YEREVAN. -The Central Electoral Commission of Armenia ended the calculation of the preliminary results of the country’s presidential vote.

In line with the CEC data, Serzh Sargsyan got 58.64 percent (861,160) of votes, followed by Raffi Hovannisian with 36.75 percent (539,672) of votes. Hrant Bagratyan is in third position with 2.15 percent (31,643) while Paruyr Hayrikyan polled 1.23% (18,093).

Andreas Ghukasyan (0.57%), Vardan Sedrakyan (0.42%), and Arman Melikyan (0.24%), on the other hand, garnered less than one percent of the votes.

Note that Presidential Elections were held in Armenia on Monday, and the seven candidates that ran in the voting were: Ruling Republican Party leader and incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, opposition Heritage Party Chairman and former FM Raffi Hovannisian, opposition Freedom Party Chairman and former PM Hrant Bagratyan, opposition National Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic former FM Arman Melikyan, “Radio Hay” Company Manager and political scientist Andreas Ghukasyan, and non-party affiliate and epic poetry specialist Vardan Sedrakyan.