Irkutsk Duma deputies decided to hold municipal elections on October 11 and will publish it in the media in the coming days, after which nominations for the fifth convocation city Duma will begin. At the same time, single member district boundaries were adjusted to reflect changes in voter addresses. The city will form 35 districts, with about 12.5 thousand voters in each. The report also notes that Irkutsk became one of 11 cities and districts where municipal elections for this date have already been announced.
The decision to hold municipal elections on the single voting day of October 11 was made today by the deputies of the Irkutsk City Duma. As the Chairman of the Irkutsk City Duma, Andrey Labygin, reported, this decision will be published in the media within five days, after which the nomination and registration of candidates for deputies of the City Duma of the fifth convocation will begin.In addition, due to changes in the addresses of a number of voters, the deputies made adjustments to the scheme of single-member electoral districts. According to this scheme, the number of voters in one electoral district of Irkutsk should be 12,473 people. Permissible deviations are no more than 10%.
In total, 35 single-member electoral districts will be organized in Irkutsk for the election of deputies of the Duma of the fifth convocation, including nine in the Leninsky District, eight in the Oktyabrsky District, six in the territory of the Kirovsky and Kuybyshevsky districts, and 12 in the Sverdlovsky District. According to information as of January 1, 2009, the total number of voters registered in Irkutsk is 436,540 people.
Thus, as the press service of the regional election commission reports, as of today municipal elections on October 11 have already been announced in 11 cities and districts. In Usolye-Sibirskoye and the Bokhansky District, local dumas will hold meetings on Friday, June 17, and in Sayansk, Zima, and the Ziminsky District – on Monday, July 20.