Kazakhstan’s incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is winning the June 9 presidential election with 70.76% of the votes, Konstantin Petrov, deputy chairman of the country’s Central Elections Commission (CEC), said on Monday, citing a tentative election outcome.
“Kassym-Jomart Kemelovich Tokayev has received 6.5 million votes, or 70.76 percent on the basis of the tentative data from the protocols submitted by territorial commissions, the regions, the cities of Shymkent, Almaty and the city of Nur-Sultan, the capital of out republic,” Petrov told a meeting of the CEC in Nur-Sultan on June 10.
Tokayev was nominated for president by Kazakhstan’s ruling party Nur Otan, which is led by Kazakhstan’s first president and Leader of the Nation Nursultan Nazarbayev.
According to the CEC, Tokayev is followed by journalist Amirzhan Kosanov, who was nominated by the national-patriotic movement Ult Tagdyry (Fate of the Nation).
“Amirzhan Kosanov has received 1.47 million, or 16.02 percent of the votes,” Petrov said at a CEC meeting in Nur-Sultan on Monday.
The other votes were distributed as follows:
Dania Yespayeva of the democratic party Ak Zhol received 478,153 of the votes, or 5.2 percent. Toleutai Rakhimbekov, a candidate of the people’s democratic patriotic party Auyl, received 294,271 of the votes, or 3.2 percent. Amangeldy Taspikhov of the Kazakh Federation of Trade Unions received 190,304 of the votes, or 2.07 percent.
The last candidate on the list is Zhambyl Akhmetbekov, a candidate from the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, who received 167,249 of the votes, or 1.82 percent.
According to the tentative information possessed by the CEC, the voter turnout in the election was 77.4 percent.
