16:54, 15 September 2025

Dagestan Electoral Commission Estimates Turnout in Makhachkala at 75%

Based on the results of three days of voting, 75.02% of voters cast their ballots in the elections of deputies of the Makhachkala City Assembly, United Russia received over 75% of the votes.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on July 13, the Dagestan Electoral Commission reported on 49% of voters who voted in the municipal elections. In Dagestan, elections of deputies of the first convocation of the Makhachkala Assembly of Deputies were held from September 12 to 14, new representative bodies are also being formed in five more cities and 581 settlements, and elections of heads were simultaneously held in 22 villages.

The main intrigue in the Makhachkala City Assembly elections is whether the New People party will manage to get seats in the parliament, slightly pushing aside the representatives of traditional candidates from United Russia, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said political scientist and member of the Adam Smith Center Sergei Boyko.

The Dagestan Electoral Commission announced the preliminary results of the first elections of deputies of the Makhachkala City Assembly. According to the commission, 210,229 voters voted at 176 polling stations in the republic's capital over three days.

A total of 280,238 people were on the voter lists by the end of the voting. The turnout in the elections in Makhachkala was thus 75.02%, RIA Dagestan reports with reference to the election commission data.

United Russia received an absolute majority (72.56% or 152,577 votes). 11.21% of voters (23,577 people) cast their ballots for the lists of the party "A Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth", the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia received 8.72% and 5.78% (18,331 votes and 12,150 votes), respectively.

1.60% of voters (3,364 people) voted for the candidates from the New People party. The Republican Electoral Commission claims that it has not received any reports of violations during the voting and vote counting.

In which regions of the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts elections are being held in September, you can read in the "Caucasian Knot" reference "Single Voting Day 2025 in the South of Russia". The "Caucasian Knot" publishes materials about these elections on the page "Elections-2025: South of Russia".

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/415426