YEREVAN. – The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia held a special session on Sunday and announced the final results of the May 6 parliamentary elections. 

CEC Chairman Tigran Mukuchyan informed that the total number of eligible voters was 2,501,597 from whom 1,57,053 actually cast their ballots, and 53,831 ballots were declared invalid (PHOTOS).

The proportional election (party, bloc list) National Assembly votes are distributed as follows:

Republican Party of Armenia – 664,640 (44.02%)

Prosperous Armenia Party – 454,673 votes (30.12%)

Armenian National Congress – 106,903 (7.8%)

Heritage Party – 86,996 votes (5.76%)

ARF Dashnaktsutyun Party – 85,550 (5.67%)

Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) Party – 83,123 (5.51%)

Communist Party of Armenia – 15,895 (1.5%)

Democratic Party of Armenia – 5,577 (0.37%)

United Armenians Party – 2,946 (0.2%)

The number of inaccuracies was 3,355.

Proportional-system elections were held in 1,982 polling stations at 41 constituencies.

A total of 531—478 of which from one citizen alone—election-related petitions were received. All petitions were examined and respective decisions were made.  

Earlier, the CEC had rejected the Armenian National Congress’ formal request to cancel the May 6 parliamentary elections.