In Sunday's vote, will Armenia elect pro-US Pashinyan over Putin buddies for Prime Minister?
67% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 27 predictions cast.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won the June 7, 2026, parliamentary elections with approximately 49.81 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results from the Central Election Commission. The main opposition bloc, Strong Armenia, finished a distant second with 23.29 percent. Turnout exceeded 58 percent of eligible voters.
Pashinyan declared victory in the early hours of June 8 and pledged to continue the country's "rapprochement with the West" while also maintaining relations with Russia. The election was widely framed as a test of Russian influence in the South Caucasus, following Armenia's departure from the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2024.
International observers closely monitored the vote as a signal of whether small post-Soviet states could maintain a pro-Western orientation amid continued pressure from Moscow. The result keeps Pashinyan in power to continue his foreign-policy realignment. Predict Six participants predicted YES at 67 percent, and the community called it correctly.