Transnistrian legislative election, 2010

Transnistrian legislative election, 2010

December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12)
All 43 seats to the Supreme Council
First party Second party   Leader Anatoliy Kaminski Party Renewal Independent Leader since 2009 Leader's seat Constituency #19 (Rybnitsa) Last election 23 1 Seats won 25 16 Seat change +2 +15
Speaker before election Anatoliy Kaminski Renewal Elected Speaker Anatoliy Kaminski Renewal

A legislative election was held in Transnistria on 12 December 2010. All 43 seats of the Supreme Council of Transnistria were up for election. Transnistria uses first past the post with 43 single seat constituencies.

In preparation for the election, boundaries of the electoral constituencies were reviewed and revised in September 2010.

International observers

The Supreme Council passed a resolution on 27 October to invite international observers to monitor the election. MPs invited the members of the Federation Council, the State Duma, Russia’s Electoral Commission, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, the Parliament of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, North Ossetia-Alania, Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the European Parliament, the OSCE and the Council of Europe.

Observers present included representatives from Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Germany and Poland.

According to official data, 22 of the 43 members of its parliament (MPs) were born on the territory of PMR, while 4 were born in Moldova, 7 were born in Russia, 6 in Ukraine and 4 did not declare.

Result

According to the results, overall turnout was 43%, with Constituency #11 (located in Rîbnița District) reporting 70.1%, the highest in the country. In this district, Sheriff founder Ilya Kazmaly swept the vote, being re-elected with 97.85% (also the highest in the country). The lowest turnout was in Constituency #2 (Bendery), with 29.3%.

Results for 42 constituencies were announced on 13 December, with one recount going on, in Constituency #27 (in Slobozia District). The election here was won by Oleg Vasilaty, who took 35.84% of the vote, only slightly more than the number of votes "against all", which was the highest in the country at 31.5%.

According to the provisional results, Renewal has won the election, taking 25 out of 43 seats in parliament. Yevgeny Shevchuk, Mikhail Burla and Anatoliy Kaminski, leaders of Renewal, were among those (re-)elected.

The Pridnestrovie Communist Party got its first seat in parliament after its leader Oleg Khorzhan was elected in Constituency #40 (Tiraspol), defeating Renewal deputy leader Olga Gukalenko.

 Summary of the 12 December 2010 Parliament of Transnistria election results

Parties	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Renewal (Obnovleniye)			25	+2
Breakthrough (Proriv)			1
Pridnestrovie Communist Party			1
Non-partisans			16	+15
Against all	8,810	5.13	—	—
Total (turnout 42.26%)	171,771	100	43	—
Source: Renewal RIA Novosti Olvia Press Supreme Council CEC PKP

Aftermath

The Supreme Council held its first session in the new composition on 29 December 2010. In this session, Anatoly Kaminski was re-elected as speaker.

External links

• Transnistrian Central Electoral Commission (in Russian)