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Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 9 /Trend M. Aliyev/
According to Azerbaijani Central Election Commission's (CEC) preliminary data based on counted number of bulletins, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev won the presidential election with 84.94 percent of votes (556,826 votes), a statement posted on the website of the CEC's Information Centre said.
According to preliminary data, the other presidential candidates gained the following amount of votes:
Jamil Hasanli - 4.10 percent (26,875 votes);
Igbal Agazadeh -2.29 percent (15,025 votes);
Gudrat Hasanguliev - 2.26 percent (14,807 votes);
Zahid Oruj - 1.76 percent (11,527 votes);
Ilyas Ismayilov - 1.38 percent (9,041 votes);
Faraj Guliyev - 1.01 percent (6,594 votes);
Araz Alizade - 0.94 percent (6,173 votes);
Hafiz Hajiyev - 0.66 percent (4,358 votes);
Sardar Mammadov (Jalaloglu) - 0.66 percent (4,294 votes).
The presidential election was held in Azerbaijan on Wednesday.
Country's polling stations opened at 8:00 and closed at 19:00 (local time).
Ten candidates took part in the elections including the Chairman of the New Azerbaijan Party, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the chairman of Umid Party Igbal Aghazadeh, self-nominated candidate MP Zahid Oruj, the chairman of the United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (UAPFP) MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev, the chairman of the Modern Musavat Party Hafiz Hajiyev, the chairman of the Azerbaijan Social Democratic Party (ASDP) Araz Alizadeh, the chairman of the National Revival Movement Party, MP Faraj Guliyev, the candidate nominated by the initiative group of voters of the 'National Council of Democratic Forces', Jamil Hasanli, the chairman of the Adalat Party, MP Ilyas Ismayilov and the chairman of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) Sardar Jalaloglu.
The Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan has registered 5,145,643 voters.
In connection with the presidential election, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan established 5,273 permanent and 219 temporary polling stations.
Web cameras have been installed in 1000 polling stations in 119 constituencies of Azerbaijan. Unlike in previous years, this time the voting process was monitored via mobile devices such as smartphones.
Totally, 52,000 people observed the election in Azerbaijan, nearly 1,400 of which were international observers.
Also, the presidential election was covered by over 70 representatives from over 20 international media outlets.