The YABLOKO party obtained over 11 per cent of votes at
the Tula City Duma elections getting the right from three
to four mandates.
Also YABLOKO’s list got 28.5 per cent of the votes at
elections to local legislative assembly of the Solnechny
settlement, the Tver region. At present YABLOKO’s deputies
are forming a faction YABLOKO – United Democrats in the
municipal parliament.
Olga Kurmanskaya, Chair of Commission for Education, Culture
and Social Policies and Anatoly Makarov, pensioner and acting
deputy of the Astrakhan City Duma were supported by YABLOKO
and became deputies of the Astrakhan City Duma getting 49
per cent and 67 per cent of the votes respectively.
YABLOKO’s list at elections to the local assembly of the
Nevelsky Area of the Pskov Region was supported by 7.58
per cent of the voters (fourth place). Thus, the party overcomes
the barrier and obtains one mandate (as nine mandates out
of 17 are distributed in accordance with party lists). Lawyer
Svetlana Arsenyeva will become a deputy from YABLOKO.
Three YABLOKO’s candidates passed to the municipal assembly
of the Nevel city at elections in three-mandate districts:
enterepreneur Alexander Arsenyev (who came second with 28.73
per cent of the votes), professor of the Agricultural Academy
Vyacheslav Vorobyov (also came second with 23.8 percent)
and accountant Yulia Anischenkova (came third with 23.02
per cent). Thus, YABLOKO obtains three mandates out of 15
in the Nevel Municipal Assembly (compared to one mandate
in the previous convocation).
Two YABLOKO’s candidates were elected deputies of the rural
settlement Ust-Dolysskaya Volost in two-mandate districts:
teacher and pensioner Ludmila Kozlova (came second with
31.13 per cent) and builder Svetlana Tkachenko (also came
second with 39.29 per cent of the votes).
YABLOKO’s candidate collage director Sergei Semyonov won
the race to the Sebezh local assembly for the second time
(45.98 per cent).
Engineer Antonina Vassilyeva was elected deputy of the
local assembly of the Porkhov city (came second with 35.2
per cent).
Director of the city history museum Nadezhda Singatullova
was elected deputy of the local assembly of the Gdov city
(came second with 49.18 per cent).
Pensioner and public activist Vladimir Zabelin was elected
deputy of the local assembly of the Polnov district of the
Gdov Area (came third with 52.19 per cent).
YABLOKO also got two mandates in the local assembly of
the Partizan district of Krasnogorodsky Area. Teacher Svetlana
Yakovleva won the race with 61.46 per cent of the votes
and director of the local post office Alexandra Timofeyeva
came fourth with 39.58 per cent.
The following YABLOKO’s candidates became deputies of the
local assembly of the Morinsk district of the Dnov Area:
veterinarian Tatyana Anisimova (the winner of the race,
63.9 per cent) and entrepreneur Alexei Savelyev (came fourth,
51.22 per cent).
Teacher Lubov Zhiltzova was elected deputy of the local
assembly of the Palkin district of the Palkin Area (came
third with 41.55 per cent in a five-mandate district).
Shop assistant Ludmila Kolpakova became deputy of the local
assembly of the Berezhansk district of the Ostrovsky Area
(came fifth in a five-mandate district with 18.6 per cent).
YABLOKO will have two deputies in the Local Assembly of
the Krasnokamsky Area of the Perm Region. Svetlana Ivanova
obtained over 55 per cent of the votes in her district and
acting deputy of the Local assembly Arkady Kolokolov over
57 per cent.
Engineer Vassily Potapov, YABLOKO’s leader in Miass of the
Chelyabinsk Region, obtained a little less than 50 per cent
of the votes and was reelected deputy of the municipal Council
of Deputies of Miass.
See also:
Regional
and Local Elections 2010
Tula region: violations
elections to the regional parliament. Press Release. March
14, 2010
Progovernmental
United Russia is buying off votes in Tula. Statement by
the party Chairman. March 12, 2010
Mass-scale buying of votes
in favour of the United Russia and the Just Russia party
observed at pre-term elections in Tula. Press Release, March
10, 2010
