“For the first day, if we talk about the turnout in the elections of the highest officials of the regions, we have in Tatarstan - 27.5%, the lowest - in the Irkutsk region in the early elections of the governor - 8.11%,” RIA Novosti quotes her.
At the same time, in elections to the legislative bodies of Russian regions, the highest turnout is still in the Belgorod region (24.12%), and the lowest - in the Novosibirsk region (7.8%).
The head of the CEC added that these data are "relative", as the voting continues.
According to the order of a single voting day approved by the CEC, early voting takes place on September 11 and 12, and September 13 is the main voting day, TASS reports.
Earlier, the chairman of the Civil Society Development Fund, political strategist Konstantin Kostin, in an interview with FAN, commented on the current election campaign in Russia.