The Irkutsk region election commission clarified the number of voters who will take part in the governor election. As of July 1, there are 1 875 174, 3.5 thousand fewer than six months ago. The commission also gave updated data for Irkutsk, Bratsk and the Angarsk district, where the number of voters also slightly decreased. In addition, it became known that 94 ballot processing complexes will be used in the September 13 election in the region and 60 thousand absentee certificates will be made.
The Irkutsk Region Election Commission clarified on July 1 the number of voters who will take part in the gubernatorial election, naming a figure of 1,875,174 people.Compared with a similar figure six months ago, this is 3.5 thousand people fewer, which indicates a negative trend in the number of voters in the region.
This was reported by the press service of the Election Commission of the Irkutsk Region.
Also, the Irkutsk Regional Election Commission provided new voter data for a number of territories in the region in comparison with previous figures.
"In Irkutsk, 452,982 voters are registered, while in January there were 453,889. In Bratsk, there are 180,997 voters, previously there were 181,697. In the Angarsk urban district, as of January 1, 188,267 voters were registered, and currently there are 188,099," noted the Election Commission of the Irkutsk Region.
As a reminder, in the elections in Irkutsk, 94 ballot-processing complexes will be used as part of the gubernatorial election campaign. They will operate at polling stations with 1.5 thousand voters or more.
As reported earlier, on September 13 the residents of the Irkutsk Region will have to elect the governor of the region early. All major political parties have already nominated their candidates.
From United Russia, the acting governor of the Irkutsk Region Sergey Eroshchenko was nominated; from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, State Duma deputy Sergey Levchenko; from the Liberal Democratic Party, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Angara Region Oleg Kuznetsov; from A Just Russia, the secretary of the regional branch Larisa Egorova; from the Civic Platform, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Nasha Sibskana Artur Pyanov; from the Patriots of Russia Party, the chairman of the regional branch Vasily Prinichev; from the Russian Party of Pensioners for Justice, the chairman of the regional branch Leonid Karnaukhov.
For the early gubernatorial election in the Irkutsk Region, 60,000 absentee certificates will be produced, which will have a unified six-digit numbering.