Civil Contract takes strong lead in Armenia’s parliamentary elections, early results show

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party is leading in the parliamentary elections, according to early vote-count results based on 864,643 ballots from 1,354 polling stations out of 2,005.

According to the vote count, Civil Contract garnered 434,562 votes, or 50.83%.

Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia bloc is the runner-up with 201,006 votes, or 23.51%. Former President Robert Kocharyan’s Armenia Alliance received 80,937 votes, or 9.47%.

The following are the other results published by the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia:

Reformists Party — 847 votes, 0.1%

Against All Democratic Party — 11,382 votes, 1.33%

Meritocratic Party of Armenia — 15,986 votes, 1.87%

New Power Reformist Party — 13,109 votes, 1.53%

Wings of Unity Party — 19,270 votes, 2.25%

Prosperous Armenia Party — 35,074 votes, 4.10%

National Democratic Pole Party — 2,997 votes, 0.35%

Kochari National Revival and National Awakening Party — 1,093 votes, 0.13%

Armenian National Congress — 1,759 votes, 0.21%

Republic Party — 8,666 votes, 1.01%

Christian Democratic Party — 1,484 votes, 0.17%

Democratic Consolidation Party — 2,951 votes, 0.35%

Democracy, Law and Order Party — 15,483 votes,1.81%

Alliance of Defenders of the Republic’s Democracy — 3,973 votes, 0.46%

Bright Armenia — 4,060 votes, 0.47%.

Election officials reported 59 percent turnout after voting ended at 20:00 on June 7.