| A gubernatorial election was held in St. Petersburg on
Sunday. With 99 percent of the votes counted, none of the candidates for
Governor of St. Petersburg gathered 50 percent of the vote.
According to the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission, Presidential
Representative in the North West Federal District Valentina Matviyenko
leads in the election, with 48.61 percent of the vote. Vice-Governor of
St. Petersburg Anna Markova comes second, with 15.89 percent. Thus Matviyenko
and Markova will take part in the second round.
Sergey Belyayev, the former general director of Sheremetevo airport,
received 8.1 percent. Mikhail
Amosov, head of the Yabloko party's faction in the Legislative Assembly
of St. Petersburg, collected 7.06 percent.
10.97 percent of voters voted against all candidates. The turnout was
28.99 percent (1.068m people). According to the St. Petersburg Electoral
Commission, no attempts to buy votes have been reported.
See also:
Gubernatorial
elections in St. Petersburg 2003
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