CEC: Voter Turnout 32.5% at 5pm

14,278 voters, accounting for 32.5% of all registered voters, cast ballot in today’s MP by-elections in Mtatsminda constituency of Tbilisi by 5pm, three hours before the polling stations will close, according to the Central Election Commission (CEC).

Voter turnout was 26.6% (11,669 voters) at 5pm 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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