Preliminary Results Are In
It’s Nazarbayev with 95.5% of the vote
Gani Kasymov 1.9%
Zhambyl Akhmetbekov 1.4%
Mels Yeleusizova 1.2%
If you remember, exit polls had Nazarbayev with 95% and the others with 2.1%, 1.57%, and 1.44%, which has to be one of the most accurate exit polls ever.
Official results will apparently be ready on the 9th of April, as dictated by law. No idea where the press was getting the idea that the 12th was the deadline for official results. That’ll teach me not to go to the source.
If you’re looking for a really good summary of how the election process works and how it went yesterday, the OSCE International Observation report released earlier today is a good start.