The mayoral elections in the Russian Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk may be pronounced as valid. More than 25.5 percent of recorded voters went to the polls by 14.00 local time, Tass learnt at the city election commission. The threshold turnout is 20 percent.
The mayoral post is contested by 10 aspirants, including the incumbent mayor, vice-governor of the region, businessmen, men of culture, medics and others.
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PSKOV – The Pskov Region started electing its governor on Sunday. All the 705 polling stations where 609,446 voters are supposed to cast their ballots, opened at 08.00 local time. Incumbent Governor Yevgeny Mikhailov, deputy of the All-Russian State Duma Alexei Mitrofanov, generals Nikolai Staskov and Alexander Solyanov, businessmen Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Bryachak, Andrei Tarasov and Igor Provkin contest the highest post in the region.
Representatives from the Central Election Commission as well as from commissions of the North-Western Russia monitor progress in the elections.
UST-ORDINSKY – The elections of the administration head in the Ust-Ordinsky Buryatia Autonomous Area can be pronounced as valid: 29.79 percent of voters (threshold turnout –25 percent) went to the polls by 14.00 local time, Tass learnt at the area election commission.
The turnout was especially high in the Nukutsky and Osinsky districts where 44.69 and 33.29 percent of voters went to the polls by the above time.
The gubernatorial post of the autonomous area is vied by incumbent Governor Valery Maleyev, administration head of the Ekhirit-Bulagatsky district Pyotr Khakhalov and deputy head of the territorial department of the same district Veniamin Khingeyev.
Representatives from the Central Election Commission as well as bodies of executive and legislative powers from several subjects of the Russian Federation monitor the elections.
BLAGOVESHCHENSK, November 14 (Itar-Tass)
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