MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Final voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election in Moscow exceeded 66%, Olga Kirillova, head of the city’s election commission, said.

"A total of 66.73% of Moscow residents [eligible to vote] took part in the election," she specified at a commission meeting. "As for the outcome, Vladislav Davankov received 357,918 votes. <...> Vladimir Putin garnered 4,580,656 votes, Leonid Slutsky got 152,479 votes and Nikolay Kharitonov received 206,448 votes," Kirillov added.

Voter turnout passed 60% in the 2018 presidential election and stood above 58.1% in the 2012 election.

The election commission chief noted that there had been a total of 8,103,228 people on voter lists in Moscow. "[About] 500,000 [voters from other regions] were also included in the Mobile Voter mechanism," KIrillova added.

Earlier, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on its website that Putin had received 85.13% of the vote in Moscow after 100% of the ballots counted. New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov is second (6.65%), Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) nominee Nikolay Kharitonov is third (3.84%), and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) nominee Leonid Slutsky is fourth (2.83%).

According to Kirillova, no voting irregularities were recorded in Moscow.

Russia held its presidential election on March 15-17. For the first time, voting took place over a three-day period and incorporated online voting, which was available in about one-third of the country’s regions.