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URP wins Kamchatka municipal elections

No serious infractions were revealed on the common polling day on Sunday, deputy chairman of the KT electoral commission said

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, October 15 (Itar-Tass) — The United Russia party (URP) has won municipal elections in the Kamchatka Territory (KT), a member of the KT electoral commission has told Itar-Tass.

No serious infractions were revealed on the common polling day on Sunday, said Anatoly Gafiatulin,deputy chairman of the KT electoral commission.

In voting on party tickets in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in particular, the URP polled 51.31 percent of the vote and got ten seats in the City Duma legislature; the CPRF gained 14.7 percent of the vote to get three seats; the LDPR with 13.01 percent of the vote gained two seats; "A Just Russia" party polled 3.3 percent of the vote to get one seat in the city legislature.

Voter turnout in the city was low. The polling involved 23,362 voters, or 16.62 percent of 140,525 people with the right to vote.