The Central Election Commission (CEC) said Civil Contract garnered 49.8 percent of the vote, enough to extend Pashinian’s eight-year rule. Billionaire Samvel Karapetian’s Strong Armenia bloc came in a distant second with 23.3 percent, followed by former President Robert Kocharian’s Hayastan alliance (almost 10 percent) and businessman Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (just under 4 percent).
The 14 other parties running in the elections also failed to clear the 4 percent legal threshold for winning seats in the Armenian parliament. The combined 17 percent of votes polled by them and Prosperous Armenia (BHK) will be proportionally distributed, in the form of bonus seats, among the three groups that will be represented in the new National Assembly. Civil Contract will get most of those seats and thus retain its parliamentary majority.
Strong Armenia rejected the official vote tally as fraudulent. A spokeswoman for Karapetian’s bloc, Marianna Ghahramanian, accused the authorities of illegally forcing many public sector employees across the country to vote for Civil Contract and alleged many other irregularities on election day.
“In these circumstances, the published figures cannot reflect the real picture,” she wrote on Facebook.
“Strong Armenia’s campaign headquarters is currently busy analyzing the situation and clarifying the true picture of voters' expression of will, after which we will present our position and further steps,” added Ghahramanian.
Hayastan also brushed aside the official results, with Kocharian saying that they were seriously affected by “widespread government pressure, arrests of oppositionists, unprecedented use of administrative resources, and electoral violations.”
“We will challenge the election results,” the ex-president said in a statement. “We are currently discussing further steps with our partners in the opposition camp.”
Armenia - Members of an electoral commission count votes after polling stations closed in a parliamentary election Yerevan, June 7, 2026.
It was thus not clear whether Strong Armenia and Hayastan will take up their seats in the new parliament and/or challenge the official results in the streets.
The BHK lacked a tiny fraction of a percentage point to enter the parliament. Tsarukian’s party suggested that this was the result of “trickery” by the CEC before initiating ballot recounts in many polling stations. The party spokeswoman, Iveta Tonoyan, said some of the recounts have already exposed glaring discrepancies between the numbers of BHK votes shown in precinct protocols and the CEC tally.
Tonoyan also called into question the overall results reported by the CEC, citing “the huge scale of electoral violations” witnessed by BHK proxies.
Strong Armenia, Hayastan and the BHK alleged numerous irregularities throughout the voting and ballot counting accompanied by continuing arrests of their members or supporters accused of vote buying. Karapetian and other opposition leaders cried foul after Pashinian claimed a “historic victory” overnight when less than one-fifth of the ballots cast were counted by election officials. They accused him of trying to rig the election results through the CEC, which is dominated by his loyalists.
Pashinian declared in the morning that he and his party have “crushed” their main election challengers again described by him as a “three-headed party of war.” And he again vowed to jail their leaders.
“This will be one of the most important agendas of the political majority and the government, which we must implement without delay and with very decisive steps,” he said.
Despite its election victory, Pashinian’s party fell short of a two-thirds majority in the parliament, which is required for enacting a new Armenian constitution demanded by Azerbaijan. The constitution drafted by the Armenian Justice Ministry earlier this year needs to be approved by the parliament before being put on a referendum.