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Voter turnout at Armenia’s early parliamentary polls reaches 48.63%

Armenia’s Central Election Commission added that the voter turnout at the previous parliamentary elections was 60.84%

YEREVAN, December 9. /TASS/. The voter turnout at Armenia’s early parliamentary polls on Sunday was 48.63%, chief of the country’s Central Election Commission Tigran Mukuchyan said.

"According to preliminary data, as many as 1,260,840 people, or 48.63% of eligible voters, took part in the voting," he said, adding that the voter turnout at the previous parliamentary elections in April 2017 was 60.84%

Polling stations closed at 20:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time).

The Armenian law does not stipulate any voter turnout threshold and the election will be recognized as valid even if the figure is low.

No exit polls are allowed to be published until the vote ends in the country.

Nine parties and two blocs are vying for seats in the parliament. A party needs to score at least five percent of the vote, while a bloc is required to have at least seven percent to win seats in the national legislature.