YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, NOYAN TAPAN. According to the preliminary results, National Unity party member Ara Simonian won NA deputy's by-elections by majority system held on January 10 at Yerevan electoral district N 10. 7 622 voters voted for him. The other two candidates, non-partisan, Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper's editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinian and Chairman of the Marxist Party of Armenia David Hakobian received 5 023 and 299 votes, respectively. According to the data published by the Central Electoral Commission, 13 380 of the total number of electoral district's 55 851 voters took part in the voting. 438 ballot-papers were invalidated. The number of inaccuracies is 8. It should be mentioned that the deputy powers of Khachatur Sukiasian elected in the 2007 parliamentary elections from electoral district N 10 were stopped ahead of the schedule on the basis of his application on resignation.

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