Elections 2016: How many Georgians voted abroad?
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Up to 5,000 Georgian citizens living abroad have voted in the October 8 Parliamentary Elections.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) summed up the final results of the elections conducted at out-of-country polling stations yesterday.
The agency said 4,816 voters living abroad participated in the election.
Here is how their votes were distributed among parties:
- Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia – 1,862 votes
- United National Movement – 1,589 votes
- Free Democrats – 490 votes
- Republicans – 177 votes
- Labour Party of Georgia – 176 votes
- State for people – 90 votes
- Alliance of patriots – 88 votes
- Democratic Movement – 60 votes
- Georgian Idea – 35 votes
- Tamaz Mechiauri for United Georgia – 35 votes
None of other parties received more than 30 votes each.
Georgia opened 57 voting stations in 40 countries to allow Georgian emigrants to have their say in the elections. Two polling stations also opened in Afghanistan for Georgian peacekeepers.
On October 8 Georgian diaspora were only eligible to vote for parties and not majoritarian candidates.
Meanwhile October 27 is the latest date when CEC must announce the final results countrywide.
A second round of October 8 Parliamentary Elections of Georgia will likely take place on October 30 and a repeat vote at four polling stations will likely be held on October 22.
The majority of Georgian citizens living abroad have voted to keep Georgian Dream in power.
The first complete results for Georgia's Parliamentary Elections have been counted - they were submitted from Georgian troops serving in a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan.
For the first time in Georgia's history, an election station has opened in the Southern Hemisphere for today's Parliamentary Elections.
The Election Commission of Georgia's western Autonomous Republic of Adjara has released the final results of Elections 2016. On October 8, in parallel to Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections, people in Adjara region voted to elect lawmakers in the 21-member Supreme Council.