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Municipal elections voting ends

All polling stations throughout Georgia closed at 8pm. Photo by N. Alavidze

Agenda.ge, 15 Jun 2014 - 20:27, Tbilisi,Georgia

The voting stage of the 2014 Georgian municipal elections has come to an end.

All polling stations throughout Georgia closed at 8pm. Authorities are now beginning to count the results.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) will begin to publish preliminary results throughout the evening.

Meanwhile, two research companies published the results of the exit polls they carried out.

The deadline by the law for CEC to summarize and publish final voting outcomes is July 9. Before that, you will be able to see the CEC preliminary results on the interactive map created by Agenda.ge.

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