Armenian election results take an odd turn

CAUCASUS / CENTRAL ASIA - In Brief 08 Jun 2026 by Ivan Tchakarov
In a rather odd development, the Central Election Commission announced changes in the results previously reported on its website. Trying to explain the changes would only spoil interpretation, so I take the liberty of simply citing CEC Chairman verbatim: "You have all seen the figures published on our website, and in fact they do not include the results of electronic voting. Furthermore, the percentage calculations performed by the website's system are rounded to two decimal places. In other words, if you simply add up the figures published on our website and calculate the percentages based on those absolute numbers, you will notice a certain discrepancy at the thousandths-of-a-percent level. This is in addition to the fact that those figures do not include the results of electronic voting, which I am now going to announce now."So, according to the revised data, the fresh results are the following: Civil Contract – 49.825% (49.81% previously), Strong Armenia – 23.281% (23.29% previously) , Armenia Alliance – 9.934% (9.94% previously) and, critically, Prosperous Armenia – 3.996% (4.0% previously). This, of course, means that the latter does not pass the 4.0% threshold and does not enter the National Assembly. The new distribution of seats sees Civil Contract with 64 seats, Strong Armenia with 29 seats, and Armenia Alliance with 12 seats.This will have meaningful implications for the ability of Civil Contract to initiate changes in the Constitution as now the party will have the slimmer 3/5 majority, which is needed for certain modifications of the main law (see slide 11 in the Presentation). I suspect this might not be the end of the story as the final tally must be pre...

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