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Final voter turnout in parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan disclosed

Politics Materials 10 February 2020 01:36 (UTC +04:00)
The voter turnout in the Azerbaijani parliamentary elections amounted to 47.81 percent
Final voter turnout in parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan disclosed

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 10

By Elchin Mehdiyev - Trend:

The voter turnout in the Azerbaijani parliamentary elections amounted to 47.81 percent (2,547,982 voters) out of 5,329,461 voters according to the final results, Farid Orujov, head of the Elections Information Center of the Azerbaijani Central Election Commission (CEC), told reporters on Feb. 10, Trend reports.

The parliamentary elections of the sixth convocation were held in Azerbaijan on Feb. 9. Some 1,314 candidates were registered within the early parliamentary elections.

The candidacies of 246 people were nominated by 19 political parties, 1,057 were self-nominated, 11 - by initiative groups. Twenty-one percent accounted for female candidates while 79 percent – male candidates.

Throughout the day, 5,573 permanent polling stations operated in 125 constituencies of the country. There were 5,329,461 registered voters.

Some 883 international observers and 77,790 local observers monitored the voting process. Among the local observers, 35,152 were representatives of political parties. International observers represented 58 countries and 59 organizations.

Exit polls were conducted by AJF & Associates Inc. (US) jointly with Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, the Rey Monitoring Center, and the French OpinionWay Research Institute together with the “Human Rights in the XXI Century – Azerbaijan” Foundation.

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