# Snap presidential election returns 92.12 percent official, including polling in Karabakh

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 7 February 2024 Azerbaijan held a snap presidential election. Official results gave [Ilham Aliyev](/people/ilham-aliyev) 92.12 percent, with nationwide polling including Karabakh. ODIHR’s final report of 27 February 2025 found a restrictive environment, no genuine alternatives, and serious concerns whether ballots were counted and reported honestly.

## Context

He ran. The CEC tabulated. ODIHR observed.

September 2023 operation; 7 February 2024 ballot.

The president of Azerbaijan is head of state and commander-in-chief. He can decree, appoint a vice-president, and order force. He does not sit as a Baku trial judge, does not write ICJ orders, and does not write European Commission memoranda.

## Evidence and sources

president.az / CEC carries the official instrument or communique. OSCE/ODIHR records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed snap certification ODIHR did not read as a genuine contest.

## What is established and what is not

Established: The CEC declared 92.12 percent after 7 February 2024; ODIHR’s 27 February 2025 report found no genuine alternatives and count-and-report concerns.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The CEC tabulated. ODIHR did not treat it as a genuine contest.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Snap presidential election returns 92.12 percent official, including polling in Karabakh, not a later speech about Snap presidential election returns 92.12 percent official, including polling in Karabakh.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Snap presidential election returns 92.12 percent official, including polling in Karabakh on 2024-02-07 is not a licence to treat every later president.az / CEC communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Snap presidential election returns 92.12 percent official, including polling in Karabakh into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. The CEC tabulated. ODIHR did not treat it as a genuine contest. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ilham Aliyev: https://factrail.ai/people/ilham-aliyev

## Drivers

- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/azerbaijan
- https://president.az/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/az-snap-election-2024