Venezuela's ruling party won 20 of the country's 23 governorships in regional and local elections, according to preliminary results released by the electoral authority on Monday.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the Latin American country's ruling party since 2010, won 20 governorships, including the capital Caracas, according to initial results, with 90% of the ballots counted.
Opposition parties, on the other hand, won elections in three states, including Zulia, one of the country’s most populous states, in the polls they participated in after a boycott of presidential polls in 2018 and congressional elections in 2020.
Isabel Santos, the head of the EU election observer mission, said in a statement that the regional and municipal elections in Venezuela were held “calmly.”
Meanwhile, the turnout of the registered voters in the election was 41.8%.
Initially, more than 20 million people were eligible to vote in 23 governorship and 335 mayorship contests in a country with a population of over 28.4 million.
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