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The election for the fifth term of the Kaliningrad Oblast Duma was held on 13 March 2011. 20 deputies were elected in single-mandate electoral constituencies, 20 others in the general regional constituency under proportional representation.

Results

The participation grade was 42%. 4.22% of votes were declared unvalid. The table hereafter lists the results of the valid votes.

Results of the regional elections of 13 March 2011[1][2]
Party Percentage Direct
seats		 List
seats		 Total
seats
United Russia 42.6% 15 9 24
Communist Party of the Russian Federation 22.3% 1 5 6
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 13.1% – 2 2
A Just Russia 10.5% – 2 2
Patriots of Russia 8.9% – 2 2
Yabloko 2.5% – – –
Independents – 4 – 4
Total 99.9% 20 20 40

Marina Orgejewa (United Russia) was elected as chairperson of the regional Duma. The representative of the regional Duma in the Federation Council of Russia is Nikolai Vlasenko (United Russia).[3]

Independent deputies

There are four independents deputies, elected in single-seat constituencies. The Russian Political Parties Act is very restrictive, a recognized political party must have at least 50,000 members and 45 regional branches with more than 500 members,[4] so that non recognized political parties may not take part to elections unless through individual candidates. No local party is recognized.

  • Konstantin Yurevich Doroshok,[5] born September 1, 1969 in Vasilkovo (Kaliningrad Oblast).[6] He is the leader of the Justice (Template:Lang-ru, Spravedlivost) organization,[7] and coordinator of the local opposition coalition "Our Kaliningrad"[8] which was formed during the 2009-2010 protests in Kaliningrad.[9]
  • Solomon Israilivich Ginzburg, born September 25, 1959 in Jēkabpils (Latvia), has been elected to the third (2000-2006) and fourth (2006-2011) regional dumas, and reelected to the fifth in 2011.[10]
  • Vytautas Valdemaras Lopata, born November 19, 1956 in Krasnoyarsk to a deported Lithuanian father and a Russian mother, is the local chairperson of the opposition Russian People's Democratic Union. He is also co-chairman of the Kaliningrad Public Movement – Respublika, a successor to the banned autonomist Baltic Republican Party. He was a member of the Democratic Party of Russia from 2001 to 2005, and beforehand of Yabloko from 1998 to 2001. He has been elected to the regional Duma in 2000, 2006 and 2011. He ran also as a Democratic Party of Russia candidate for the mayorship of Kaliningrad in 2002, for the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 2003 and again for the mayorship of Kaliningrad in 2007, but this time for the new Russian People's Democratic Union.[11][12][13]
  • Igor Petrovich Rudnikov, born July 4, 1965 in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), has been elected to the third (2000-2006) and fourth (2006-2011) regional dumas, and reelected to the fifth in 2011 with 53.3% of the votes in his district where for the proportional elections the United Russia list got 24.5% of the vote, its lowest percentage in the whole Kaliningrad Oblast. He had been elected in 1996 to the City Council of Kaliningrad, and ran for mayor of Kaliningrad in 1998 and 2002.[14][15]

2012 by-election

A by-election for the 13th single-seat constituency is due to take place on 4 March 2012, in parallel with the Russian presidential election, amidst accusations of massive vote-buying e.g. by the candidate Arkady Korovikova, according to Vladimir Sultanov, a Kaliningrad Regional Duma deputy from the Communist Party, who called the election an "orgy of vote-buying" and wrote a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev.[16]

Sources

  1. ^ Königsberger Allgemeine, April 2011
  2. ^ Official website of the Kaliningrad Duma
  3. ^ Nikolai Vlasenko, Website of the regional Duma
  4. ^ see e.g. case of Republican Party of Russia v. Russia, Final Judgment, The European Court of Human Rights, 12 April 2011
  5. ^ Дорошок, Константин Юрьевич, article on the Russian language Wikipedia
  6. ^ Дорошок Константин Юрьевич, Website of the regional Duma
  7. ^ Справедливость (организация), article on the Russian language Wikipedia
  8. ^ Наш Калининград, article on the Russian language Wikipedia
  9. ^ Акции протеста в Калининграде (2009—2010), article on the Russian language Wikipedia
  10. ^ Гинзбург Соломон Израилевич, Website of the regional Duma
  11. ^ Лопата Витаутас Вальдемарас, Website of the regional Duma
  12. ^ Kaliningrad Flies an Orange Flag, Kommersant, 22 February 2005
  13. ^ Personal website of Vytautas Lopata
  14. ^ Рудников Игорь Петрович, Website of the regional Duma
  15. ^ Personal website of Igor Rudnikov
  16. ^ Владимир Султанов назвал довыборы в окрсовет Калининграда «вакханалией подкупа избирателей», Rugrad.eu ("Information and Business Portal"), 28 February 2012

See also

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