Results of parallel vote tabulation (PVT) of proportional, party-list vote in the October 8 parliamentary elections, conducted by a monitoring group, largely coincide with the early official results.

PVT, during which observers from election monitoring group count votes at the polling stations simultaneously with precinct election officials, was conducted by International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), Georgia’s largest election monitoring non-governmental organization. PVT is one of the tools to verify the accuracy of the official election results.

According to its PVT results, GDDG ruling party is garnering 49.1% of votes and UNM opposition party – 26.8%.

PVT’s margin of error in case of these two parties is plus, minus 0.9%.

ISFED was not able to conclusively define whether the election bloc, led by the Alliance of Patriots, is clearing or not 5% threshold required for winning seats in the Parliament under the nationwide proportional, party-list vote.  

According to PVT, Alliance of Patriots is garnering 4.9% of votes, but its margin of error is plus, minus 0.3%.

With returns from over 66% of precincts, early official results give GDDG ruling party 49.75% of votes; UNM – 26.72%, and Alliance of Patriots – 4.91%.

ISFED also said that during the vote tabulation process, there were “significant violations, including violent ones, at several polling stations.”

But these were “isolated” cases, ISFED said, which cannot have any substantial impact on the results of the proportional, party-list vote.

The monitoring group also said that the vote count process was carried out without violations at 97.9% of polling stations.