A senior Russian election official announced Sunday that Sergei Sobyanin had won reelection as Moscow's mayor, APA reports citing TASS.
As many as 2,499,114 voters voted for Sobyanin. Leonid Zyuganov, a candidate for the post of Moscow mayor from the Communist Party, took 8.11% of the vote, running ahead of LDPR’s Boris Chernyshov with 5.61% and Vladislav Davankov from the New People Party with 5.34%. Dmitry Gusev (A Just Russia - Patriots - For the Truth) got 3.93%.
Chairwoman of the Moscow City Election Commission Olga Kirillova said earlier that around 3.3 million people had taken part in the vote, with as many as 2.7 million Muscovites casting their vote online.