11,539 voters, accounting for 26.3% of all registered voters, cast ballot in today’s MP by-elections in Mtatsminda constituency of Tbilisi by 3pm, seven hours after the polling stations were opened, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).
Voter turnout was 21% (9,226 voters) at 3pm in the first round of by-elections on May 19.
A total of 43,909 voters are eligible to cast their ballots in 31 polling stations in today’s runoff.
They will go to the polls to vote between the wo main contenders – Vladimer Kakhadze (Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia) and Shalva Shavgulidze (European Georgia-Free Democrats) – who finished with 41.01% and 36.84%, respectively.
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