According to our schedule, the sorting and counting of votes was completed smoothly at all polling stations in Cyprus and abroad.
The official final results are as follows:
The total number of voters is 404.321 out of a total of 561,273 registered voters, i.e. 72.04%.
The abstention rate was 27.96%, corresponding to 156,952 voters, the number of invalid ballots was 5,333 or 1.32% and the number of blank ballots was 1,671 or 0.41%.
Consequently, valid ballots amounted to 397,317 or 98.27%.
For comparison purposes, I would like to mention that in the first round of the 2018 Presidential Elections, the turnout rate was 71.88%. That is, there was an increase of 0.16 percentage points.
They received in order, as the candidates are presented on the ballot:
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CANDIDATES |
[TD]
VOTERS
[/TD] [TD]VOTERS
[/TD][TR] [TD]
Averof Neophytou
[/TD] [TD]103.748
[/TD] [TD]26.11%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Christos Christou
[/TD] [TD]23.988
[/TD] [TD]6.04%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Julia Hovrina Komnenos
[/TD] [TD]330
[/TD] [TD]0,08%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Haralambos Aristotelous
[/TD] [TD]866
[/TD] [TD]0.22%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Achilleas Dimitriades
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]8.137
[/TD] [TD]2.05%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Andreas Efstratiou
[/TD] [TD]299
[/TD] [TD]0,08%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Andronikos Zervidis
[/TD] [TD]341
[/TD] [TD]0.09%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Giorgos Kolokasidis
[/TD] [TD]5.287
[/TD] [TD]1.33%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Andreas Mavrogiannis
[/TD] [TD]117.551
[/TD] [TD]29.59%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Celestina De Petro
[/TD] [TD]575
[/TD] [TD]0.14%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Alexios Savvidis
[/TD] [TD]2.395
[/TD] [TD]0.6%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Loukas Stavrou
[/TD] [TD]165
[/TD] [TD]0.04%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Nikos Christodoulides
[/TD] [TD]127.309
[/TD] [TD]32.04%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Konstantinos Christofidis
[/TD] [TD]6.326
[/TD] [TD]1.59%
[/TD] [/TR]
Based on this result, a run-off election will be held next Sunday, 12 February 2023, between Mr. Andreas Mavroyiannis and Nikos Christodoulides.
Already, I have asked the Director of the Government Printing Office to start printing the ballot papers for the by-election.
I want to express my sincere thanks to the Assistant Chief Electoral Officer, the Electoral Officers, my colleagues in the Ministry of Interior, the Officers of the Press and Information Office, the thousands of presiding officers and assistants in the 1.148 polling stations in Cyprus and abroad, as well as all the public officials and members of the Police Force, who carried out, in an impeccable manner, the task assigned to them.
Similarly, I expect a high level of work from all of them during the repeat voting next Sunday.
Finally, I thank all media representatives for their cooperation, as well as all voters for the level of political culture they have shown today.
(EFF/MX/EP/SX/NG)
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