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Transnistrian legislative election, 2015

Transnistrian legislative election, 2015
Transnistria
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All 43 seats to the Supreme Council
22 seats needed for a majority
Turnout 48.3%
  First party Second party Third party
  Mikhail Burla Portrait.png
Leader Mikhail Burla Dmitry Soin, Aleksandr Gorelovskiy Oleg Khorzhan
Party Renewal Proriv PCP
Leader since 2012
Last election 25 1 1
Seats won 33 0 1
Seat change Increase8 Decrease1 Steady

  Fourth party
  Tetyana Mykhailivna Turanska Portrait.png
Leader Tatiana Turanskaya
Party Independent
Leader since 2013
Last election 16
Seats won 8
Seat change Decrease8

Speaker before election

Mikhail Burla
Renewal

Elected Speaker

Vadim Krasnoselski


Mikhail Burla
Renewal

Vadim Krasnoselski

Legislative elections were held in Transnistria on 29 November 2015, alongside municipal elections.

The 43 seats of the Supreme Council are elected in single-member constituencies using first-past-the-post voting.

A total of 138 candidates contested the elections.

Overall turnout was 48.3%, with the Camenca District reporting the highest turnout of 54.0%. The lowest turnout was in the city of Bender, with a turnout of only 42.7%.

Renewal won 33 out of 43 seats in the Supreme Council, maintaining their status as a majority government.Mikhail Burla, the leader of Renewal, was re-elected in constituency #34, as was Oleg Khorzhan, the leader of the Pridnestrovie Communist Party, in constituency #40 (Tiraspol).

On 23 December 2015, Vadim Krasnoselski, who was elected in constituency #7, was elected Speaker.



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