Arayik Harutyunyan and Masis Mayilyan will face off for the post of Artsakh president in a second round of balloting scheduled for April 14 since none of the thirteen candidates in yesterday election garnered more than 50% of the vote.

The two lead the field with former Artsakh PM Arayik Harutyunyan winning 49.26% of the vote and current Artsakh Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan receiving 26.4%.

The results of yesterday’s presidential election are as follows:

Arayik Harutyunyan: 36,076 votes (49.26%)

Masis Mayilyan: 19,360 (26.4%)

Vladimir Balasanyan: 10,755 (14.7%)

Davit Ishkhanyan: 1,883 (2.56%)

Ashot Ghulyan: 1,683 votes (2.3%)

Hayk Khanumyan: 962 votes (1.3%)

Vahan Badasyan: 743 votes (1%)

Ruslan Israyelyan: 368 votes (0.5%)

Kristine Balayan: 202 votes (0.3%)

Ashot Dadayan: 198 votes (0.3%)

Bella Lalayan: 162 votes (0.2%)

Melsik Poghosyan: 141 votes (0.2%)

Sergey Amiryan: 106 votes (0.2%)

2,625 ballots were rejected.

Voter turnout in yesterday’s election was 73.5%