Polling in soums completes

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Candidates from the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) to the khurals citizens’ representatives of soums (rural administrative units) are dominating by winning in 215 soums, while the candidates from the Democratic Party (DP) have attained the majority of votes in 87 soums. Mongolia has a total of 331 soums. The preliminary results of the polling was announced today by the General Election Committee. The additional polling ended on October 23, with the final voter turnout of 63.2 percent on average for 21 provinces and 60.1 percent on the national level. Coalitions of DP and the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) claimed victory in 11 soums of Tov (Central) provinces, while the independent candidates secured seats in the citizens’ khurals of nine soums of Dundgovi province.