Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan Mazahir Panahov has held a press conference on the preliminary outcomes of the snap presidential election.
Panahov disclosed that the results from 6,102 out of 6,537 polling stations (93.35 percent) in 125 constituencies have been submitted to the CEC. He highlighted that the number of valid votes counted according to those protocols amounted to 4,651,473. These valid votes were distributed among the candidates as follows:
Azerbaijan’s 20-year-ruling president Ilham Aliyev leads with 4,281,625 votes (92.05%). At the same time, Zahid Oruj gained 2.19%, Fazil Mustafa - 2%, Gudrat Hasanguliyev - 1.76%, Razi Nurullayev - 0.8%, Elshad Musayev - 0.66%, Fuad Aliyev - 0.53%.
