Ilham Aliyev leading in presidential election with 92.05 percent of votes - CEC-UPDATED

Ilham Aliyev leading in presidential election with 92.05 percent of votes - CEC-UPDATED
# 08 February 2024 03:10 (UTC +04:00)

Ilham Aliyev is leading in the presidential election in Azerbaijan with 92.05 percent of the votes after the processing of 93.35 percent of the ballots, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Mazahir Panahov said at a briefing, APA reports.

Zahid Oruj received 2.19% of the votes, Razi Nurullayev - 0.8%, Fazil Mustafa - 2%, Elshad Musaev - 0.67%, Gudrat Hasanguliyev - 1.76%, Fuad Aliyev - 0.53% of the votes.

Voting for the presidential election in Azerbaijan has finished.

With a total of 6,478,623 people on the voter list, voting took place at 6,537 polling sites across the country. Over 90,000 observers have enrolled to oversee the election.

The election took place across the entire territory of Azerbaijan, including territories recently liberated from Armenian occupation.

The US-based Oracle Advisory Group and the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League have jointly released the results of an exit poll conducted during the presidential election in Azerbaijan.

According to the organization, 93.9 percent of voters cast their ballots for Ilham Aliyev.

The Social Research Center says that 92.4 percent of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev.

Based on the results of the exit poll of the Ray Monitoring Center, 92.6 percent of voters voted for Ilham Aliyev.

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Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan Mazahir Panahov has announced the preliminary results based on data collected from 54.47 percent of polling stations in the presidential election, APA reports.

During the press conference, Mazahir Panahov said: “Today, elections have been conducted in all 125 polling stations in Azerbaijan. So far, according to the data received by the Central Election Commission, out of 6,537 polling stations, information from 3,561, or 54.47 percent, has been tabulated. Ilham Aliyev has garnered 92.1 percent of the votes based on the counting of 2,711,804 valid votes. Aliyev Ilham Heydar oglu has received 2,497,542 votes (92.1 percent of valid votes), leading by a significant margin.

The remaining votes are distributed among the other candidates as follows:

Oruj Zahid Maharram oglu – 59,719 votes (2.2%);

Mustafa Fazil Gazanfar oglu – 53,986 votes (1.99%);

Hasanguliyev Gudrat Muzaffar oglu – 48,315 votes (1.78%);

Nurullayev Razi Gulamali oglu – 21,406 votes (0.79%);

Musayev Elshad Nabi oglu – 17,855 votes (0.66%);

Aliyev Fuad Aghasi oglu – 12,981 votes (0.48%)

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