23 pct voter turnout at Azeri local election re-runs
Election re-runs and additional polls for 464 seats in 330 municipalities were held in Azerbaijan on Wednesday. Voter turnout was around 23.4 percent, according to the country’s senior electoral body.
Preliminary tallies were to be announced in the early morning hours on Thursday.
1,549 candidates contested the vacant seats in the local bodies. Among the candidates were members of nine political parties, including the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP), pro-government Ana Vatan party, opposition-leaning Civil Solidarity Party, pro-opposition United Azerbaijan Popular Front and Democratic Reform Parties, opposition Umid (Hope) Party, and others. 709 independent nominees stood in the election as well.
Azerbaijan’s main opposition parties did not take part in the elections.
305 of the election candidates, or around 19.7 percent, were women.
A total of 1,155,864 voters were eligible to cast their ballots in 1,169 polling stations during the municipal elections.
9,923 observers had been registered to monitor the polling.
The last municipal election was held in Azerbaijan on December 23, 2009.
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