Taraclia District
Appearance
Taraclia | |
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District (Raion) | |
Country | Republic of Moldova |
Administrative center (Oraş-reşedinţă) | Taraclia |
Government | |
• Raion President | Vasile Plagov |
Area | |
• Total | 674 km2 (260 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 37,357 |
• Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Area code | +373 74 |
Car plates | TA |
Taraclia (Bulgarian: Тараклия) is a district (Romanian: raion) in the south of Moldova, with the administrative center at Taraclia.
As of 1 January 2012, its population was 44,100, 65.6% of whom were ethnic Bulgarians. The district covers an area of 1,022 km² and has the lowest population density of all districts of Moldova.
Demographics
- Births (2010): 464 (10.5 per 1000)
- Deaths (2010): 562 (12.7 per 1000)
- Growth Rate (2010): –98 (–2.2 per 1000)
Ethnic groups
- 66.1% Bulgarians
- 14.0% Moldovans / Romanians
- 9.0% Gagauzians
- 5.2% Ukrainians
- 4.5% Russians
- 0.5% Romani
- Other and undeclared 1.15%
Religion
- Christians – 96.6%
- Orthodox Christians - 94.3%
- Protestant – 2.3%
- Baptists – 1.3%
- Evangelicals – 0.5%
- Pentecostals – 0.3%
- Seventh-day Adventists – 0.2%
- Other – 1.7%
- No Religion – 1.3%
- Atheists – 0.4%
Politics
Traditionally in Taraclia district, political and electoral support for the PCRM is higher than the rest of the southern part of Moldova. Communists have the largest percentage of the Moldova votes in this district. But the last three elections communists saw a continuous decline in percentage.
During the last three elections AEI had an increase of 147.1%
Year | AEI | PCRM |
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2010 | 19.75% 3,845 | 69.61% 13,561 |
July 2009 | 16.15% 3,183 | 80.70% 15,897 |
April 2009 | 8.02% 1,556 | 69.41% 13,477 |
Elections
Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | +/− | |
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Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/PCRM| | Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova | 13,561 | 69.61 | −11.09 |
Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/PDM| | Democratic Party of Moldova | 2,180 | 11,19 | +1.14 |
Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/PLDM| | Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova | 1,217 | 6.25 | +3.28 |
United Moldova | 621 | 3.19 | +3.19 | |
Humanist Party of Moldova | 483 | 2.48 | +2.48 | |
Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/PSD| | Social Democratic Party | 425 | 2.18 | +0.22 |
Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/AMN| | Party Alliance Our Moldova | 256 | 1.31 | −0.62 |
Template:Moldovan politics/party colours/PL| | Liberal Party | 192 | 1.00 | −0.20 |
Other Party | 548 | 2.79 | +1.60 | |
Total (turnout 60.80%) | 19,656 | 100.00 |
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