Ruling party claims it will receive 50.9% of votes in October 2 municipal race in Tbilisi
A total of 31 political parties, 2,807 majoritarian candidates and 201 mayoral candidates are registered for the upcoming municipal election in Georgia. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party has announced earlier today that it will receive 50.9% of votes in Tbilisi while the largest opposition United National Movement (UNM) party will get 25.2% of the votes in the October 2 self-government elections in Georgia’s capital.
Per the GD survey the results for political parties are as distributed:
- Georgian Dream - 50.9%
- United National Movement - 25.2%
- For Georgia - 5.7%
- Girchi-More Freedom - 3.4%
- Alliance of Patriots - 3.1%
- Lelo for Georgia - 2.9 %
- Citizens - 2.6%
- Third Force - 1.7%
- European Georgia - 1.1%
- Labour Party - 0.9%
- Girchi - 0.4%
- Other parties - 2.1%
The GD also states that their candidate for Tbilisi mayor, incumbent Kakha Kaladze will win the municipal race with 57.9% of votes.
Based on the GD polls the rating list for Tbilisi mayor candidates is as followed:
- Kakha Kaladze (GD) - 57.9%
- Nika Melia (joint candidate of several opposition parties) - 27.8%
- Giorgi Gakharia (For Georgia) - 5.3%
- Ana Bibilashvili (Lelo) - 2.5%
- Giorgi Lomia (Alliance of Patriots) - 2.1%
- Ana Dolidze (For People) - 1.6%
- Tamar Kekenadze (Third Force) - 0.6%
- Mikheil Kumsishvili (Labour Party) - 0.5%
- Other candidates - 1.7%
The survey was conducted between September 16-20 and 2,792 respondents were interviewed. The margin of error of the survey is 3%.
The GD also announced that based on their survey the ruling party gets 32 out of 50 seats in Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo), the UNM receives 11 seats while for the other two parties For Georgia and Girchi-More Freedom two each seats are allocated and one each for Alliance of Patriots, Lelo and Citizens.
A total of 31 political parties, 2,807 majoritarian candidates and 201 mayoral candidates are registered for the upcoming municipal election in Georgia.
All Georgian constituencies will be provided with video cameras to record the vote-counting process during the upcoming October 2 municipal elections, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Giorgi Sioridze announced earlier today. Sioridze also noted that video recordings are the only ‘new technological innovation’ implemented for the upcoming elections.
There are 3,540,609 potential voters in the updated list which was handed over to the Central Election Commission (CEC) by the Public Service Development Agency (PSDA) today.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party says that their candidate for Tbilisi mayor, incumbent Kakha Kaladze, will receive 60.1% in the October 2 local elections. Per GD’s poll, the head of the United National Movement (UNM) Nika Melia, who is the joint candidate of the opposition parties for Tbilisi mayor, will receive 29.2% in self-government elections.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili condemns any form of violence and intimidation ahead of the October 2 municipal elections. Garibashvili, who is attending the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, wrote on Facebook that violence and intimidation ‘is unacceptable from any person, group and party’.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party is expected to receive 36% of the vote while the largest opposition United National Movement (UNM) party is likely to get 27% of the vote in the upcoming municipal elections nationwide, says Edison Research polls commissioned by opposition-minded TV channel Formula.
Election polls commissioned by the opposition-minded TV channel Mtavari Arkhi says that the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party will receive 35% of the vote while the largest opposition United National Movement (UNM) party will get 30% of the vote in the upcoming October 2 municipal race.
The ruling Georgian Dream party has 49.6% support in the municipal elections, Imedi TV commission poll says. The opposition United National Movement (UNM) comes next with 25.9% of support. Meanwhile, ruling party mayoral candidate Kakha Kaladze would receive 53.6% of the votes if the elections were held today; 27.7% would vote for UNM candidate Nika Melia.
Eleven days are left until the October 2 municipal elections in Georgia when voters will elect 64 mayors and 2,068 members in 64 city councils. The lead up to the elections has been marked by the ruling party’s withdrawal from the April 19 EU-mediated agreement, an attack on journalists by right-wing activists in July during Tbilisi Pride events, the recent leak of alleged personal files and continued vows of Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili that he will return.