On 6
May, at 10:00 the Central Electoral Commission summarized the preliminary
results of the municipal elections in Yerevan.

The
results received from all 464 precinct stations demonstrate that the leading
forces are the Republican party of Armenia, “Prosperous Armenia” party and
“Barev Yerevan” coalition- the Yerevan council will be formed out of them.

The
number of votes received by political parties and coalitions follows as:

Republican
Party of Armenia  – 235.512 (55,89 per cent)

Political party “Prosperous Armenia”
– 97.189 (23,07 per cent)

Coalition of political parties “Barev
Yerevan”– 35.732 (8,48 per cent)

Political party“Armenian National
Congress”– 18.499 (4,39per cent)

Armenian
Revolutionary party Dashnaktsutyun
– 15.999 (3,80per cent)

Political party “Rule of Law”–
15.733 (3,73per cent)

Political party “Mission”– 2.692
(0,64per cent)

According
to the law of Armenia, at the Yerevan municipal elections, the threshold for
political parties is 6 per cent and for coalitions of political parties- 8 per
cent. Thus, the RPA, Prosperous Armenia and Barev Yerevan will form the council
of Yerevan.

The law
also defines that the candidate of the winning party, which received the majority
of votes, becomes the mayor of Yerevan. Based on the preliminary results, the
leader of the RPA list TaronMargaryan was re-elected in the position of the
mayor.

According
to the final data from the RA Police, the overall number of voters was 816.478։As of preliminary data, 437, 212 voters participated in the
elections- 53,55 per cent of voters.

The number of marked envelopes in
the ballot boxes was 436.590, 15.250 ballots were considered as void.

Let us
note that the final results of the elections will be presented by the Central
Electoral Commission in 7 days from elections, on 12 May.