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First polling station protocol published in Penza region: Belozertsev gets over 75% vote

20:40 | 13.09.2015 | Politics

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Penza, 13 September 2015. PenzaNews. The election committee of the polling station No. 223 located in Zarechny of the Penza region, based in the inter-school training center on Stroiteley street, was the first to publish the primary protocol of the September 13 election. The committee completed the protocol at 20.15.

First polling station protocol published in Penza region: Belozertsev gets over 75% vote

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According to it, Ivan Belozertsev (United Russia) received 75.52% of the vote; Vladimir Simagin (CPRF) – 15.10%; Zhigansha Tuktarov (LDPR) – 4.17%; Gennady Yeroshin (“A Just Russia”) – 2.60%; Vladimir Popkov (“Rodina”) – 1.39%, the regional election committee informed PenzaNews agency.

As PenzaNews agency reported earlier, September 13 was the day of the Penza region gubernatorial election, as well as special elections of deputies for local government bodies of several municipalities.

All 1,105 polling stations in the Penza region for the gubernatorial election opened at 8.00 and were protected by some 1,500 police officers.

All five officially registered candidates – Ivan Belozertsev (United Russia), Vladimir Simagin (CPRF), Zhigansha Tuktarov (LDPR), Vladimir Popkov (“Rodina”) and Gennady Yeroshin (“A Just Russia”) – have cast their votes in their voting areas before 12.00.

Among the people who did the same before noon are the chairman of the Penza region Legislative Assembly Valery Lidin, the Penza city head Victor Kuvaytsev, the State Duma deputy Igor Rudensky, the former governor Vasily Bochkarev, and the first chairman of the CPRF regional committee, regional Legislative Assembly deputy Georgy Kamnev.

The electoral lists of the Penza region includes a total of 1,085,392 persons.

The previous public gubernatorial election in the Penza region were held in 2002, 13 years ago, when Vasily Bochkarev won the vote and went over for the second term, leaving behind his closest competitor Victor Ilyukhin, State Duma deputy for the Communist Party.

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