Preliminary results emerging from Sunday’s vote in the Yerevan City Council elections show that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia has swept the election and will have its top candidate as the Armenian capital’s next mayor.

According to the information reported by the Central Election Commission, with all ballots processed, the Republicans are top finishers with 190,171 votes (47.39 percent), followed by Prosperous Armenia Party (91,141 votes, or 22.71 percent) and the opposition Armenian National Congress (69,871 votes, or 17.41 percent).

All three have secured their passage into the City Council.

Orinats Yerkir (with 20,959 votes, or 5.29 percent) and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) (with 18,648 votes, or 4.65 percent) follow in the fourth and fifth places. Both are short of the 7 percent election barrier for political parties to make it into the 65-seat body.

The People’s Party has 8,569 votes (2.14 percent) and the Labor Socialist Party of Armenia has 1,951 votes (0.49 percent).

Under the law, a party needs more than 40 percent of the vote to be able to dominate the Yerevan City Council and install its top candidate as mayor.

(The final turnout figures released by the Central Electoral Commission Sunday night show that 407,745 out of Yerevan’s 771,477 eligible voters (or 52.85 percent) went to the polls.)