Armenia 2012: Voter Numbers Before and After Election Day
In the last days before the vote the lists gained 18,262 voters. Between election day and the next morning the numbers changed again at 1,203 polling stations.
Original page on electionscount.info: Number of voters published before and after the Election Day, 2012
How to read this table
Each row is a polling station. The column groups come from three moments: the police list published before 3 May 2012 (basic and supplementary lists); elections.am on election day, 6 May (voters and participants); and elections.am on 7 May, after the preliminary results, with the supplementary lists split by type. The last columns give the differences between 6 and 7 May.
Choose a territorial commission (01–41) on the left to switch the table.
What it shows
Station 01/21 is an example: 1,093 voters on the police list, 1,176 on election day and 1,401 the next morning, after 202 people were added on supplementary lists, 99 of them police officers and 97 patients in hospital. Its participants did not change.
Three counts in four days
| Source | Basic list | Supplementary lists | Total voters | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Police list, before 3 May | 2,485,249 | 19,451 | 2,504,700 | |
| elections.am, 6 May (election day) | 2,522,962 | 1,572,518 | ||
| elections.am, 7 May (preliminary results) | 2,500,400 | 24,560 | 2,524,960 | 1,574,235 |
The basic list, which should be fixed weeks before the vote, grew by 15,151 between the police publication and the preliminary results. The supplementary lists on 7 May were: 2,478 voters added by commissions on election day, 16,562 by place of location, 2,260 not registered in Armenia, 1,474 police officers, 1,782 in hospitals and 4 in detention.
What changed overnight
- Registered voters went up at 455 stations, by 4,961 in total, and down at 110, by 2,963.
- Participants went up at 554 stations, by 8,474, and down at 436, by 6,757.
After the polls close, the number of people who voted cannot change: it is the number of signatures in the list. Changes of this size at 1,203 stations show how fluid the official numbers were, and why the book insists that every set of election numbers be published, by polling station, the moment it becomes known. See voting on behalf of others.
Data and sources on this site
From the book
This article is based on Chapter IV of Electoral Rights and Election Falsification by Lyudvig Khachatryan, which explains the full method, the formulas and the cases behind it.