Armenia 2018: Voter Lists and Turnout on Election Day, Preliminary and Final
On the morning of 9 December 2018, 18,700 voters were added to the lists of 77 polling stations; the list of Aravus grew from 159 to 1,176.
Original page on electionscount.info: Changes in the numbers of voters and participants, 2018Armenia held early parliamentary elections on 9 December 2018, half a year after the change of power. Eleven lists stood. Nikol Pashinyan’s My Step alliance won about 70% of the vote; Prosperous Armenia and Bright Armenia also passed the threshold (5% for parties, 7% for alliances). Turnout was 48.6%.
The page “Changes in the numbers of voters and participants” follows each polling station’s voter list and turnout through four moments: the list published on police.am before the election, the voter numbers reported on election day at 11:00 and at 20:00, and the preliminary results published the next day.
How to read this chart
- Voters, Police.am: the list before the election, total 2,573,779.
- 09/12 11:00 voters (2,592,479) and the column “77 stations: voters added 18,700”.
- 09/12 20:00 voters (2,592,481): 2 stations added 2 more.
- Voters by preliminary results (2,592,616): 86 stations differ from the 20:00 figure, by 135 in total.
- Participants 09/12 and Participants, preliminary results 10/12, and their difference.
- The MIN / MAX fields filter any column; Download and Print export the selection.
What it shows
Most stations have the same number in every column. The shaded difference columns are empty except where something changed.
18,700 voters added on election morning
Between the police.am list and the 11:00 report, the lists of 77 polling stations grew by 18,700 voters. The changes are concentrated in a few places:
How to read this chart
Light part of each bar: voters on the police.am list; dark part: voters added by 11:00 on election day. The label gives both numbers.
What it shows
At 34/76 Aravus the list went from 159 to 1,176 voters; at 35/52 Chakaten from 163 to 1,108; at 35/23 Agarak from 181 to 1,029; at 20/51 Kut from 231 to 1,051. Almost all the stations are villages in Syunik (Goris and Kapan regions), Gegharkunik (Vardenis region) and Tavush.
Hundreds of voters were added to small village lists on the morning of the vote. The site does not say who they were; additions of this kind usually come from supplementary lists, such as those of military units, which by law vote where they are stationed. Whatever their origin, they explain several of the “fastest” stations in the speed analysis.
Participants: published on election night and in the preliminary results
On election night the CEC published 1,260,840 participants; the preliminary results of 10 December gave 1,260,582, and the final protocols 1,260,601. Between the first two, 83 stations gained 435 participants and 91 stations lost 693, a total change of 1,128. The largest: 25/33 Stepanavan 674 → 474 (−200), 08/17 Shengavit 846 → 946 (+100), 08/63 Shengavit and 12/48 Dvin −100 each. Changes of exactly 100 or 200 look like typing errors corrected later.
The page itself notes one such error: at station 02/09 the preliminary data gave 1,953 participants instead of 875, and the table uses the corrected number.
Compared with earlier elections the changes are small: in 2015, 6,000 participants appeared after the polls closed (2015 article). The voter list compared with the population is in voters and turnout, 2018.
Data and sources on this site
From the book
This article is based on Chapter VI of Electoral Rights and Election Falsification by Lyudvig Khachatryan, which explains the full method, the formulas and the cases behind it.