Exit-poll: Voter turnout hits 46,7 percent throughout country as of 5:00 p.m. (UPDATE)

Editor's Note: new data added

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.7 / Trend, S.Cavadsoy /

Voter turnout throughout the country hit 46,7 as of 5:00 p.m., Irada Yagubova, head of the ELS Independent Research Center, which organizes exit-poll in the Azerbaijani parliamentary elections, told Trend.

Yagubova said the ELS Independent Research Center organizes the exit-poll in Azerbaijan's 1,180 polling stations, except the Nakhchivan city. Some 2,360 observers work in the polling stations, while about 300 employees in the headquarters.

The Azerbaijani Central Election Commission (CEC) reported that 690 candidates are running for the parliamentary elections.

Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are held by the majority system in 125 constituencies. Previous parliamentary elections were held in November 2005.