Degtyarev spoke about the turnout for elections to the State Duma in the Khabarovsk Territory

"The turnout over the past six years is a record ... Now we see 42%," TASS quoted Degtyarev as saying.

According to him, this suggests that people had a great desire to speak out.

Earlier it became known that the total turnout in the elections to the State Duma by 14:50 Moscow time on September 19 was 40.49%.