2020 Artsakhian general election

2020 Artsakhian general election

Presidential election
← 2017 31 March 2020 (2020-03-31) (first round) 14 April 2020 (2020-04-14) (second round) 2023 →
Turnout	72.47% (first round) 45.01% (second round)
Candidate Arayik Harutyunyan Masis Mayilyan Party Free Motherland Independent Alliance Free Motherland - UCA New Artsakh Alliance Popular vote 39,860 5,428 Percentage 88.01% 11.99%
Second round results by province Harutyunyan:      80–90%      >90%
President before election Bako Sahakyan Independent President-elect Arayik Harutyunyan Free Motherland
Parliamentary election
← 2015 31 March 2020 (2020-03-31)
Turnout	72.45%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Free Motherland - UCA Arayik Harutyunyan 40.80 16 +1 United Motherland Samvel Babayan 24.04 9 New Justice Vitaly Balasanyan 7.98 3 New ARF David Ishkhanyan 6.47 3 −4 Democratic Party Ashot Ghulian 5.86 2 −4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the National Assembly before President of the National Assembly after Ashot Ghulian Democratic Party Arthur Tovmasyan Free Motherland

General elections were held in the Republic of Artsakh on 31 March 2020, with a second round of the presidential election on 14 April. Voters elected the President and 33 members of the National Assembly. It was the first (and only) time the President and National Assembly were elected at the same time.

The Free Motherland - UCA Alliance, United Motherland, Justice, ARF, and the Democratic Party won seats in National Assembly. No party won the majority of seats, which means that coalition talks are likely to be held within parties.^[1]

Presidential candidate Arayik Harutyunyan came first in the first round of the presidential election. A run-off between him and incumbent Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan was held on 14 April 2020. However, Masis Mayilyan made an announcement urging the people of Artsakh not to participate in the second round of elections in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.^[2][3] As a result, the majority of Mayilyan's voters from the first round did not vote, and turnout in the second round declined by nearly 30%. However, a majority of Harutyunyan's voters did return to the polls for the second round, in spite of the call to avoid spreading COVID-19, giving him a wide margin of victory in the second round.