Erion Veliaj will serve a third mandate as Mayor of Tirana.<\/p>\n
With the counting process officially over, Central Election Committee data show that Veliaj has won by a landslide, with 158,688 votes in total, or 54,69%.<\/p>\n
Second in the race came \u201cTogether We Win\u201d coalition candidate, Belind K\u00eblli\u00e7i, who gathered a total of 100,351 votes, or 34,58%.<\/p>\n
There is a difference of 58,337 votes in favor of Veliaj, compared to K\u00eblli\u00e7i.<\/p>\n
Veliaj managed to score a sweeping victory even in areas considered as Democrat strongholds, and results show that he also got the majority even in K\u00eblli\u00e7i\u2019s voting zone.<\/p>\n
According to the final Euronews Albania poll regarding the local elections, Veliaj was projected to win with 54,4% of the vote (with a poll margin error of \u00b12), whereas K\u00eblli\u00e7i was projected to get 37,1% of the vote.<\/p>\n
In other relevant data from the CEC, Arlind Qori came third in the race for Tirana, with 13,835 votes in total, or 4,77%, leaving the Democratic Party candidate Roland Bejko in fourth place, with 12,388 votes in total, or 4,27%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Erion Veliaj will serve a third mandate as Mayor of Tirana. With the counting process officially over, Central Election Committee data show that Veliaj has won by a landslide, with 158,688 votes in total, or 54,69%. Second in the race came \u201cTogether We Win\u201d coalition candidate, Belind K\u00eblli\u00e7i, who gathered a total of 100,351 votes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,243,151,1015,323,736],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n