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• 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 […]

  4/04/11 • (Comments Off on Preliminary Results Are In)

• 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 […]

  4/04/11 • (4)

• Elections Media Round Up

  The polls are closing in Kazakhstan’s snap Presidential election. According to Usen Zhetenov of the Central Election Committee voter turnout was around 84% [RU], compared to 74% in 2005 when Nazarbayev won with 91% of the votes. According to Kairat Sazhanov, the Central Election Committee representative in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, turnout abroad was […]

  4/03/11 • (Comments Off on Elections Media Round Up)

• Gani Kasymov 10 Years Ago

  Much as I don’t want to disparage people from voting for any candidate on Sunday, this interview with Gani Kasymov of the Patriot’s Party from 1999, when he was also running for President on KTK is pretty amusing. While Eurasianet hits a lot of the highlights, they missed the moment at 2:28 when the journalist […]

  4/01/11 • (Comments Off on Gani Kasymov 10 Years Ago)