POLITICS
CEC announces preliminary results of parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan
Baku, February 10, AZERTAC
The Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has announced the preliminary results of the elections to the Milli Majlis, secki-2020.az reports.
A detailed list of candidates can be found here.
The parliamentary elections were held in Azerbaijan on February 9. Some 1,314 candidates were registered within the early parliamentary elections.
The candidacies of 246 people were nominated by 19 political parties, 1,057 were self-nominated, 11 - by initiative groups. Twenty-one percent accounted for female candidates, while 79 percent - male candidates.
Throughout the day, 5,573 permanent polling stations operated in 125 constituencies of the country. There were 5,329,461 registered voters.
Some 883 international observers and 77,790 local observers monitored the voting process. Among the local observers, 35,152 were representatives of political parties. International observers represented 58 countries and 59 organizations.
Exit polls were conducted by AJF & Associates Inc. (US) jointly with Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, the Rey Monitoring Center, and the French OpinionWay Research Institute together with the “Human Rights in the XXI Century - Azerbaijan” Foundation.