The Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan has announced preliminary results of the October 9 presidential elections in Azerbaijan, the Independent Press Center said.
"Today we have gone through a very remarkable day. The presidential elections were conducted perfectly," chairman of the Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov said at a press conference. According to him, the voting began at 08.00 a.m. and ended at 07.00 p.m. Of about 5,145,000 eligible voters, 3,720,642 or 72.31% cast their ballot.
The process was monitored by a number of reputable organizations. Webcameras installed in 1000 polling stations enabled people to follow the voting online.
During the voting day, the CEC has not received any complaint. There were only complaints received on the telephone. They were immediately tackled.
Thanking the people of Azerbaijan on the organized participation in the elections, Panahov made public the early results.
He said that the CEC has received early results from 4183 out of 5492polling stations.
The early results suggest the incumbent President Ilham Aliyev has won 2,282,936 votes or 84.73%.
Presidential candidate Jamil Hasanli ranked second by gaining 140.034 votes or 5.2%.
The results of other presidential candidates were as follows: Igbal Agazadeh 62,186 votes (2.31%), Gudrat Hasanguliyev 56,708 votes (2.1%), Zahid Oruj 40,255 (1.40%), Ilyas Ismayilov 30,969 (1.12%), Araz Alizadeh 23,751 votes (0.88%), Faraj Guliyev 23,450 (0.87%), Hafiz Hajiyev 18,582 votes (0.66%), Sardar Mammadov 17,705 votes (0.63%).
The vote counting is underway.
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