At this moment, polling stations are opening across Armenia, and nationwide voting for the country’s National Assembly (parliament) elections—which all political forces running in the elections describe as crucial—is starting.

Armenian citizens in Armenia can exercise their right to vote until 20:00 local time.

There will be no voting outside Armenia.

Starting at noon, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia will publicize voter turnout data every 3 hours, with a one-hour delay; that is, at noon it will be known how many citizens voted as of 11:00, and so on.

And that at approximately 23:00, the CEC is expected to begin announcing the results of voting in the smallest and most remote rural election precincts, which, however, cannot reflect the overall picture.

Taking into account the many years of experience of previous years, it can be stated that the ratio of political forces in the new parliament to be formed to elect Armenia's next prime minister will become more or less clear around 02:00-03:00 at night. It is at this time that data from large cities, including the capital Yerevan—which has one third of the country’s voters, will begin to be received. The online counting of votes will end at 08:00 Monday.

The Armenian parliament is elected under a proportional representation electoral system; that is, only by party lists. Sixteen parties and two blocs are vying for seats in the 9th convocation of the National Assembly of Armenia. The threshold for passing into parliament for parties is set at 4%, and for blocs—8%. When calculating the final election results, invalid ballots and those that have deliberately been rendered invalid are simply omitted and not counted. The percentages of votes received by political forces are determined solely on the basis of the total number of valid ballots.