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Putin obtains majority of votes during the voting in Armenia

Putin obtains majority of votes during the voting in Armenia

5 March 2012

According to the data as of March 5 morning, 83.4% of voters, or 2960 people voted for the incumbent Premier of Russia Vladimir Putin, the presidential candidate from Yedinaya Rossia Party, at the constituency N5015 at the Russian Embassy in Yerevan.

The press service of the Embassy told ArmInfo that Mikhail Prokhorov, self-nominated candidate, obtained 6.9% of votes (244 voters), Gennady Zyuganov, Leader of the Communist Party held the third place with 5.6%, or 198 votes. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Leader of LDPR, and Sergey Mironov, Leader of Spravedlivaya Rossia Party obtained 3.2% (115 votes) and 0.8% (30 votes) respectively.

According to the results of handling of 99.07% of the protocols, Vladimir Putin has 63.81% of votes, Gennady Zyuganov, Leader of the Communist Party - 17.19%, Mikhail Prokhorov, self-nominated candidate - 7.78%, the Central Electoral Commission says. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Leader of LDPR obtained 6.23% of votes, Sergey Mironov, Leader of Spravedlivaya Rossia Party - 3.84%. In absolute terms, Putin obtained more than 44.9 mln votes, Zyuganov - over 12.1 mln, Prokhorov - over 5.4 mln, Zhirinovsky - over 4.3 mln, Mironov - more than 2.7 mln.

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