As of 17:00, 69.93 percent of voters, 3,716,135 persons cast their ballots in Azerbaijan's presidential election, announced Farid Orujov, head of the Election Information Center of Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission (CEC).

A total of 5,314,365 people in Azerbaijan have the right to vote.

Eight candidates were registered at the presidential election. Six candidates of them were nominated from political parties, one was a self-nominee and one candidate was nominated from the Initiative Group.

The Election Information Center of the CEC Secretariat will provide further information on the voting process and participation of voters in the election at 19:00.

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The Central Election Commission (CEC) updated information on voter turnout as of 15:00 in the voting at today's presidential elections in Azerbaijan.

Kanal24 informs, Farid Orujov, the Head of Elections information center under CEC Secretariat said that since the moment of commencement of the voting i.e. since 08:00 a.m. till 15:00 p.m., 3 million 227 thousand 817 voters (60.74% of all voters) from total 5 million 314 thousand 365 voters of the country took part in the voting.