Armenia 2018: Turnout and Voting Speed at All 2,010 Polling Stations
In the snap election of December 2018 turnout fell to 48.63% and the speeds relaxed.
Original page on electionscount.info: Turnout and voting speed table, 2018On 9 December 2018, 2,010 polling stations had 2,592,479 registered voters and 1,260,840 participants, a turnout of 48.63%. By 3-hour window: 201,250 voted before 11:00, 434,805 between 11:00 and 14:00, 388,947 between 14:00 and 17:00 and 235,838 after 17:00.
In the snap election of December 2018 turnout fell to 48.63% and the speeds relaxed: only 3 stations registered voters faster than the limit, all small villages with one table, and the typical station took about 81 seconds per voter per table in its busiest hours, against 67 in 2017. The morning was unusually quiet: only 16% of voters came before 11:00, a December morning.
How to read this chart
Each bar counts the polling stations whose busiest 3 hours fell in a 10-second range. Left = fast, right = slow. The red line is the 44-second limit for one registration table.
What it shows
135 stations were faster than 60 seconds and 3 faster than 44. The bulk of stations sits well to the right of the line.
Stations above physical capacity
| Station | Community | Voters | Turnout | Most in 3 hours | Tables | Seconds per voter per table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20/52 | Azat | 776 | 87.11% | 322 | 1 | 33.5 |
| 34/73 | Karashen | 890 | 78.65% | 314 | 1 | 34.4 |
| 20/54 | Norabak | 694 | 78.53% | 270 | 1 | 40.0 |
Counts that went down
At 4 stations a later report showed fewer voters than an earlier one: 23/18 Vanadzor (town) (76, 135, 381, -182); 25/18 Dzoramut (39, 59, 90, -20); 36/13 Rind (66, 302, 457, -166); 37/27 Berkaber (53, 115, 161, -61). The four numbers are the voters in each 3-hour window; a negative number is impossible in a real count. See all such cases.
The capacity rule used here. Registering one voter at one table, checking the ID and handing out the ballot and envelope takes at least about 44 seconds. The Electoral Code (Article 64) gives each polling station at least one registration member per 1,000 voters, so a station with up to 1,000 voters is counted as having one table, up to 2,000 voters two tables. The "seconds per voter per table" figure is the station's fastest 3-hour average multiplied by its number of tables. Below 44 seconds, the reported turnout is faster than the station could physically register people.
Original turnout reports for 2018, as downloaded from elections.am: 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00.
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.