EXTRA ELECTIONS WERE HELD IN TALIN
By Gohar Gevorgian
AZG Armenian Daily
28/08/2007
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).