Ratings Of Politicians

RATINGS OF POLITICIANS

Lragir.am
24 June 06

Electoral Systems Center released the ratings for the political
figures of Armenia, given by the online poll. The voting was held
in 2006 three rounds: from February 20 to April 20, from April 20 to
May 20, and from May 20 to June 20.

In the first period (February-April) 688 people participated. Tigran
Karapetyan was the most popular politician with 192 voted. Andranik
Margaryan was the second, 103 people voted for him. Aram Zaveni
Sargsyan was the third with 58 votes. Raffi Hovannisian was the
fourth with 51 votes and Arthur Baghdasaryan was the fifth with 44
votes. The rating for Victor Dallakyan was 32, Gagik Tsarukyan 28,
Shavarsh Kocharyan 21, Gurgen Arsenyan 21, Artashes Geghamyan 19,
Serge Sargsyan 15, Vahan Hovanisyan 15, Stepan Demirchyan 10. 58
people did not sympathize with anyone.

The voting results from April 20 to May 20 did not suggest essential
changes in the leading five. Places were exchanged, and the number
of participants changed. 936 people voted to the second round. Raffi
Hovanisyan was the most popular politicians with 222 votes, Tigran
Karapetyan descended to the second place with 193 votes. Andranik
Margaryan was the third with 115 votes, Arthur Baghdasaryan was the
fourth with 86 votes, and Aram Zaveni Sargsyan was the fifth with 59
votes. The succession of the other political figures did not change.
68 people did not sympathize with anyone.

Finally, 9218 people voted in the third round. In the first five,
Aram Zaveni Sargsyan was replaced by Gagik Tsarukyan with 501 votes.
The other four did not change, but the ratings changed. Arthur
Baghdasaryan is the most popular politician with 2671. Tigran
Karapetyan is the second with 2536 votes, Raffi Hovannisian is the
third with 1590 votes, and Andranik Margaryan is the fourth with 1201
votes. Only 83 people voted against everyone.

Presenting the ratings of political figures for these three periods,
the Electoral Systems Center informs that it will conduct online
polls every month and publish the results at the end of each month.