Opposition candidate loses runoff gubernatorial race in Russia's Primorsky Krai after suspicious last-minute vote-tally shift
On Sunday, September 16, Russia’s Primorsky Krai held a runoff gubernatorial election. With 95 percent of voting precincts reporting, Communist Party candidate Andrey Ishchenko was leading the race with 51.6 percent of the vote against Andrey Tarasenko, the incumbent from United Russia, who had just 45.8 percent. Afterwards, however, the gap started closing abruptly (as demonstrated by the chart below).