Sverdlovsk Election Commission publishes the first preliminary data on voting results. According to the GAS election system, 74.66% of votes were given for Vladimir Putin.

In the second place, the candidate from the Communist Party Pavel Grudinin - 11.56%, the top three closes the liberal democrat Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 7.16%. For Xenia Sobchak voted 1.89% of voters. While official data disagree with the information of observers from the "candidate against all". According to the headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak, for her in the Sverdlovsk region voted 3.8%.

The polling stations, which started work at 08:00, closed at 20:00. According to recent reports, turnout in the region was 56.50%.

Today in Russia there was a vote in the presidential elections in Russia. In the region there were 80 territorial election commissions and 2,541 precinct election commissions. The ballot included eight names of candidates: Vladimir Putin, Pavel Grudinin, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Ksenia Sobchak, Grigory Yavlinsky, Boris Titov, Sergey Baburin and Maxim Suraykin.