Turnout and Voting Speed at Every Polling Station, 2017–2021: How to Use the Table
One table, three elections, 2,000 polling stations: how many people voted in each 3-hour window and how fast that was. Here is how to read it and check it yourself.
Original page on electionscount.info: Turnout and voting speed at polling stations, 2017, 2018, 2021
How to read this chart
At the top, "Choose the year by clicking a button": the buttons 2021, 2018 and 2017 switch the table between the three parliamentary elections, so you can compare the same polling station across years.
Below are filters: pick a territorial commission, type a station number or a community, or enter MIN and MAX limits above any column to keep only the stations inside them.
What it shows
Each row is one polling station. The columns are:
- Voters at 20:00 and participants 8:00–20:00, and the station's turnout %;
- for each window, 8:00–11:00, 11:00–14:00, 14:00–17:00, 17:00–20:00: the number of people who voted and the average seconds per voter (10,800 seconds divided by that number);
- most voters in any 3 hours and the fastest time per voter in those hours;
- the community.
The buttons above the table download it as Excel or print it.
Where the numbers come from
On election day the Central Electoral Commission publishes, on elections.am, the turnout of every polling station at 11:00, 14:00, 17:00 and 20:00. The monitoring team downloaded each report at that hour and kept the files, because the site later shows only final results. The differences between consecutive reports give the number of voters in each 3-hour window. The original files are on the site:
Three questions the table answers
- Was the voting physically possible? Enter 0 as MIN and, for example, 44 as MAX in a speed column to see the stations that registered voters faster than one table can. Remember to allow for the station's size: see the rule below.
- Did the count ever go down? A negative number in a window means a later report showed fewer voters than an earlier one, which cannot happen in a real count.
- Did a station change between elections? Switch years with the buttons and type the station number: you can compare its voters, turnout and speed in 2017, 2018 and 2021.
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.
The articles built on this table
The analysis section has an article for each year (2017, 2018, 2021), a comparison, the cases where turnout went down, the highest-turnout stations, and one article for each of the 13 electoral districts.
The totals in the header of the 2021 table are 2,593,572 voters and 1,281,174 participants (49.40%): 316,291 voted before 11:00, 379,335 between 11:00 and 14:00, 294,346 between 14:00 and 17:00 and 291,202 after 17:00.
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.