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Elections in South Ossetia gives information on elections and election results in South Ossetia.
South Ossetia elects on national level a head of state - the President - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Parliament of South Ossetia has 34 members, elected for a five-year term using party-list proportional representation.
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Main article: 2022 South Ossetian presidential election |
On April 10, 2022, incumbent President Anatoly Bibilov lost the first round of the presidential election to Alan Gagloyev, who received most votes.[1][2] As none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote, a requirement to win the presidency, a second round was called between Bibilov and Gagloyev. The three eliminated candidates declared their support for Gagloyev for the second round, which was scheduled for May 8, 2022, after initial confusion over its date.[3] Gagloyev won this round with 56.2% of the vote. The Election Commission set the transfer of power on May 24, 2022.[4]
According to local experts, Bibilov's defeat after an easy victory in 2017 can be explained by the number of scandals and abuse of power accusations that took place in recent years. There was for example the scandal of the prison death, which caused civil unrest and a paralyzed parliament.[5]
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Alan Gagloyev | Nykhaz | 10,707 | 38.55 | 16,134 | 56.08 | |
| Anatoly Bibilov | United Ossetia | 9,706 | 34.95 | 11,767 | 40.90 | |
| Aleksandr Pliyev | People's Party | 3,434 | 12.37 | |||
| Garry Muldarov | Independent | 2,592 | 9.33 | |||
| Dmitry Tasoyev | Independent | 822 | 2.96 | |||
| None of the above | 510 | 1.84 | 867 | 3.01 | ||
| Total | 27,771 | 100.00 | 28,768 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 27,771 | 95.57 | 28,768 | 97.77 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,286 | 4.43 | 655 | 2.23 | ||
| Total votes | 29,057 | 100.00 | 29,423 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 39,282 | 73.97 | 39,798 | 73.93 | ||
| Source: Central Electoral Commission, Final results CEC, Protocol CEC | ||||||
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Main article: 2019 South Ossetian parliamentary election |
| Party | Proportional | FPTP | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
| United Ossetia | 7,778 | 34.96 | 7 | 7 | 14 | –6 | |||
| People's Party of South Ossetia | 4,849 | 21.79 | 4 | 1 | 5 | +1 | |||
| Nykhaz | 3,198 | 14.37 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Unity of the People | 2,883 | 12.96 | 2 | 1 | 3 | –3 | |||
| Communist Party of South Ossetia | 1,622 | 7.29 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | |||
| Socialist Party "Fatherland" | 711 | 3.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Unity Party | 630 | 2.83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Independents | 6 | 6 | +6 | ||||||
| Against all | 578 | 2.60 | – | – | – | ||||
| Total | 22,249 | 100.00 | 17 | 17 | 34 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 19,497 | 94.94 | |||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,040 | 5.06 | |||||||
| Total votes | 20,537 | 100.00 | |||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 34,344 | 59.80 | |||||||
| Source: CIKRUO (dead), RES Agency,[6] OC Media[7] | |||||||||
