In Irkutsk region, election results for the Legislative Assembly are being summed up, according to preliminary data, United Russia won a clear victory with 49 percent of the vote. LDPR got 15 percent, the Communist Party 13 percent, A Just Russia 8 percent, and in the future parliament most seats will go to United Russia. Nearly 4.5 thousand observers watched the vote, and the official results are promised by the end of the week.

The temporary election commission for the elections of deputies to the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region is summing up the results. The undisputed leader in the recent vote was United Russia. According to preliminary data, the party managed to win 49% of the votes cast.
Trailing behind it, but by a significant margin, is the LDPR. The Liberal Democrats have 15%. Two more parties managed to overcome the seven-percent threshold. These are the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia. They have 13% and 8%, respectively. Nearly 4,500 observers monitored the voting process at polling stations across the region. For the same purpose, Nikolai Konkin, Secretary of the Central Election Commission, arrived in the Angara region. As journalists were told at a press conference, the seats in the future parliament will be distributed as follows: by party lists, United Russia will receive 14 mandates, LDPR deputies 5, communists 4, and Just Russia 2 mandates. "In the single-mandate districts, the majority of candidates who received the highest number of votes were nominated by the United Russia party. In total, there are 17 such candidates. Thus, in the Legislative Assembly, United Russia will receive 31 mandates. A Just Russia and the agrarians received one mandate each. And 6 self-nominated candidates also received the highest number of votes," commented Lyudmila Shavenkova, deputy chair of the Irkutsk Region election commission.
"Yesterday passed in accordance with the law, in a calm atmosphere. I noted no violations related to the voting procedure, neither in the counting of votes by members of the election commissions nor by me," said Nikolai Konkin, Secretary of the Central Election Commission of Russia.
The official election results will be announced by the end of this week. They will then be published in the media. The date of the first session of the new parliament has already been set. It is scheduled for October 24. The meeting will be chaired by the head of the regional election commission, Viktor Ignatenko, until the speaker is elected.