The preliminary results released by Central Election Commission on 26 October put the Georgian Dream Party in the lead with 52.99% compared to a total of 38.4% by opposition parties who crossed the 5% threshold.
The preliminary results, which are based on 2,206 polling stations (which is 97% of the precincts who voted electronically) and 90% of all polling stations, show Georgian Dream to be the winner.
Preliminary results show that while all major opposition coalitions who had signed the President’s Georgian Charter exceeded the threshold, their combined total is below 40%. The Coalition for Change, a coalition of Ahali, Girchi More Freedom and Droa, was the most popular among the opposition, with 11.2%. The Unity to Save Georgia, led by United National Movement (the former ruling party), finished with 9.8%. The Strong Georgia coalition led Lelo For Georgia, with 9.2%, and For Georgia, led by the ex-Prime minister Giorgi Gakharia (with 8.2%) are the next two parties. The other parties did not cross the threshold.
The preliminary results of the study are as follows
The CEC will count the votes of the remaining 3 percent of electronic precincts, as well as those of more than 10 percent of voters who voted in traditional voting abroad or in Georgia’s remote mountainous regions. The final official results will be available in the morning of October 27 after all ballots have been counted manually, both in electronic precincts and non-electronic ones.
394,547 Georgians (11.24%) were eligible to vote using the traditional, non-electronic process. 95,910 of these voters were registered abroad. The rest were registered at remote, mountainous or smaller precincts, where it was not convenient to install new technology. Images of long lines of emigrant voters at overseas voting stations have been shared on social media. It is not known how many of these people voted.
Three different exit polls had shown highly contradictory results earlier, which led both the ruling and opposition parties to celebrate their victories.
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