By the end of the voting day, more than 6 million voters were registered in Belarus

By the end of the voting day, 6.9 million voters were registered in Belarus. This was reported by Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Belarus Igor Karpenko during a briefing on January 26.

"At 8 p.m. the polling stations all closed and received operational information on the number of voters who received ballots from those on the lists. The total number of those included in the lists across the country has been slightly raised. This is 6,903,994 people," he announced.

Karpenko also informed that in Brest voblast 90.56% of the population took part in the voting, in Vitsebsk voblast - 86.39%, in Homel voblast - 91.54%, in Hrodna voblast - 89.28%, in Minsk voblast - 86.71%, in Mahiliou voblast - 92.64%, the city of Minsk - 69.7%. Thus, the percentage of voters who received ballots nationwide amounted to 85.7%.

"Now the counting of votes is underway. We will receive operational information from all the polling stations, which will be accumulated by district commissions, transferred to the regional commissions. Well tentatively... (...) somewhere 2:30 in the morning (coincides with Moscow time) we plan to give preliminary results on the voting results," he commented.

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Polling stations for the main voting in the presidential election in Belarus opened throughout the country on January 26 at 8:00. The turnout at 12:00 was 56.64%, so they can be recognized as valid. At 20:00 the voting ended. The CEC noted that over 6.9 million citizens had the opportunity to vote at more than 5.3 thousand polling stations. As of 18:00 Moscow time, the voter turnout amounted to 81.5%. Of these, 41.81% voted early in the period from January 21 to 25.