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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 […]

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• 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)