Armenia’s governing Civil Contract party captured just under half the vote in a parliamentary election that doubled as a referendum on its peace push with Azerbaijan and its steady turn toward the West, away from longtime patron Russia. With ballots counted from every polling station, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party secured 49.8% of the vote, according to results released today by the Central Election Commission (CEC), slipping from the 54% it won in the 2021 election. The count also pointed to a…