Municipal elections were held in Armenia. According to preliminary data, the ruling Civil Contract party won most of the communities where the results are already known. Voting ended on October 25 at 20:00. The turnout ranged from 25.39% to 68.83% (in Stephanoven, which became the leader in turnout). The elections were held against the backdrop of the arrest and detention of opposition candidates. The Ministry of the Interior received 35 reports of alleged offenses, materials on five episodes were transferred to the investigative authorities. In Artik, the day before the elections, the candidate for the position of head of the community, Arthur Estoyan from the "Ert for Life" party, and some of his associates were brought, the court refused to arrest them. In Stephanwan, the Anti-Corruption Commission indicted 24 people involved in the case of allegedly giving and receiving electoral bribes. According to preliminary data, "Civil Contract" leads in 15 of the 17 communities for which the results have already been published.