{"id":19719,"date":"2023-06-15T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2024-05-04T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T09:28:29","slug":"invalid-votes-in-the-electoral-process-of-may-14-2023-invalidity-by-regions-and-municipalities-processes-2011-to-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=19719&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Invalid Votes in the Electoral Process of May 14, 2023, Invalidity by regions and municipalities, Processes 2011 to 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the May 2023 Local Government Election process at the country level, 43,127 invalid votes were cast in the voting process for mayors. This is 3% of those who voted. In the Municipal Council vote, the number is higher with 50,613 invalid ballots or 3.6% of the total number of participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"516\" height=\"318\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=469107242&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the national level, the highest vote invalidity was recorded in 2019 (6%), but this was due to the boycott of the elections by the opposition, therefore these elections are not considered normal processes, since there were not that many options for making a choice on the ballot papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 election process marked 5% vote invalidity, which also coincides with the new electoral system, which has brought confusion to voters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"735\" height=\"331\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=1128996726&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mayoral elections.<\/strong> The largest municipalities in the country also have the highest number of invalid votes, Tirana, 11,939 such, Durr\u00ebs &#8211; 2,473 invalid votes, Fieri &#8211; 2,140 invalid votes and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest invalidity in the mayoral elections results in the municipality of P\u00ebrmet, with respectively 5.9% of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The municipalities with the highest invalidity following P\u00ebrmet are: Kolonja 4.8%, Ura Vajgurore Dimali 4.2%, Lushnja 4.2%, Poli\u00e7ani 4.1%, Fieri 4%, P\u00ebrrenjasi 4% and so on. In the capital, the invalidity of the vote for the election of the mayor results in the level of 3.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The least problematic municipalities in terms of vote invalidity are Dropulli 1.2%, Kuk\u00ebsi 1.4%, and K\u00eblcyra 1.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"925\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=508818252&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Municipal Council elections.<\/strong> Similarly to the elections of council members, the number of invalid votes is higher in the municipality of Tirana (10,331 such votes), Durr\u00ebs (2,773 votes), and Fier (2,290 votes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The municipality with the highest vote invalidity for council members is Bulqiza with 6.4% of votes in the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The municipalities of Librazhd (6%), Prrenjas (6%), Finiq (5.7%), Kurbin (5.7%), Ura Vajgurore (5.4%) and so on are also problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less problematic are the 3 municipalities in which electronic voting took place, namely in Kam\u00ebz (0.9%), Vor\u00eb (1.2%), and Elbasan (1.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"600\" height=\"925\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=1258794009&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only in the district of Tirana, more invalid votes result for the election of the mayor than for the members of the council. Accordingly, 3.6% of votes are invalid in the mayoral elections, compared to 3.1% that are invalid in the case of elections for council members. In all other counties, the number of invalid votes for council members is higher than for mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"702\" height=\"371\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=1222241782&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the invalidity by municipalities, there are only 8 municipalities in which the invalidity of the vote is higher in the mayoral elections than in the municipal council elections, namely, P\u00ebrmet, Vor\u00eb, Kam\u00ebz, Elbasan, Himare, Tirana, Kolonje and Kor\u00e7\u00eb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, in the municipalities of Kurbin, Pustec, Puka, Belsh and Bulqiza, the invalidity for the municipal council elections is 3.2 percentage points higher than in the mayoral elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"1191\" height=\"371\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=1521867908&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to 2015, in the elections for the council in all districts, the invalidity of the vote was higher in 2023, excluding the district of Tirana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the mayoral elections, the invalidity of the vote has increased more in the district of Tirana, compared to 8 years ago, namely 1.4 percentage points (2.2% in 2015 vs 3.6% in 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"943\" height=\"371\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=723312522&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>  \n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invalidity according to municipalities shows that in most of them, the share of invalid ballots was greater in the 2021 elections. The exception is the municipality of Dropulli, Konispol, and Selenica, in which the invalidity in the mayoral elections is even higher than in the 2021 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the Rrogozhin municipality, the invalidity of votes for the 2023 council elections is higher than in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"962\" height=\"380\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=604880129&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold\"> <b>Table:<\/b> Invalid votes by municipalities, over the years <\/span> <br><br>\n<iframe width=\"2129\" height=\"1521\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vR_59h6eB_6p-ne96Y5y53ttWJcU8WwcXGqIoCGzYQFio5JkKvCfOll7VofohYGvaa6JTjbd8F06TT5\/pubchart?oid=321350870&amp;format=interactive\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><small><br>\nSource: CEC <br>\nComments and Analyses: Open Data Albania <\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data, results and analysis on Electoral Processes can be accessed on the Open Data Albania website, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?cat=491\">Electoral Processes<\/a> category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<b>Download excel:<\/b> If you want to access the excel or dataset that accompanies this article, please write to us at <a href=\"info@ais.al\">info@ais.al<\/a><br>\n<b>Comments and Analyses:<\/b> Open Data Albania<br>\n<b>Contributed by:<\/b> Ilir Brasha <br>\n<b>Translated by: <\/b>Etleva Pushi\n<style>\np{\ntext-align: justify !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the May 2023 Local Government Election process at the country level, 43,127 invalid votes were cast in the voting process for mayors. This is 3% of those who voted. In the Municipal Council vote, the number is higher with 50,613 invalid ballots or 3.6% of the total number of participants. Source: CEC Comments and Analyses: Open Data Albania At the national level, the highest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[493,1364,57],"tags":[7309,7310,5801,7316,3611,7317,7151,5698,5411,7340,7338,7313,7341,7312,7306,1630,7336,7342,7339,7337,7314,7148,7308,7307],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/ndiqparate.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Data.Al_-Pavlefshmeria-e-Votes-Procese-Zgjedhore-nder-vite.png?fit=735%2C331&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24097,"url":"https:\/\/ndiqparate.al\/?p=24097&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":19719,"position":0},"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZED CRIME ON ELECTORAL PROCESSES AND FACT-BASED YOURNALISM","date":"May 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Between 2023 and 2025, the Special Prosecution Office Against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPAK) has taken significant action against several structured criminal groups suspected of involvement in electoral crimes during the 2021 elections, particularly in the districts of Shkod\u00ebr, Durr\u00ebs, Elbasan, and Lezha. 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