UPDATED: Elections 2016 - Voting over, final exit polls released
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Four broadcasters Imedi TV, Maestro, GDS and Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) have updated their exit poll results with final information collected from voters after 8pm on Election Day.
The margin of error was +/- 2 percent, while 9 percent of voters refused to say who they voted for. The field work for the election poll was carried out by Georgian Gorbi company.
The final TNS Global exit poll results showed:
- Georgian Dream - 53.2%
- UNM - 19.5%
- Alliance of Patriots- 5.0%
- Irakli Alasania- Free Democrats - 4%
- Labour Party - 3%
- Paata Burchuladze - State for People - 2.9%
- Nino Burjanadze - Democratic Movement - 2.4%
- Other parties - 6.8%
The survey asked 967 people of their election choices nationwide.
Rustavi 2 have also released its final exit poll results. It's survey was carried out by research company GFK.
The final GFK exit poll results showed:
- Georgian Dream - 39,9%
- UNM - 32%
- Alliance of Patriots - 4.3%
- Irakli Alasania - Free Democrats - 4.1%
- Labour Party - 3.6%
- Paata Burchuladze - State for People - 3.4%
- Nino Burjanadze - Democratic Movement - 2.9%
- Other parties - 9.8%
The margin of error was +/- 1.5 percent, said the Rustavi 2 official website.
EARLIER: 20:15
The final votes have been cast in the last minutes of Georgia's Parliamentary Elections 2016.
At 8pm election rules meant local TV companies started releasing initial exit poll results.
TNS exil poll results
One exit poll commissioned jointly by four broadcasters (Imedi TV, Maestro, GDS and Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) and conducted by TNS Global, an independent market research company from the UK) shows three political parties overcame the 5 percent threshold.
The data was based on nationwide polls carried out before 6pm:
- Georgian Dream - 53,8%
- UNM - 19,5%
- Alliance of Patriots - 5,0%
- Irakli Alasania- Free Democrats - 4%
- Labour Party - 3.1%
- Paata Burchuladze - State for People - 2,7%
- Usupashvili - Republicans - 2,7 %
- Nino Burjanadze - Democratic Movement - 2,3%
- Other parties - less than 1%
The four broadcasters said data based on 8pm polls will be released later.
GFK exit poll results
Results of another exit poll commissioned by Rustavi 2 broadcasting company and carried out by research company GFK, are quite different.
Rustavi 2 did not state what hours the exit poll where carried out; the TV anchor only said they were nationwide and preliminary results:
- Georgian Dream - 39,9%
- UNM - 32,74%
- Alliance of Patriots - 5,76%
- Labour Party - 4,21%
- Paata Burchuladze - State for People - 3,25%
- Irakli Alasania- Free Democrats - 3,21%
- Nino Burjanadze - Democratic Movement - 2,81%
- Usupashvili - Republicans - no data was compiled
- Other parties - 8,12%
All voting stations have closed across Georgia and the ruling party has started celebrating after the party’s own poll and initial exit poll results showed it gained the most support.
All across Georgia today the country’s citizens cast their vote to elect the ninth Parliament, with voting closing at 8pm Tbilisi time.
22% of the votes have been counted and the first preliminary results have been announced by the Central Election Commission.
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The election environment in Georgia, throughout the pre-election campaign and on Election Day itself, was generally peaceful and constructive, says the country's President Giorgi Margvelashvili.
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