2023 election results: how votes to be transmitted

The results of the 2023 national elections to be held on 21 May are expected to be announced in record time, as it has already been announced that 20,000 tablets in all polling stations of the region will be thrown into the "battle" on Sunday evening.

The government staff, for the first time, is looking forward to an express election night with no late night, in terms of waiting time for the announcement of the parties' percentages and the "crosses" that the parliamentary candidates will receive.

All portable devices - reportedly - will be equipped with the Secure Result Transmission System (SRT), so that the recording of valid and crosses will go directly to the Ministry of Interior.

According to the plan, the election night will be completed at 21:00, since there will be the possibility of transmitting results for 80% of the territory, as announced a few days ago by the Minister of Digital Governance Kyriakos Pierrakakis. The simulation that has been carried out shows that a little earlier, at 20:00 in the evening, the result will be transmitted for about 25%+ of the territory.

Polls will open at 7am on Sunday morning and close at 7pm. The officials of the Ministry of Interior, estimate that by midnight, the picture of the cross-over, i.e. the first places and the ranking order of the parliamentary candidates, will also be reflected.

How the results of the parliamentary elections will be transmitted

The following steps will be followed for the transmission of the results of the national elections of 21 May, which will be made directly to the Ministry of Interior, as provided for by Article 94A of Decree Law 26/2012:

Immediately after the sorting of the ballot papers in favour of the combinations has been completed, the judicial representative shall transmit the result to the Ministry of Interior, using the secure transmission device (SRT).

In particular, it transmits:

(A) The total number of voters registered at the polling station.

B) The total number of voters registered at the polling station; B) The total number of voters who voted.

C) The number of ballots recognized as valid.

D) The number of invalid ballot papers.

E) The number of blank ballots.