Chairman of the Election Commission of the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Chaynikov commented on the difference in the number of votes given for Ksenia Sobchak in the Russian Federation (1.68%) and the region (2.12%). In the subject of Russia, the opposition candidate scored 0, 44% more.

Such a discrepancy in figures he associated with the politically heterogeneous composition of society in the country. "Candidate Against All", even before the voting day, Valery Chaynikov discussed with the regional ombudsman Tatyana Merzlyakova. He assumed that for it in the region will give up to 2%.

"What did the authorized representative say to me: I would like to see 2%, and then we look, once - 2, 12%," he told the details of the conversation, answering the question of the correspondent of JustMedia. en.

He himself admitted that he "does not communicate with that layer of society", which Sobchak supports:.

"But Tatiana Georgievna, a human rights watchdog, was more concerned about how they would react to this candidate".

Presidential Elections were held on March 18. Vladimir Putin scored 74.60% of the vote in the region, Pavel Grudinin - 11.58%, Vladimir Zhirinovsky - 6.79%, Ksenia Sobchak - 2.12%, Grigory Yavlinsky - 1.30%, Boris Titov - 0.93 %, Maxim Suraykin - 0.64%, Sergei Baburin - 0.73%. The turnout in the elections in the region was 62.35% and beat the record of the elections in 2000, when 61.36% of voters came to polling stations.