Preliminary results:
Georgian Dream wins 48 of 50 districts; UNM has no winner
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Majoritarian candidates from the ruling party Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia (GDDG) have won 48 out of 50 majoritarian districts, latest preliminary results show.
The country's main opposition party United National Movement (UNM) had no winning candidate at any of the 50 districts where a runoff vote was taking place.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has counted almost all votes cast in the second round of the Parliamentary Elections 2016. The agency released latest preliminary results and noted these were unlikely to change.
The two districts where a GDDG candidate did not win were:
- #43 district in Khashuri, central Georgia, where the winner was Industrials party candidate Simon Nozadze;
- #1 district in Mtatsminda, Tbilisi, where the winner was independent candidate Salome Zurabishvili. In this district GDDG did not have a candidate and the party supported Zurabishvili.
The election runoff held on October 30 decided the outcome of one third of the total seats in the 150 seat unicameral Parliament of Georgia.
The second round of Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections was held in 50 of Georgia’s 73 election districts yesterday.
A second round of vote was needed in these districts as no majoritarian candidates gained enough votes to enter Parliament in the first election on October 8.
To enter Parliament candidates needed to win at least 50 percent of all votes in their respective voting district.
Ruling Georgian Dream party appears to be winning the second round of Parliamentary Elections in Georgia’s western Autonomous Republic of Adjara.
Georgian Dream wins in 49 of 50 districts
Georgian Dream candidates defeated opponents in all majoritarian districts the district #43 in Khashuri, where the Industrials party candidate Simon Nozadze won the second round.
A leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) monitoring the October 30 runoff round of Georgia's parliamentary elections said the voting was held in "calm and organized manner throughout the country" over the day.
Watch vote counting live from CEC Data Centre
Voting has finished across Georgia and now the process of counting votes and tabulating results are underway. For the first time in the 25-year history of independent Georgia, the Central Election Commission (CEC) is broadcasting live footage of election votes being counted.
“Electoral process was conducted in a calm environment”
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The Central Election Commission (CEC) has summarised the second round of the 2016 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia, noting the electoral process took place in peaceful environment where voters could cast their votes freely.
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