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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)

• 0.32 Percent

  A lot of press in Kazakhstan has been talking about Mels Yeleusizov, the presidential candidate for the Green Party, as if no one had ever heard of him. But in going over my archives, I discovered that Mr. Yeleusizov won 0.32% of the vote in 2005. So he’s not a complete unknown. And according to […]

  4/02/11 • (1)

• Not a Drop to Drink

  Presidential candidate Mels Yeleusizov is calling for Kazakhs to save water. Especially in the south and west, lack of water is a serious problem, particularly potable and clean water. And for some reason conservation of water (or gas or anything else) doesn’t seem to have permeated the culture. On the other hand, the average citizen […]

  4/01/11 • (Comments Off on Not a Drop to Drink)