Armenia 2007 Parliamentary Elections: Mismatches at 1,310 Polling Stations

At 515 stations the boxes held 6,302 more envelopes than people who voted.

By Lyudvig Khachatryan · November 11, 2026

The book applies to 2007 the same arithmetic checks it applies to every election: do signatures, envelopes and ballots agree?

• Mismatches between electoral numbers at 1,310 stations. Taking only the largest error at each, their sum is 16,660.
• Officially recorded inaccuracies: 14,665 at 1,145 stations.

How to read this chart

Each bar is a kind of “negative” mismatch, where the box contains more than the voters can account for, with its total and the number of stations.

What it shows

• Envelopes in the box above participants: 6,302 at 515 stations.
• Ballots above participants: 1,481 at 142.
• Ballots above envelopes: 1,286 at 191.
• Altogether such negative mismatches, “which testify to false counts and stuffing”: 8,096 at 674 stations.

At many stations the district and party-list votes did not agree on the numbers of voters and participants; some protocols’ numbers were changed; criminal cases were opened against some commission members “but…”.

How to read this chart

Top: votes and shares for the 23 lists, numbered as on the ballot (15 = Republican Party, 4 = Prosperous Armenia, 10 = ARF, 23 = Rule of Law, 6 = Heritage). Below: the 90 seats: 41, 18, 16, 8 and 7.

What it shows

The Republican Party received 458,258 votes (33.9%), Prosperous Armenia 204,483, ARF 177,907, Rule of Law 95,324, Heritage 81,048. 29% of the votes, mostly for opposition parties, won no seats.

“There were no fair and clean elections in Armenia in 2007 either.”

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.