Announcement of Preliminary Results

(1) Prior to receiving the voting results from all subordinate electoral councils and bureaus, the election body responsible for tabulation shall periodically announce the preliminary results as soon as possible after their receipt. In parliamentary, presidential and general local elections, the preliminary results, detailed per polling stations, shall be posted on the official website of the Central Electoral Commission as soon as they are processed.

(2) The election body responsible for tabulation shall make public the overall election results as soon as possible once all the voting results have been received from the subordinate electoral councils and bureaus, only if the complaints submitted to it or to Courts do not affect the election results.

(3) Responsible for tabulating the final results of elections shall be:

a) the Central Electoral Commission – for parliamentary elections, presidential elections, general local elections and republican referenda; or

b) the appropriate District Electoral Council – for local elections and local referenda.