half of voters have voted in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary election - CEC (UPDATE-4)

Editor's note: data on voter turnout and overseas voter turnout updated

51.65% voters have voted by 8.00 pm in Kyrgyzstan's parliamentary elections, AKIpress news agency quoted the Central Election Commission as reporting.

The voting has ended at 08.00 pm (1400 GMT) local time on Sunday

43,676 Kyrgyzstanis, that is 56.8 percent of registered voters, have voted abroad as of 6 p.m., 24.kg news agency quoted the press service of the Foreign Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic as reporting.

According to the report, the total number of voters in Russia has made up 40,070 persons. Of them in Moscow - 1,957, in Yekaterinburg - 10,453, in Novosibirsk - 7,107, in Chita - 2,392, in Chelyabinsk - 4,113.

3,309 Kyrgyz citizens have voted by 6 a.m. in Krasnoyarsk, 1,628 - in Surgut, 2,940 - in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 195 - in Kazan, 707 voters - in Samara.

In Austria 25 Kyrgyz citizens have visited polling stations, in Uzbekistan - 192, in Kazakhstan - 2,037, in Germany - 489, in Belgium - 100, in Iran - 28, in Pakistan - 32, in Turkey - 202, in Korea - 95, in China - 80, in Dubai city - 69.

There are 2,200 polling stations across the country and 2.8 million registered voters, accounting for over half of Kyrgyzstan's population, according to official figures.

A total of 29 political parties were competing for 120 seats in the new government in which the prime minister will have more power than the president.   

Analysts predict only six parties have a realistic chance to get into parliament.   

According to the election rules, seats will be distributed proportionately to parties winning at least 5 percent of the vote nationwide and at least 0.5 percent of the vote in each of Kyrgyzstan's administrative regions and two key cities. This is designed to prevent a party from winning representation if it lacks broad nationwide support.   

The Kyrgyz Central Election Commission has accredited 850 international observers from 52 countries and 32 organizations to monitor the election.

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