Armenia's Central Election Commission has cancelled the voting results at two polling stations.

Voting results at two polling stations in Armenia have been annulled by the Central Election Commission. As a result, the Prosperous Armenia party lost 213 votes.

As reported by the Caucasian Knot, the Civil Contract party, led by current Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, won the parliamentary elections, garnering 49.81% of the vote. Pashinyan's party's victory in the parliamentary elections portrayed the Kremlin as the loser, noted Russian political scientists interviewed by the Caucasian Knot. The opposition parties Prosperous Armenia and Wings of Unity, as well as the Armenia bloc, demanded that the election commission recount the votes at 555 polling stations, and Strong Armenia demanded that the results at one of the polling stations be annulled. As a result of the recount, 140 votes were added to Prosperous Armenia's result.

At an extraordinary meeting on June 11, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia invalidated the results of the June 7 vote at polling stations No. 10/51 and No. 35/65. One of these polling stations is located in Yerevan, the second in the city of Agarak (Meghri community in the Syunik region).

The basis for the cancellation was data on violations recorded in the registration logs of precinct election commissions on election day, the press service of the Central Election Commission reported. CEC Chairman Vahagn Hovakimyan stated that such violations could have influenced the voting results. Materials regarding these violations have been sent to the prosecutor's office, according to Novosti Armenia.

A large number of military personnel were brought to polling station 35/65 in Agarak after the official voting time had ended and continued voting even after the polling stations officially closed. The results of the voting at one of the Yerevan polling stations were annulled for a similar reason.

According to the Akanates observation mission, approximately 480 military personnel were allowed to vote at the Syunik polling station after 8:00 PM. Strong Armenia representative Lusine Avagyan wrote in the registration log that "the commission chairperson refused to close the polling station door" even at 8:44 p.m., News.am reports.

"At 8:55 p.m., I barely made it from the entrance to the polling station building to the polling station room; the corridor was filled with soldiers," Hovakimyan read from the log at the CEC meeting.

Prosperous Armenia intends to appeal the CEC decision

The annulment of the voting results at two polling stations deprived the Prosperous Armenia party of 213 votes. According to party candidate Gevorg Stepanyan, 131 people voted for his political party at polling station 10/51, and the party received 82 votes at polling station 35/65.

Stepanyan stated that after such a decision, "there can be no talk of fair and transparent elections." Lawyer Ruben Melikyan, in turn, claims that the Central Election Commission's decision allowed the "stealing of five mandates" from Prosperous Armenia.

On June 12, Prosperous Armenia will appeal the CEC's decision to annul the election results at two polling stations, party spokesperson Iveta Tonoyan announced. She called the commission's actions "arbitrary" and "disgraceful," Armenia Today reports.

According to Tonoyan, the voting results were annulled "precisely at those polling stations" where Prosperous Armenia received a large number of votes.

"This disgrace, committed in the middle of the night, under cover of darkness, secretly, was a direct blow to the PAP, the goal of which was to prevent the PAP from entering the National Assembly by any means possible," Novosti Armenia quotes her as saying.

The parliamentary elections effectively became a referendum on the future of the current government and Armenia's foreign policy. The "Caucasian Knot" published a report titled "2026 Elections to the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia".