Vladimir Mazur, by a wide margin from other candidates, won the election of the governor of the Tomsk region. According to the Regional Electoral Committee, 100% of the protocols have been processed, including remote electronic voting (DEG).
After processing 100% of the protocols, the United Russia candidate, Vladimir Mazur, who was previously appointed acting governor, won 84.94% of the vote during the elections. This is 198,829 voters.
Regional Duma deputy Galina Nemtseva (“A Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth”) won 6.08% of the votes following processing all the ballots. 14,243 people voted for her.
Andrey Petrov (KPRF), a deputy of the Tomsk Duma, has 12,438 votes, or 5.31% of the total number of voters.
4,938 votes (2.11%) belong to the director of the law firm Viktor Grinev (Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice).
Po information election commission of the Tomsk region, in total, 230,448 residents out of approximately 750,000 voters took part in the gubernatorial elections. These results also take into account those who voted remotely, but there was no information on the total turnout yet.
Voting in the early elections of the governor of the Tomsk region took place 10 and 11 September. The counting of votes took place following 20:00 Sunday.
Independent observers didn’t see significant violations in the process of holding early elections of the governor of the Tomsk region. However, they reported regarding problems with video surveillance.
Biography of Vladimir Mazur
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazur was born on June 19, 1966 in the village of Krutolozhny, Pervomaisky District, Tomsk Region. After school, he graduated from vocational school with a degree in gas and electric welder. In 1992, he graduated from TSU with a degree in jurisprudence, and in 2003, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Civil Service.
In 1992-2004, he worked as a lawyer and deputy director in various enterprises in Tomsk, Kemerovo and Moscow. In 2005 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic “The geopolitical potential of Western Siberia in the regional development of Russia.”
In 2004-2007, Mazur was Deputy Mayor of Tomsk for Information Policy, Chairman of the Committee for Public Relations and Information Policy of the Tomsk Administration. At that time, the city administration was headed by Alexander Makarov. He was arrested in December 2006 and charged with several crimes.
In 2008-2011, Vladimir Mazur worked for OAO Zapsibgazprom. And in 2011, he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Tyumen Region for investment policy, ecology and subsoil use.
Since 2012, Mazur has been the head of the administration of the city of Tobolsk, and since 2019 he has worked in the Kaluga region: deputy governor, first deputy governor.
In 2020, he became Deputy Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Domestic Policy. Supervised issues of local self-government.
On May 10, 2022, Vladimir Mazur was appointed Acting Governor of the Tomsk Region.
Mazur is married and has five children.