Voting in the Irkutsk region for governor has ended. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Final turnout was 27.33 percent, or 510 thousand voters. Counting is underway.
Polling stations in the Irkutsk Region closed at 20:00. The final voter turnout in the Irkutsk Region gubernatorial election was 27.33%. A total of 510,000 citizens took part in the voting.The most active turnout by the end of the voting day was shown by voters in the Bayandaevsky District, where 63.91% had voted by 19:30, in the Cheremkhovsky District - 50.17%, and in the Balagansky District - 49.24%. The average turnout in Irkutsk is estimated at about 22.9%. Low turnout was recorded throughout the day in Bratsk - 18.66%, in the Angarsk Urban District it was 19.01%, and in Bodaibo and the district - 19.86%.
All polling stations closed according to schedule. Vote counting is now underway. The preliminary election results and final turnout will be known a little later.
In total, four candidates were competing for the governor’s seat: Larisa Egorova (“A Just Russia”), Oleg Kuznetsov (LDPR), Sergei Levchenko (KPRF), and Sergei Eroshchenko (“United Russia”).