Mission accomplished

I would like to congratulate the residents of the Knyazhpogost district: now they have at least one honest deputy.

Nikolai Didyuk’s precinct included the villages of Rakpas (~160 voters) and Severny (~500). It seemed that United Russia had everything covered there; there were only 2 candidates - the 33-year-old nominee from United Russia Nalimov and the head of housing and communal services Zhdanov. The calculation was that housing and communal services were hated in the countryside because of the outrageous tariffs, and therefore the edros would easily become deputies. But literally on the last day of registration of candidates, Nikolai Nikolaevich arrives with two sets of signatures so that they are accurately registered.

How he later joyfully repeated mezak , “the result is a typical election technology - a third independent candidate wedges into the existing “agreement” and gathers the entire protest electorate.”
It is worth noting that Didyuk’s entire election campaign cost no more than 5,000 rubles, a large amount of which was spent on our journey to Knyazhpogost and back. A minimum number of leaflets and a gradual visit to all residents, for the sake of which N.N., a pensioner now living in Vylgort, “spent the whole week in homeless shelters.”

Great hopes were placed on Rakpas, almost Didyuk’s native village, where he worked for many years in the local colony. In general, the entire Rakpas depends on the colony, half of the voters work there, the colony clears the snow from the road, and maintains other infrastructure. All day long I heard conversations about how good it was when “the colonies were forestry, but when they were merged with Syktyvkar, everything became much worse,” 2 other popular topics for conversations in rakpas: “how sick of the housing and communal services sector, which does nothing, but takes a lot of money” and “how good it was under Soviet rule: the club worked, there were more colonies, planes flew to Syktyvkar.”

Final results for Rakpas:
Zhdanov - 40 votes
Didyuk - 35
Nalimov (edros) - 18
Spoiled ballots - 11

The results turned out to be interesting, the housing and communal services worker won, and Didyuk scored even less than he collected in Rakpas signatures for nomination. There is reason to believe that the colony authorities, who were not interested in his election, worked against Nikolai, but this is a topic for a separate post, but for now we took the voting protocol and went to Severny, from where mezak signaled: “there are chances.”

Apparently, in Severny they knew the candidates from United Russia too well, and the village expressed its will as follows:
Didyuk - 158 votes
Nalimov - 126
Zhdanov - 89.

Nikolai Nikolaevich only needed the Northern one to win these elections. When the numbers were in the protocols, we went for champagne and sweets, drank a glass of victory, and Didyuk told the TEC workers about his first actions as a deputy. As promised, he will fight the housing and communal services.

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In Rakpas and Northern United Russia it barely got 40%, and the most typical United Russia voter lives there: many older people and ordinary working people who don’t listen to “Echo of Moscow” and don’t go to your Internet. Considering that in Syktyvkar (25% of residents of the Republic of Kazakhstan), they also did not get more than 40%, I don’t know how they get more than half of the votes in the republic as a whole.

More precisely, I guess, but there are no facts, I only followed one small area.