Georgia – Local elections

In Georgia the first round of local elections were held on 30 May. The Central Election Commission is reporting the following results of the total nationwide vote:

United National Movement – 65.5%
Alliance for Georgia (I. Alasania, S. Subari, D. Usupashvili, D. Gamkrelidze, S. Zourabichvili) – 9.1%
Giorgi Targamadze, Inga Grigolia – Christian Democratic Union – 11.9%
National Council – 6.9%
Topadze – Industrialists – 4.2%

The big contest was in Tbilisi:

United National Movement – 52.49%
Alliance for Georgia – 17.98%
Christian Democratic Union – 12.05%
National Council – 8.26%
Industrialists – 6.23%
No other candidate won more than 1 per cent of the vote.

RFE/RL reports that Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) declared that the election was “transparent” and marked “evident progress towards meeting international standards”, although there were “significant shortcomings remain to be addressed”.

So, the bottom line seems to be that the opposition did not do as well as it had hoped and that the elections were fair enough for them to have been able to do so if they had gained enough support.

There is a nice graphic relating to all the elections here.

 

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