2015 Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary election

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All 33 seats in the National Assembly
17 seats needed for a majority

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
Free Motherland	Arayik Harutyunyan	47.35	15	+1
Democratic Party	Ashot Ghulian	19.02	6	0
ARF	Artur Aghabekyan	18.81	7	+1
Movement 88	Vitaly Balasanyan	6.93	2	New
National Revival	Hayk Khanumyan	5.38	1	New
Independents	–	–	2	−5

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before	Elected Prime Minister
Arayik Harutyunyan Free Motherland	Arayik Harutyunyan Free Motherland

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Parliamentary elections were held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on 3 May 2015.^[1]

Background

Nagorno-Karabakh declared its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991. The First Nagorno-Karabakh War took place between 1988 and 1994 which resulted in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Armenian support, becoming de facto independent from Azerbaijan. However it has not been internationally recognised and Azerbaijan still claims the area as part of its state.^[2]

Conduct

More than 100 representatives from 30 countries observed the elections.^[3]

Results


Party		Proportional			Constituency			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	Free Motherland	32,632	47.35	11			4	15	+1
	Democratic Party of Artsakh	13,105	19.02	4			2	6	0
	Armenian Revolutionary Federation	12,965	18.81	4			3	7	+1
	Movement 88	4,778	6.93	2			0	2	New
	National Revival	3,709	5.38	1			0	1	New
	Communist Party of Artsakh	1,136	1.65	0			0	0	0
	Peace and Development	591	0.86	0			0	0	0
	Independents						2	2	–5
Total		68,916	100.00	22			11	33	0

Valid votes		68,916	95.32		65,599	93.94
Invalid/blank votes		3,380	4.68		4,232	6.06
Total votes		72,296	100.00		69,831	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		102,042	70.85		98,920	70.59
Source: CEC, CEC, Caucasian Knot

Reactions

Azerbaijan, the European Union, the United States and Turkey all said that they did not recognise the elections.^[4]^[1]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b West and Azerbaijan denounce Nagorno-Karabakh ‘elections’ EurActive, 4 May 2015
^ "Karabakh holds disputed elections". BBC Online. 19 June 2005. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
^ "Election season for the civil society in the unrecognised republics of Caucasus". fpc.org.uk. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
^ Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry: so-called elections in Nagorno-Karabakh can’t have any legal status AzerTag, 5 May 2015
^ Turkey says May 3 elections in Nagorno-Karabakh violate int’l law Archived 3 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Today's Zaman, 1 May 2015

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