Armenia 2005 Local Elections: Yerevan Districts Where Inaccuracies Exceeded the Margin
In Shengavit the last elected and first unelected council candidates were 5 votes apart; the numbers contained 1,114 inaccuracies. The commission annulled the election; a court restored it.
Original page on electionscount.info: The Electoral Rights and Falsifications of Elections (2010, PDF), p. 48A detailed analysis of the CEC figures for the 2005 local elections, the book says, shows that in many communities the elections were again neither fair nor clean, and that if the law had been applied, many would have been declared invalid on the inaccuracies alone. It gives the figures for several Yerevan districts.
| District, office | Voters | Signatures | Ballots in the box | Mismatches | Official inaccuracy | Margin* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shengavit, council | 98,150 | 29,035 | 29,399 | 1,114 | 991 | 5 |
| Ajapnyak, council | 73,977 | 27,883 | 27,883 | 2,000 | 14 | 11 |
| Davtashen, council | 28,451 | 11,486 | 11,488 | 4 | 28 | 25 |
| Davtashen, head | 26,835 | 12,508 | 11,707 | 803 | 13 | 915 |
| Erebuni, council / head | 87,949 | 33,002 / 33,000 | 33,037 / 32,993 | −29 / −15 | 253 / 411 | 4 / one candidate |
*Votes between the last elected and the first unelected candidate.
How to read this chart
For each election: brown, the mismatches between the numbers in the protocols; grey, the official inaccuracy; red, the margin between the last elected and first unelected candidate. When the brown or grey bar is higher than the red one, the inaccuracies could have changed who was elected.
What it shows
In Shengavit 364 more ballots were in the box than voters signed for, and the inaccuracies (1,114; officially 991) dwarfed the 5-vote margin. In Ajapnyak the official inaccuracy was 14, the margin 11, and the numbers differ by 2,000: the ballots issued (78,196) are not accounted for by signatures and unused ballots. In the Davtashen head election 12,508 signatures but 12,044 valid and 0 invalid ballots.
Under the Code, the council election was invalid when inaccuracies made it impossible to determine the elected candidates. In Shengavit even the electoral commission annulled the result; the court declared it valid.
Source: “The Electoral Rights and Falsifications of Elections” (2010, in Armenian), the earlier Armenian book by the same author, which analyses the officially published figures of each election. The figures here are taken from it; page numbers refer to the PDF.
Data and sources on this site
From the book
This article is based on the 2010 Armenian edition of Electoral Rights and Election Falsification by Lyudvig Khachatryan, which explains the full method, the formulas and the cases behind it.