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16 Nov. 2020 / 11:48

How Moldovans voted in Moldova and overseas

The PAS candidate Maia Sandu won the presidential elections in Moldova, according to the preliminary results. After 100% of the minutes were processed, the PAS leader leads with 57.75% of the votes, while the incumbent president, Igor Dodon scored 42.25%, Moldova 1 reports.

943,486 people voted for Maia Sandu, and 690,139 voted for her opponent, Igor Dodon. In Chisinau, the PAS candidate ranks first, with 59.7% of the votes. Igor Dodon gained 40.3% of votes.

Maia Sandu scored the most votes in districts in the center of Moldova, such as Straseni, Hincesti, Orhei, Nisporeni, Ialoveni, Criuleni, where she got 70 percent of the votes, and Igor Dodon got the vote of the inhabitants of Gagauz autonomy and  by voters in the northern districts of Moldova, including Balti.

According to preliminary data, in those 42 polling stations open to voters in the Transnistrian region, the independent candidate accumulated 85.8% of the vote, and the PAS candidate - 14.2%.

The elected president, Maia Sandu, enjoyed the support of the diaspora. She got about 93 percent of the vote from overseas voters, while incumbent President Igor Dodon garnered just over 7 percent of the vote.

1.6 million voters participated in the second round of presidential elections. The most active were people aged between 56 and 70, about 31 percent of the total number of those who went to the polls, and the most passive - young people, only eight percent of youth voted yesterday.

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