The participation rate in Algeria's elections reached 44.38% nationally (Ould Kablia)

Vendredi 11 Mai 2012

Voter turnout in parliamentary elections has reached 44.38% nationally, the Minister of Interior and Local Government, Mr. Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday in Algiers. .
The participation rate in Algeria's elections reached 44.38% nationally (Ould Kablia)
The turnout at the national level has reached 44.38%, while the rate of participation of the national community abroad  reached 14%.

The minister said that among 20,673,878 registered on the national territory, the number of voters reached 9,174,492, a rate of 44.38% against 36.51% in 2007.

With regard to the national community abroad,  138,694  voted  out of  990,470  registered  to vote on electoral lists, a rate of 14%.

Thus, a total electorate of 21,664,348, the number of voters reached 9,313,186, representing a turnout of 42.90%.

The minister added that the turnout exceeded 50% in 19 wilayas, while the highest rate was recorded in the wilaya of Tindouf with 83.15%. All wilayas in the  South of the country experienced a turnout that exceeded 60%. Algiers wilaya recorded, meanwhile, a rate of 30.95%, followed by Bejaia and Tizi-Ouzou with respectively 25.11% and 19.84%.




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