Mongolian Presidential election 2017 (1st round: 26 June; 2nd round: 7 July)

[Mike88]

Didn't found any topic about this election. Anyway, Mongolia held presidential elections yesterday and for the first time ever there was a runoff between the two top candidates. The 2nd round was held on July 7th. In the first round there were 3 candidates:

- Battulga Khaltmaa (Democratic Party DP): Current MP, Minister between 2008-2012;

- Miyeegombyn Enkhbold (Mongolian People's Party MPP): Current MPP leader, former PM (2006-2007) and current speaker of the Mongolian Parliament;

- Sainkhuugiin Ganbaatar (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party MPRP): Current MP;

Official results were released yesterday:

38.6% Battulga Khaltmaa DP Runoff
30.8% Miyeegombyn Enkhbold MPP Runoff
30.6% Sainkhuugiin Ganbaatar MPRP

  1.4% Invalid/Blank

68.3% Turnout

Full results here.

Electoral Map (from wikipedia):


Legend:
Blue - Battulga Khaltmaa
Red - Miyeegombyn Enkhbold
Yellow - Sainkhuugiin Ganbaatar

[Gustaf]

2nd round is happening today. Anyone know of any good source?

[Mike88]

2nd round is happening today. Anyone know of any good source?

I'm following results from here.

The preliminary results right now are as follow:

50.7% Battulga Khaltmaa DP
40.9% Miyeegombyn Enkhbold MPP
  8.4% Invalid/Blank

[Famous Mortimer]

The centre-left should have won this easily since the third place finisher was far left and the centre-left and the far left had 60% of the vote in the first round. Looks like a significant number of the far left voters went with the conservative in the second round.

[Gustaf]

I'm guessing it's less about ideology like in many emerging democracies.

[Neo-JacobitefromNewYork]

Some excerpts from Dr. Julian Diaries of UNC in the Diplomat:

Mongolia Just Chose a New President. What Now?http://thediplomat.com/2017/07/mongolia-just-chose-a-new-president-what-now/

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[Famous Mortimer]

This photo college is now circulating the internet, claiming to be of the new president? Can anyone confirm? I want to believe but I was burned by those pictures of the president of Croatia that turned out to be Ice T's wife.