35.5% voter turnout as of noon - Kazakh CEC
13:58, 15 January 2012
ASTANA. January 15. KAZINFORM /Askar Bimendin/ More than 3 million 185 thousand voters or 35.5% of the electorate have cast their votes in the Kazakh parliamentary elections by noon, member of Kazakh Central Election Commission Ussen Zhetenov told a briefing on voter turnout.
According to him, voter turnout in Akmola region is 44.7%, Aktobe region - 31.1%, Almaty region - 57.1%, Atyrau region - 45.1%, East Kazakhstan region - 43.5%, Zhambyl region - 38%, West Kazakhstan region - 22.1%, Karaganda region - 31.4%, Kostanay region - 56.2%, Kyzylorda region - 55.6%, Mangystau region - 23.3%, Pavlodar region - 33.3%, North Kazakhstan region - 47.3%, South Kazakhstan region - 19.4%, Almaty - 6.4%, Astana - 10.9%.