Syunik and Vayots Dzor Provinces: Turnout and Voting Speed at Every Polling Station, 2017–2021
Syunik and Vayots Dzor Provinces: turnout 66.91% in 2017, 55.9% in 2018 and 59.09% in 2021; 6, 1 and 0 stations above physical capacity.
Original page on electionscount.info: Turnout and voting speed table (choose the year with the buttons)Syunik and Vayots Dzor Provinces is one of the 13 electoral districts of the Electoral Code. The charts and tables below use every polling station of the district from the site's turnout tables for the three parliamentary elections.
How to read this chart
Each dot is one polling station in one year: orange 2017, blue 2018, green 2021. Left to right: turnout. Bottom to top: how many seconds per voter per registration table the station needed in its busiest 3 hours, so lower means faster. Dots below the red line voted faster than one table can register people.
What it shows
The only district where very high turnout lasted through all three elections: 43 stations at 75% or more in 2017, 10 in 2018 and 14 in 2021. Yelpin's 36/15 (320 voters in 3 hours on one table, 33.8 seconds) was the fastest station in Armenia in 2017. Rind (2018) and Akner (2021) both show counts that went down; in Akner the 17:00 report was 138 lower than the 14:00 one. Arin's station went from 1,081 voters and 87.6% turnout in 2017 to 235 voters in 2018.
The district in numbers
| Year | Stations | Voters | Turnout | Typical seconds per voter per table | Under 60 s | Above capacity (under 44 s) | Turnout 75%+ (100+ voters) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 206 | 162,451 | 66.91% | 83.4 | 49 | 6 | 43 |
| 2018 | 206 | 161,762 | 55.9% | 101.9 | 25 | 1 | 10 |
| 2021 | 204 | 156,346 | 59.09% | 118.7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
The three fastest stations each year
| Year | Station | Community | Voters | Most in 3 hours | Tables | Seconds per voter per table |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 36/15 | Yelpin | 986 | 320 | 1 | 33.8 |
| 2017 | 34/43 | Aravus | 946 | 291 | 1 | 37.1 |
| 2017 | 35/56 | Kajaran (town) | 1,887 | 573 | 2 | 37.7 |
| 2018 | 34/73 | Karashen | 890 | 314 | 1 | 34.4 |
| 2018 | 34/14 | Khndzoresk | 887 | 238 | 1 | 45.4 |
| 2018 | 36/50 | Jermuk (town) | 855 | 230 | 1 | 47.0 |
| 2021 | 35/57 | Kajaran (town) | 1,891 | 450 | 2 | 48.0 |
| 2021 | 35/55 | Kajaran (town) | 1,637 | 403 | 2 | 53.6 |
| 2021 | 35/37 | Syunik | 876 | 201 | 1 | 53.7 |
To see any of these stations on the site, open the table, choose the year with the buttons 2021, 2018 or 2017, and type the station number.
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.
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.