POWER CANDIDATE WON AT EXTRA ELECTION TO PARLIAMENT IN 15TH DISTRICT
arminfo
2007-08-27 09:11:00
According to the preliminary data of the district election committee,
a candidate from the Republican party of Armenia Khachik Manukyan
won at yesterday’s extra election to the Armenian Parliament in the
15th district.
As spokeswoman of RA CEC Tatevik Ohanyan told ArmInfo, 36394 people
out of 60138 came to the polling stations. Thus, attendance at extra
election made up 60,5%. Total of 16121 people voted for K. Manukyan. He
is followed by non-party candidate, supported by ‘Prosperous Armenia’
party, Mayor of Talin town Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan, who gathered 10067
votes, a representative of ARF Dashnaktsutiun Gourgen Shahinyan – 7248
votes. Leader of the oppositional ‘Heritage’ party Raffi Hovanissian
took the fourth place, having gathered 1120 votes. He is followed by
independent candidates Emin Karapetyan (518 votes) and Vahagn Petrosyan
(96 votes).