Over 6 mln voted for amendments to Constitution of Kazakhstan

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM «77.18% of the citizens of Kazakhstan cast their votes for the amendments to the Constitution of Kazakhstan,» head of the Central Referendum Commission Nurlan Abdirov said.

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According to the preliminary results, the number of citizens of Kazakhstan eligible to vote in the referendum made 11,734,642. Of which 7,986,293 representing 68.06% of the population eligible to vote in the referendum cast their votes. He noted that the referendum may be regarded as successful.

As reported earlier, 77.18% or 6,163,863 of the citizens of Kazakhstan voted for the amendments, while 18.66% or 1,490,475 cast negative votes, 2.58% of ballots were annulled, and 1.58% of ballots were not taken into account.