Armenia 2008 Presidential Election: Turnout Above 100%, and Above 200%

At 22 polling stations more than twice as many people voted as were on the list. At about 635 stations participation exceeded the voters available by 78,957.

By Lyudvig Khachatryan · November 11, 2026

The presidential election of 19 February 2008 was followed by protests and, on 1 March, deaths. The book’s analysis of the official figures begins with turnout.

Lists and turnout

• 70,045 voters in the published lists had day and month of birth recorded as zero.
• 1,923 stations; voters, including supplementary lists, 2,328,831; declared voters 2,317,000.
• Participants by the final results: 1,671,027, about 72%.

How to read this chart

For each level, the bar is how many participants were reported above it in total, at the stations that exceeded it.

What it shows

• 55 stations reported 21,984 more participants than voters: turnout above 100%.
• 22 stations exceeded 200%, by 9,360.
• At 191 stations participation exceeded 90% by 31,254; at about 195 stations it exceeded the one-day capacity of the station by about 36,000.
• Above 80%: 56,077 at 409 stations; above 73%: 91,629 at 755.

Taking account of residents actually present in each community, the book estimates that at about 635 stations participation exceeded the available voters by 78,957.

Stations with three to ten times more participants than voters included Nerkin Hand (38/40), Aravus (37/18) and Tegh (37/39) in Syunik and Kut (23/58) in Gegharkunik: the same villages that had more voters than residents in 2003 and lists swollen on election morning in 2018.

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.