Central Election Commission reports 49 percent turnout for municipal election runoff
Voter turnout throughout the country and for the capital city mayor vote was reported by the election body after polls closed on Saturday. Photo: Nino Alavidze/agenda.ge.
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Georgia's Central Election Commission has reported a 49.09 percent turnout for the municipal election runoff in the country on Saturday, as the body is expected to release its preliminary results for the voting during the night between Saturday and Sunday.
The CEC said the runoff had seen 1,025,406 registered citizens cast their vote during the day in the closely contested races in 20 election constituencies, including the five large cities of Georgia - Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Rustavi, Batumi and Poti.
Turnout for Tbilisi - where Georgian Dream and United National Movement candidates are locked in the contest for the position of city mayor - was reported at 47,7 percent, with 478,642 voters arriving at polling stations.
The stations were closed at 8pm local time, with the CEC now busy counting the results arriving from polling stations and going through the data.
Agenda.ge visitors can follow the data on our interactive map displaying results, turnout and other figures, per region and city.
The mayoral run-offs in 17 of 20 constituencies were held between the candidates of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the United National Movement, while in three other constituencies, GD candidates opposed representatives of the parties For Georgia, For United Georgia, and an independent candidate.
Both Tbilisi mayoral candidates Kakha Kaladze and Nika Melia from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party and the United National Movement (UNM) celebrate the victory in the municipal election run-offs ahead of the official announcement of the results.
The results of exit commissioned by Imedi TV from Gorbi and by opposition-minded Mtavari Arkhi channel from Anova have been released following the closure of polling stations in Georgia in the municipal election run-offs. The exit polls offer differing pictures of the results.
Eight cases of alleged violations and breaking of law are under investigation by the interior ministry, with one individual arrested, as clashes at or outside polling stations across Georgia have been reported on municipal runoff day.
Agenda.ge team has put together an interactive map showing results of the 2021 municipal elections in real time, as the Central Election Commission is preparing to announce its preliminary data on the votes late during the night between Saturday and Sunday.
The Central Election Commission has reported 219 formal complaints from the election runoff voting by 11pm on Saturday, most of them "procedural" violations.
The preliminary results of the Central Election Commission (CEC) show that the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party mayoral candidates are leading in all five large self-governing cities of Georgia. The GD Tbilisi mayor candidate and incumbent mayor Kakha Kaladze leads with 55% in the city where 57% of the votes are counted.