Record-low election turnout
Only 16 percent of the electorate cast their votes in Sunday’s city parliament elections in Arkhangelsk.
According to Regnum, only 16,08 percent of the electorate showed up at the polling stations yesterday. That is a new low in the region. The current leader of the local council, Yevgeny Kozhin, admits that turnout should have been higher, but believes the weather conditions kept many people home. At the same time, he argues that the elections were more democratic than any former local elections in the city. This Sunday was election day in as many as 75 of Russia’s federal subjects. In the Russian part of the Barents Region, only the city of Arkhangelsk organized elections.
