Shavkat Mirziyoyev wins Uzbekistan’s presidential elections by 87.05% votes
Shavkat Mirziyoyev wins Uzbekistan’s presidential elections by 87.05% votes, the Central Election
Commission announced. The turnout, according to official data, was the lowest since 2016 – only79.88%.
By IAR Desk
Tashkent: 10 July, 2023:
In the early presidential elections held on July 9, incumbent President Shavkat Mirziyoyev won with 87.05% of the vote.
His candidacy was nominated by the UzLiDeP party and supported by the Milliy Tiklanish party.
The preliminary results of the elections were announced at a briefing in Tashkent by the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Zainiddin Nizamkhojaev.
He announced Shavkat Mirziyoyev, for whom 13 million 625 thousand 55 people voted, was elected president.
“The elections were held on the basis of international norms and standards and national electoral legislation, in full compliance with such democratic principles as openness, transparency, freedom and fairness, and in high spirits,” said the head of the CEC.
Recall that in the elections on December 4, 2016, Shavkat Mirziyoyev had won with 87.73% of the vote, and on October 24, 2021 by 80.12%.
15 million 651 thousand 405 voters took part in the elections, which is 79.88% of the total number of 19 million 593 thousand 838 voters. The highest turnout was in the Jizzakh region – 85.28%. The lowest was in Tashkent – 72.97%.
For comparison, at the referendum on the revised Constitution on April 30, the turnout was 84.5%, at the presidential elections in 2021 – 80.4%, at the presidential elections in 2016 – 87.73%.
Robakhon Makhmudova, nominated by the Social Democratic Party “Adolat” (“Justice”), received 4.43% of the vote – 693 thousand 634 people voted for her.
The candidate from the People’s Democratic Party and its leader Ulugbek Inoyatov won 4.02% of the vote – 629 thousand 116 people.
The candidate from the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan Abdushukur Khamzaev won 3.74% of the vote – 585 thousand 711 people.
The number of spoiled ballots was 0.78%.
According to the Constitution, updated following the results of the April referendum, the term of office of the president is now seven years (previously five years).
