BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 1. The turnout in the parliamentary election is really high at the moment, the representative of the American organization “Oracle Advisory Group” Vlada Galan told Trend.
“The high turnout emphasizes the incredibly democratic election process here in Azerbaijan. This is a great victory for democracy. This is our seventh election in Azerbaijan for our team. We have been working here since 2013 conducting exit polls,” she said.
According to her, today Oracle Advisory Group covers 875 polling stations and 20 data operators who collect information coming from the polling stations. The organization records that information and sends it to a data center in New York for processing.
“We will conduct 63,000 interviews, and the results will start coming in tonight. We have already completed one reporting round, collecting 21,000 inquiries. We have the results, but we will wait until the next reporting round at 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. before we announce the results this evening here at the data center,” added Vlada Galan.
On June 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree dissolving the sixth convocation of the Azerbaijani Parliament and scheduling the extraordinary election for September 1.
Azerbaijan has 6,421,960 registered voters, including 374 who turned 18 on the election day. There are 6,478 polling stations, comprising 6,343 permanent and 135 temporary locations.
In the territories liberated from occupation, 54 permanent polling stations are set up. There are 10 electoral districts for internally displaced persons (IDPs), with 574 IDP polling stations serving 397,862 voters. More than 42,000 voters will cast their ballots in the liberated areas.
A total of 51,141 voters will participate for the first time in the extraordinary parliamentary election. The oldest female voter is 134 years old, and the oldest voter is 109 years old.
Exit polls will be conducted at approximately 2,500 polling stations. Three international organizations are registered to carry out these polls: the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, together with Oracle Advisory Group (US), and the "Tereggi" Public Association for Social Research, in collaboration with the Italian SWG S.p.A. research company.
A total of 112,749 local observers have been registered, including over 65,000 representatives of political parties. There are 598 international observers from 51 organizations and 69 countries, including 227 from OSCE/ODIHR and 61 from OSCE PA.
Among the 990 registered candidates, 305 represent 25 political parties, while 371 are party members but were not nominated by their parties. In total, 676 candidates are affiliated with political parties.
Webcams have been installed at 1,000 polling stations nationwide to allow direct and continuous observation of the voting process without requiring registration.
Portable ballot boxes will be used across all polling stations for the parliamentary election on September 1.
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