Voter Turnout by Region
The Central Election Committee already has voter turnout by region up on their site. No big surprises. Total turnout is reported as 89.9%. The lowest turnout was in Almaty at 68.5% but surprisingly Astana, the capital, had the next lowest, with 69.1%. Every oblast except Pavlodar reported over 90%.
And reports are already out that exit polls show Nazarbayev winning with 94.82%. Gani Kasymov came in second with 2.17%. The Communist Party candidate, Zhambyl Akhmetbekov, had 1.57% and Mels Yeleusizov came in last 1.44 percent, according to the poll. It could have been 1.450001 if he had decided to vote for himself. The exit poll was conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Political Scientists of Kazakhstan. Official results are predicted to be coming in before noon today.
If you happen to see precinct-level returns posted anywhere, could you give me a heads up? I’ve been working with Kyrgyzstan’s precinct-level returns to do some election mapping and would be interested in doing similar stuff for Kazakhstan.
I will keep an eye out. I’ve never seen that kind of data before. You could try writing to the Central Election Committee (www.election.kz) and see if they will release it to you.
I’m not holding my breath that it’s going to be readily available; I’m kind of surprised it’s so easy to get for Kyrgyzstan. I have seen some references to it for past elections, so I’ll have to do some digging.
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